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Famous British Quotes
'What loneliness is more lonely than distrust?'.. George Eliot
'A man's true character comes out when he's drunk.'.. Charlie Chaplin
'Humour is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.'.. Virginia Woolf
'Enlightened people seldom or never possess a sense of responsibility'.. George Orwell
'Be not afraid of greatness: some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them'.. William Shakespeare
'Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely been detected.'.. Oscar Wilde
'Laziness has become the chief characteristic of journalism, displacing incompetence.'.. Sir Kingsley Amis
'The pollen count, now that’s a difficult job. Especially if you’ve got hay fever'.. Milton Jones
'There are strings in the human heart that had better not be vibrated.'.. Charles Dickens
'I don't watch television, I think it destroys the art of talking about oneself.'.. Stephen Fry
'Golf is a day spent in a round of strenuous idleness.'.. William Wordsworth
'I think it is the responsibility of a citizen of any country to say what he thinks.'.. Harold Pinter
'Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man'.. Sir Francis Bacon
'If you are ever in doubt as to whether to kiss a pretty girl, always give her the benefit of the doubt.'.. Thomas Carlyle
'There is nothing constant in this world but inconsistency.'.. Jonathan Swift
'I feel sure that no girl would go to the altar if she knew all.'.. Queen Victoria
'Good and bad men are less than they seem.'.. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
'If you're going to make rubbish, be the best rubbish in it.'.. Richard Burton
'I sometimes feel that more lousy dishes are presented under the banner of pate than any other.'.. Sir Kingsley Amis
'That we must all die, we always knew; I wish I had remembered it sooner.'.. Samuel Johnson
'Money can't buy you happiness but it does bring you a more pleasant form of misery.'.. Spike Milligan
'A family with the wrong members in control; that, perhaps, is as near as one can come to describing England in a phrase.'.. George Orwell
'All great truths begin as blasphemies.'.. George Bernard Shaw
'In human relationships, kindness and lies are worth a thousand truths'.. Graham Greene
'Language ought to be the joint creation of poets and manual workers'.. George Orwell
'There are only two styles of portrait painting; the serious and the smirk.'.. Charles Dickens
'If they make it illegal to wear the veil at work, bee keepers are going to be furious'.. Milton Jones
'Public opinion is a compound of folly, weakness, prejudice, wrong feeling, right feeling, obstinacy, and newspaper paragraphs'.. Robert Peel
'If you think squash is a competitive activity, try flower arranging.'.. Alan Bennett
'Failures are finger posts on the road to achievement.'.. C S Lewis