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Famous British Quotes
'If you feel depressed or let down my advice is to roast a chicken'.. Delia Smith
'We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience'.. George Bernard Shaw
'Ale, man, ale's the stuff to drink for fellows whom it hurts to think.'.. A E Housman
'Anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job.'.. Douglas Adams
'Ours is an excessively conscious age. We know so much, we feel so little.'.. D H Lawrence
'Who, being loved, is poor?'.. Oscar Wilde
'If you carry your childhood with you, you never become older.'.. Sir Tom Stoppard
'If there's no money in poetry, neither is there poetry in money.'.. Robert Graves
'Circumstances are beyond human control, but our conduct is in our own power.'.. Benjamin Disraeli
'The higher the building the lower the morals.'.. Noel Coward
'Oh, what a shock. My career must be slipping. This is the first time I've been available to pick up an award.'.. Michael Caine
'Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught'.. Oscar Wilde
'A week is a long time in politics.'.. Harold Wilson
'The only exercise I take is walking behind the coffins of friends who have taken too much exercise'.. Peter O’Toole
'The most conservative man in this world is the British trade unionist when you want to change him.'.. Ernest Bevin
'No man is regular in his attendance at the House of Commons until he is married.'.. Benjamin Disraeli
'Education begins the gentleman, but reading, good company and reflection must finish him.'.. John Locke
'A gentleman is one who puts more into the world than he takes out'.. George Bernard Shaw
'The world is a stage, but the play is badly cast.'.. Oscar Wilde
'Assassination has never changed the history of the world.'.. Benjamin Disraeli
'I don't think I am any good. If I thought I was any good, I wouldn't be.'.. John Betjeman
'I am one of those who would rather sink with faith than swim without it.'.. Stanley Baldwin
'Melancholy, indeed, should be diverted by every means but drinking.'.. Samuel Johnson
'They are most deceived that trusteth most in themselves.'.. Elizabeth I
'When a stupid man is doing something he is ashamed of, he always declares that it is his duty.'.. George Bernard Shaw
'Men! The only animal in the world to fear.'.. D H Lawrence
'Speed has never killed anyone, suddenly becoming stationary… that’s what gets you'.. Jeremy Clarkson
'I have frequently gained my first real insight into the character of parents by studying their children'.. Arthur Conan Doyle
'There's no use doing a kindness if you do it a day too late.'.. Charles Kingsley
'Nature, to be commanded, must be obeyed.'.. Sir Francis Bacon