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Famous British Quotes
'If you have men who will only come if they know there is a good road, I don't want them. I want men who will come if there is no road at all.'.. David Livingstone
'A puritan is a person who pours righteous indignation into the wrong things'.. GK Chesterton
'I've sometimes thought of marrying - and then I've thought again.'.. Noel Coward
'Nothing builds self-esteem and self-confidence like accomplishment'.. Thomas Carlyle
'Beware of the man who does not return your blow: he neither forgives you nor allows you to forgive yourself'.. George Bernard Shaw
'I have long held the view that if a Vet cannot catch his patient there is not much to worry about'.. James Herriot
'To myself I am only a child playing on the beach, while vast oceans of truth lie undiscovered before me'.. Isaac Newton
'There were many times my pants were so thin I could sit on a dime and tell if it was heads or tails.'.. Jonathan Swift
'Anybody who's been married to a man for forty odd years knows he's all talk'.. Michael Parkinson
'All the flower children were as alike as a congress of accountants and about as interesting.'.. Sir John Mortimer
'Everytime a child says 'I don't believe in fairies' there is a a little fairy somewhere that falls down dead.'.. J M Barrie
'Now if the harvest is over, And the world cold, Give me the bonus of laughter, As I lose hold'.. John Betjeman
'The one great principle of English Law is to make business for itself'.. Charles Dickens
'Strange to see how a good dinner and feasting reconciles everybody.'.. Samuel Pepys
'It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend.'.. John Dryden
'My body has certainly wandered a good deal, but I have an uneasy suspicion that my mind has not wandered enough.'.. Noel Coward
'Talk that does not end in any kind of action is better suppressed altogether.'.. Thomas Carlyle
'There can be no liberty unless there is economic liberty.'.. Margaret Thatcher
'A man's friendships are one of the best measures of his worth.'.. Charles Darwin
'Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few.'.. Winston Churchill
'Women want love to be a novel, men a short story.'.. Daphne du Maurier
'I went into the business for the money, and the art grew out of it. If people are disillusioned by that remark, I can't help it. It's the truth.'.. Charlie Chaplin
'Having a great intellect is no path to being happy.'.. Stephen Fry
'There is no me. I do not exist. There used to be a me but I had it surgically removed'.. Peter Sellers
'The performances you have in your head are always much better than the performances on stage'.. Maggie Smith
'I don't know many singers who actually do like the sound of their own voice'.. Roger Daltrey
'You can get an Englishman to do anything simply by whispering in his ear "I know your guilty secret"'.. P G Wodehouse
'Life has a practice of living you, if you don't live it.'.. Philip Larkin
'I don't need you to remind me of my age. I have a bladder to do that for me.'.. Stephen Fry
'Life could be wonderful if people would leave you alone.'.. Charlie Chaplin