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Famous British Quotes
'Regrets are the natural property of grey hairs.'.. Charles Dickens
'Strange to see how a good dinner and feasting reconciles everybody.'.. Samuel Pepys
'The trouble with children is that they are non-returnable'.. Quentin Crisp
'I have a face like the behind of an elephant.'.. Charles Laughton
'Art is the symbol of the two noblest human efforts: to construct and to refrain from destruction.'.. Evelyn Waugh
'It is better to lose health like a spendthrift than to waste it like a miser.'.. Robert Louis Stevenson
'In the old days men had the rack. Now they have the Press'.. Oscar Wilde
'In our time political speech and writing are largely the defense of the indefensible'.. George Orwell
'I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires, rather than in attempting to satisfy them.'.. John Stuart Mill
'Nothing that is worth knowing can be taught'.. Oscar Wilde
'Be yourself is about the worst advice you can give to some people.'.. J B Priestley
'Every harlot was a virgin once.'.. William Blake
'Life turned out much better than I thought. I knew after a little while that I could act.'.. Peter O’Toole
'He who rejects change is the architect of decay. The only human institution which rejects progress is the cemetery'.. Harold Wilson
'You and I come by road or rail, but economists travel on infrastructure'.. Margaret Thatcher
'The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter.'.. Winston Churchill
'Is there anything worn under the kilt? No, it's all in perfect working order.'.. Spike Milligan
'A celebrity is one who is known to many persons he is glad he doesn't know'.. Lord Byron
'I would die for my country but I could never let my country die for me'.. Neil Kinnock
'A yawn is a silent shout'.. GK Chesterton
'Acting is merely the art of keeping a large group of people from coughing.'.. Ralph Richardson
'A happy family is but an earlier heaven.'.. George Bernard Shaw
'I lost my job as a cricket commentator for saying “I don’t want to bore you with the details”'.. Milton Jones
'A woman is as young as her knees.'.. Mary Quant
'Live as long as you may, the first twenty years are the longest half of your life.'.. Robert Southey
'Life has a practice of living you, if you don't live it.'.. Philip Larkin
'Education begins the gentleman, but reading, good company and reflection must finish him.'.. John Locke
'There is no sin but ignorance.'.. Christopher Marlowe
'Patriots always talk of dying for their country but never of killing for their country'.. Bertrand Russell
'Men marry because they are tired; women, because they are curious; both are disappointed'.. Oscar Wilde