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Famous British Quotes
'It is our responsibilities, not ourselves, that we should take seriously.'.. Peter Ustinov
'You cannot teach old dogs new tricks.'.. Joseph Chamberlain
'There is only one religion, though there are a hundred versions of it.'.. George Bernard Shaw
'Having one child makes you a parent; having two you are a referee.'.. David Frost
'By indignities men come to dignities.'.. Sir Francis Bacon
'If I wasnt an actor I would probably be a psychopath'.. Terence Stamp
'Boredom is the legitimate kingdom of the philanthropic.'.. Virginia Woolf
'A woman uses her intelligence to find reasons to support her intuition'.. GK Chesterton
'Oh the nerves, the nerves; the mysteries of this machine called man! Oh the little that unhinges it, poor creatures that we are!'.. Charles Dickens
'I am in that temper that if I were under water I would scarcely kick to come to the top'.. John Keats
'Bores can be divided into two classes; those who have their own particular subject, and those who do not need a subject.'.. A A Milne
'To wait idly is the worst of conditions.'.. Robert Falcon Scott
'Nothing wilts faster than laurels that have been rested upon.'.. Percy Bysshe Shelley
'Insecurity, commonly regarded as a weakness in normal people, is the basic tool of the actor's trade'.. Miranda Richardson
'Life is nothing but a competition to be the criminal rather than the victim.'.. Bertrand Russell
'Every great person is always being helped by everybody; for their gift is to get good out of all things and all persons.'.. John Ruskin
'I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires, rather than in attempting to satisfy them.'.. John Stuart Mill
'The very essence of instinct is that it's followed independently of reason.'.. Charles Darwin
'A puritan is a person who pours righteous indignation into the wrong things'.. GK Chesterton
'Better not be at all than not be noble.'.. Alfred Lord Tennyson
'The Welsh are all actors. It's only the bad ones who become professional.'.. Richard Burton
'In politics, what begins in fear usually ends in failure.'.. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
'There are only two styles of portrait painting; the serious and the smirk.'.. Charles Dickens
'A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty'.. Winston Churchill
'I don't need you to remind me of my age. I have a bladder to do that for me.'.. Stephen Fry
'For all right judgment of any man or things it is useful, nay, essential, to see his good qualities before pronouncing on his bad.'.. Thomas Carlyle
'There is a pleasure in being mad which none but madmen know.'.. John Dryden
'Laws are like cobwebs, which may catch small flies, but let wasps and hornets break through'.. Jonathan Swift
'Actually american football is a lot like rugby but why do they keep on having all those committee meetings?'.. Winston Churchill
'For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbors and laugh at them in our turn?'.. Jane Austen