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Famous British Quotes
'A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul.'.. George Bernard Shaw
'Accursed be he that first invented war.'.. Christopher Marlowe
'A cricketer's life is a life of splendid freedom, healthy effort, endless variety, and delightful good fellowship'.. W G Grace
'If you feel that life is one of Gods jokes there is still no reason not to make it a good oke'.. Kenneth Williams
'A platitude is simply a truth repeated till people get tired of hearing it.'.. Stanley Baldwin
'Better belly burst than good liquor be lost.'.. Jonathan Swift
'History is a race between education and catastrophe.'.. H G Wells
'Carry out a random act of kindness, with no expectation of reward, safe in the knowledge that one day someone might do the same for you.'.. Diana Spencer
'War is evil, but it is often the lesser evil.'.. George Orwell
'It is so pleasant to come across people more stupid than ourselves. We love them at once for being so'.. Jerome K Jerome
'Take away love and our earth is a tomb.'.. Robert Browning
'A politician is a person with whose politics you don't agree; if you agree with him he's a statesman.'.. David Lloyd George
'I have never had problems with drugs. I have had problems with the police....'.. Keith Richards
'We are all here on earth to help others; what on earth the others are here for I don't know.'.. W H Auden
'My whole life is waiting for the questions to which I have prepared answers.'.. Sir Tom Stoppard
'England is not all the world.'.. Mary, Queen of Scots
'A yawn is a silent shout'.. GK Chesterton
'A woman can be anything the man who loves her would have her be.'.. J M Barrie
'The more you understand something, I think the more you can enjoy it.'.. Ricky Gervais
'I dont believe in God but I am very interested in Her'.. Arthur C Clarke
'When childhood dies, its corpses are called adults.'.. Brian Aldiss
'Dickens is one of those authors who are well worth stealing.'.. George Orwell
'Circumstances are beyond human control, but our conduct is in our own power.'.. Benjamin Disraeli
'Proof that God has an odd sense of humour - after inventing Haute Cuisine he gave it to the French'.. A A Gill
'A little sincerity is a dangerous thing, and a great deal of it is absolutely fatal'.. Oscar Wilde
'An aim in life is the only fortune worth finding.'.. Robert Louis Stevenson
'Human blunders usually do more to shape history than human wickedness.'.. A J P Taylor
'It's discouraging to think how many people are shocked by honesty and how few by deceit.'.. Noel Coward
'Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.'.. T S Eliot
'A gentleman is one who puts more into the world than he takes out'.. George Bernard Shaw