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Famous British Quotes
'A neurosis is a secret that you don't know you are keeping.'.. Kenneth Tynan
'Every dog must have his day.'.. Jonathan Swift
'Our incomes are like our shoes; if too small, they gall and pinch us; but if too large, they cause us to stumble and to trip.'.. John Locke
'Twin-sister of Religion, Selfishness.'.. Percy Bysshe Shelley
'Progress everywhere today does seem to come so very heavily disguised as Chaos'.. Joyce Grenfell
'I think people should be free to engage in any sexual practices they choose; they should draw the line at goats though.'.. Elton John
'What really matters is what you do with what you have.'.. H G Wells
'A dirty joke is a sort of mental rebellion.'.. George Orwell
'In our time political speech and writing are largely the defense of the indefensible'.. George Orwell
'You shall judge a man by his foes as well as by his friends.'.. Joseph Conrad
'History is a cyclic poem written by time upon the memories of man'.. Percy Bysshe Shelley
'An aim in life is the only fortune worth finding.'.. Robert Louis Stevenson
''May my last breath be drawn from a pipe and exhaled in a pun''.. Charles Lamb
'To an ordinary human being, love means nothing if it does not mean loving some people more than others'.. George Orwell
'They say eyes clear with age.'.. Philip Larkin
'Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not; a sense of humor to console him for what he is.'.. Sir Francis Bacon
'One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making new discoveries'.. A A Milne
'animals have the vowel sounds; man only can utter consonants'.. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
'When you choose your friends, don't be short-changed by choosing personality over character.'.. Somerset Maugham
'I went window shopping today! I bought four windows.'.. Tommy Cooper
'That great Cathedral space which was childhood.'.. Virginia Woolf
'I am not a heavy drinker. I can sometimes go for hours without touching a drop.'.. Noel Coward
'Deer hunting would be a fine sport if only the deer had guns'.. W S Gilbert
'Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other.'.. Edmund Burke
'I don't believe one grows older. I think that what happens early on in life is that at a certain age one stands still and stagnates.'.. T S Eliot
'It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend.'.. John Dryden
'America: It's like Britain, only with buttons.'.. Ringo Starr
'Always be a little kinder than necessary.'.. J M Barrie
'Difficulties are just things to overcome'.. Ernest Shackleton
'True happiness consists not in the multitude of friends, but in the worth and choice.'.. Ben Jonson