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Famous British Quotes
'Bachelors have consciences, married men have wives.'.. Samuel Johnson
'Parents are the bones on which children cut their teeth.'.. Peter Ustinov
'Let everyone regulate his conduct... by the golden rule of doing to others as in similar circumstances we would have them do to us, and the path of duty will be clear before him.'.. William Wilberforce
'The boughs that bear most hang lowest.'.. David Garrick
'I'm a hero with coward's legs.'.. Spike Milligan
'I think it is the responsibility of a citizen of any country to say what he thinks.'.. Harold Pinter
'A real book is not one that we read, but one that reads us.'.. W H Auden
'What worries you, masters you.'.. John Locke
'You may travel the world over but you will find nowhere more beautiful; It is so restful, so colourful and so unspoilt (Tenby)'.. Augustus John
'A solitary laugh is often a laugh of superiority.'.. Graham Greene
'Fame often makes a writer vain, but seldom makes him proud.'.. W H Auden
'I find it rather easy to portray a businessman. Being bland, rather cruel and incompetent comes naturally to me'.. John Cleese
'Fashion is what you adopt when you dont know who you are'.. Quentin Crisp
'I have a face like the behind of an elephant.'.. Charles Laughton
'Such as we are made of, such we be.'.. William Shakespeare
'Difficulties are just things to overcome'.. Ernest Shackleton
'Nothing is more obstinate than a fashionable consensus.'.. Margaret Thatcher
'A poet can survive everything but a misprint.'.. Oscar Wilde
'War is a quarrel between two thieves too cowardly to fight their own battle.'.. Thomas Carlyle
'May you live every day of your life.'.. Jonathan Swift
'When a true genius appears, you can know him by this sign: that all the dunces are in a confederacy against him.'.. Jonathan Swift
'Money can't buy you happiness but it does bring you a more pleasant form of misery.'.. Spike Milligan
'So little done, so much to do.'.. Cecil Rhodes
'I'd the upbringing a nun would envy. Until I was fifteen I was more familiar with Africa than my own body'.. Joe Orton
'To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only meaning of life.'.. Robert Louis Stevenson
'It's not wise to violate rules until you know how to observe them.'.. T S Eliot
'Civilisation is the distance man has put between himself and his excreta'.. Brian Aldiss
'To cure the British disease with socialism was like trying to cure leukaemia with leeches'.. Margaret Thatcher
'There are hardly two things more peculiarly English than Welsh rarebit and Irish stew'.. GK Chesterton
'One might well say that mankind is divisible into two great classes: hosts and guests'.. Max Beerbohm