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Famous British Quotes
'It's not wise to violate rules until you know how to observe them.'.. T S Eliot
'In politics, strangely enough, the best way to play your cards is to lay them face upwards on the table'.. H G Wells
'Every man's memory is his private literature.'.. Aldous Huxley
'Don't clap too hard - it's a very old building.'.. John Osborne
'I`ve arrived, and to prove it, I`m here.'.. Max Bygraves
'No man is useless while he has a friend.'.. Robert Louis Stevenson
'He was gifted with the sly, sharp instinct for self-preservation that passes for wisdom among the rich.'.. Evelyn Waugh
'Unintelligent people always look for a scapegoat.'.. Ernest Bevin
'Originality is a thing we constantly clamour for, and constantly quarrel with.'.. Thomas Carlyle
'You will find in politics that you are much exposed to the attribution of false motive. Never complain and never explain'.. Stanley Baldwin
'Never read print, it spoils one's eye for the ball.'.. W G Grace
'Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught'.. Oscar Wilde
'Discretion is the perfection of reason, and a guide to us in all the duties of life.'.. Walter Scott
'In general, pride is at the bottom of all great mistakes.'.. John Ruskin
'No man is regular in his attendance at the House of Commons until he is married.'.. Benjamin Disraeli
'A neurosis is a secret that you don't know you are keeping.'.. Kenneth Tynan
'I can make a lord, but only God can make a gentleman.'.. James I
'I'm not afraid of death but I am afraid of dying. Pain can be alleviated by morphine but the pain of social ostracism cannot be taken away'.. Derek Jarman
'Now that I know what I want, I don't have to hold on to it quite so much.'.. Lucien Freud
'I am certainly an ought and not a must.'.. E M Forster
'There is a wisdom of the head, and a wisdom of the heart.'.. Charles Dickens
'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
'Man is an animal that makes bargains: no other animal does this - no dog exchanges bones with another.'.. Adam Smith
''Tis love that makes the world go round'.. Charles Dickens
'Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.'.. Winston Churchill
'Infamy! Infamy! They've all got it in for me!'.. Kenneth Williams
'All great truths begin as blasphemies.'.. George Bernard Shaw
'When a society has to resort to the lavatory for its humour the writing is on the wall'.. Alan Bennett
'Exhilaration is that feeling you get just after a great idea hits you, and just before you realize what`s wrong with it.'.. Rex Harrison
'Look twice before you leap.'.. Charlotte Bronte