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Famous British Quotes
'I should prefer to have a politician who regularly went to a massage parlour than one who promised a laptop computer for every teacher.'.. A N Wilson
'Better to reign in hell than serve in heaven'.. John Milton
'Chester pleases my fancy more than any other place I ever saw'.. James Boswell
'I am prepared for the worst, but hope for the best.'.. Benjamin Disraeli
'Consciousness is an end in itself. We torture ourselves getting somewhere, and when we get there it is nowhere, for there is nowhere to get to.'.. D H Lawrence
'Early in life I had noticed that no event is ever correctly reported in a newspaper'.. George Orwell
'Good sense about trivialities is better than nonsense about things that matter'.. Max Beerbohm
'My only regret in life is that I did not drink more champagne'.. John Maynard Keynes
'It's very hard to be a gentleman and a writer.'.. Somerset Maugham
'Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown.'.. William Shakespeare
'Our greatest glory consists not in never failing, but in rising every time we fall'.. Oliver Goldsmith
'Love in all eight tones and all five semitones of the word's full octave.'.. Stephen Fry
'A laugh, to be joyous, must flow from a joyous heart, for without kindness, there can be no true joy'.. Thomas Carlyle
'If you are going through hell keep going'.. Winston Churchill
'Art is our chief means of breaking bread with the dead.'.. W H Auden
'What is easy is seldom excellent.'.. Samuel Johnson
'The best car safety device is a rear-view mirror with a cop in it'.. Dudley Moore
'Happiness is not a possession to be prized, it is a quality of thought, a state of mind.'.. Daphne du Maurier
'He who knows only his own side of the case knows little of that.'.. John Stuart Mill
'The greatest pleasure I know is to do a good action by stealth and have it found out by accident.'.. Charles Lamb
'The saddest thing I can imagine is to get used to luxury.'.. Charlie Chaplin
'Anything for the quick life, as the man said when he took the situation at the lighthouse'.. Charles Dickens
'There is a pleasure in being mad which none but madmen know.'.. John Dryden
'Everybody grows but me.'.. Queen Victoria
'All our discontents about what we want appeared to spring from the want of thankfulness for what we have.'.. Daniel Defoe
'Having one child makes you a parent; having two you are a referee.'.. David Frost
'Advertising is the rattling of a stick inside a swill bucket.'.. George Orwell
'Youth would be an ideal state if it came a little later in life'.. Herbert Henry Asquith
'For most of history, Anonymous was a woman.'.. Virginia Woolf
'The war between the sexes is the only one in which both sides regularly sleep with the enemy'.. Quentin Crisp