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Famous British Quotes
'I can always tell when the mother in law's coming to stay; the mice throw themselves on the traps.'.. Les Dawson
'How much easier it is to be critical than to be correct.'.. Benjamin Disraeli
'Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.'.. Benjamin Disraeli
'I know not, sir, whether Bacon wrote the works of Shakespeare, but if he did not, it seems to me that he missed the opportunity of his life.'.. J M Barrie
'Authority has every reason to fear the skeptic, for authority can rarely survive in the face of doubt'.. Vita Sackville-West
'Be yourself is about the worst advice you can give to some people.'.. J B Priestley
'Here is my first principle of foreign policy: good government at home'.. W E Gladstone
'Men may be popular without being ambitious, but there is hardly an ambitious man who does not try to be popular.'.. Lord North
'Better the rudest work that tells a story or records a fact, than the richest without meaning'.. John Ruskin
'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
'Almost all crime is due to the repressed desire for aesthetic expression.'.. Evelyn Waugh
'Nothing builds self-esteem and self-confidence like accomplishment'.. Thomas Carlyle
'I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many unsigned poems, was a woman'.. Virginia Woolf
'Even as a junkie I stayed true [to vegetarianism] - 'I shall have heroin, but I shan't have a hamburger.' What a sexy little paradox'.. Russell Brand
'If I could I would always work in silence and obscurity, and let my efforts be known by their results.'.. Emily Bronte
'Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal.'.. T S Eliot
'And yet to every bad there is a worse.'.. Thomas Hardy
'Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all'.. Alfred Lord Tennyson
'Having a great intellect is no path to being happy.'.. Stephen Fry
'The world is a stage, but the play is badly cast.'.. Oscar Wilde
'I love argument, I love debate. I don't expect anyone just to sit there and agree with me, that's not their job'.. Margaret Thatcher
'No one rises so high as he who knows not whither he is going.'.. Oliver Cromwell
'I am determined that my children shall be brought up in their father's religion, if they can find out what it is.'.. Charles Lamb
'If you tell the truth, you have infinite power supporting you; but if not, you have infinite power against you'.. Charles George Gordon
'Subdue your appetites, my dears, and you've conquered human nature.'.. Charles Dickens
'We first make our habits, and then our habits make us.'.. John Dryden
'You cannot teach old dogs new tricks.'.. Joseph Chamberlain
'Show me the man you honor, and I will know what kind of man you are.'.. Thomas Carlyle
'I wonder what fool it was that first invented kissing.'.. Jonathan Swift
'I love everything that's old, - old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wine'.. Oliver Goldsmith