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Famous British Quotes
'A solitary laugh is often a laugh of superiority.'.. Graham Greene
'You don't have to be the Dalai Lama to tell people that life's about change'.. John Cleese
'Bachelors have consciences, married men have wives.'.. Samuel Johnson
'You'll find that empty vessels make the most sound'.. John Lydon (Johnny Rotten)
'I think fidelity is a good idea - now that I cant walk'.. Sir John Mortimer
'Take away love and our earth is a tomb.'.. Robert Browning
'If I had been around when Rubens was painting, I would have been revered as a fabulous model. Kate Moss? Well, she would have been the paintbrush.'.. Dawn French
'The profession of a prostitute is the only career in which the maximum income is paid to the newest apprentice'.. William Booth
'Pessimist: One who, when he has the choice of two evils, chooses both'.. Oscar Wilde
'The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit.'.. Somerset Maugham
'Speed has never killed anyone, suddenly becoming stationary… that’s what gets you'.. Jeremy Clarkson
'One who does not know when to die, does not know how to live.'.. John Ruskin
'A cricketer's life is a life of splendid freedom, healthy effort, endless variety, and delightful good fellowship'.. W G Grace
'One of the greatest problems of our time is that many are schooled but few are educated'.. Thomas More
'You may be as vicious about me as you please. You will only do me justice.'.. Richard Burton
'Nothing ever becomes real till it is experienced.'.. John Keats
'It is curious that every creed promises a paradise on death which is unthinkable for anyone of taste'.. Evelyn Waugh
'Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.'.. George Bernard Shaw
'Lawyers, I suppose, were children once.'.. Charles Lamb
'It is most unwise for people in love to marry.'.. George Bernard Shaw
'I have no intention of uttering my last words on stage. A couple of depraved young girls and room service will do me fine'.. Peter O’Toole
'Only mediocrity can be trusted to be always at its best.'.. Max Beerbohm
'One man's wage increase is another man's price increase.'.. Harold Wilson
'Life isn't black and white. It's a million gray areas, don't you find?'.. Ridley Scott
'Sooner or later everyone sits down to a banquet of consequences.'.. Robert Louis Stevenson
'Her virtue was that she said what she thought, her vice that what she thought didn't amount to much.'.. Peter Ustinov
'The light, that lies In woman's eyes, Has been my heart's undoing.'.. Thomas More
'There but for the grace of God goes God'.. Winston Churchill
'Every dog must have his day.'.. Jonathan Swift
'I think computer viruses should count as life. I think it says something about human nature that the only form of life we have created so far is purely destructive. We've created life in our own image.'.. Stephen Hawking