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Famous British Quotes
'I have a great mind to believe in Christianity for the mere pleasure of fancying I may be damned'.. Lord Byron
'I don't believe that the public knows what it wants; this is the conclusion that I have drawn from my career.'.. Charlie Chaplin
'An unexciting truth may be eclipsed by a thrilling lie.'.. Aldous Huxley
'A woman's guess is much more accurate than a man's certainty.'.. Rudyard Kipling
'Lawyers, I suppose, were children once.'.. Charles Lamb
'Ours is an excessively conscious age. We know so much, we feel so little.'.. D H Lawrence
'There's no use doing a kindness if you do it a day too late.'.. Charles Kingsley
'I am not against hasty marriages where a mutual flame is fanned by an adequate income'.. Wilkie Collins
'The world is a stage, but the play is badly cast.'.. Oscar Wilde
'Modesty seldom resides in a breast that is not enriched with nobler virtues.'.. Oliver Goldsmith
'The one phrase imperative to know in any foreign language is My friend will pay'.. Alan Whicker
'Sometimes the first duty of intelligent men is the restatement of the obvious'.. George Orwell
'When you reach the top, that's when the climb begins.'.. Michael Caine
'There might be 1 finger on the button, but there will be 15 fingers on the safety catch'.. Harold Macmillan
'If I could I would always work in silence and obscurity, and let my efforts be known by their results.'.. Emily Bronte
'If history were taught in the form of stories, it would never be forgotten'.. Rudyard Kipling
'By indignities men come to dignities.'.. Sir Francis Bacon
'Pride the first peer and president of hell.'.. Daniel Defoe
'I have a face like the behind of an elephant.'.. Charles Laughton
'Cities, like cats, will reveal themselves at night.'.. Rupert Brooke
'The truth that is suppressed by friends is the readiest weapon of the enemy.'.. Robert Louis Stevenson
'A perpetual holiday is a good working definition of hell.'.. George Bernard Shaw
'Greenwich possesses the best air, the best prospect and the best conversation'.. Daniel Defoe
'Everyone seems to fear dying alone. I have never understood this - who wants to die and be polite at the same time'.. Quentin Crisp
'I've always said if you want to outwit an Englishman touch him when he doesn't want to be touched'.. Julian Barnes
'Dancing is the poetry of the foot.'.. John Dryden
'It is the test of a good religion whether you can joke about it.'.. GK Chesterton
'Proud people breed sad sorrows for themselves.'.. Emily Bronte
'The martyr sacrifices themselves entirely in vain. Or rather not in vain; for they make the narrow narrower'.. Florence Nightingale
'He who rejects change is the architect of decay. The only human institution which rejects progress is the cemetery'.. Harold Wilson