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Famous British Quotes
'No benevolent man ever lost altogether the fruits of his benevolence.'.. Adam Smith
'We wander for distraction, but we travel for fulfillment.'.. Hilaire Belloc
'I find it rather easy to portray a businessman. Being bland, rather cruel and incompetent comes naturally to me'.. John Cleese
'Be thine own palace, or the world's thy jail.'.. John Donne
'He who stops being better stops being good.'.. Oliver Cromwell
'English consists entirely of foreign words pronounced wrongly'.. Bob Hope
'Life is generally something that happens elsewhere.'.. Alan Bennett
'Like the measles, love is most dangerous when it comes late in life.'.. Lord Byron
'My favourite musical instrument is the telephone'.. Quentin Crisp
'I love not man the less, but Nature more.'.. Lord Byron
'The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter.'.. Winston Churchill
'Confidence is a plant of slow growth in an aged heart.'.. William Pitt (The Younger)
'Assassination is the extreme form of censorship.'.. George Bernard Shaw
'I always arrive late at the office, but I make up for it by leaving early.'.. Charles Lamb
'The saddest thing I can imagine is to get used to luxury.'.. Charlie Chaplin
'I never deliberately set out to shock, but when people don't walk out of my plays I think there is something wrong.'.. John Osborne
'Spoon feeding in the long run teaches us nothing but the shape of the spoon.'.. E M Forster
'I am not against hasty marriages where a mutual flame is fanned by an adequate income'.. Wilkie Collins
'Pleasure is none, if not diversified.'.. John Donne
'Everything's complicated, even those things that seem flat in their bleakness or sadness'.. Nick Hornby
'Art, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere.'.. GK Chesterton
'The more you understand something, I think the more you can enjoy it.'.. Ricky Gervais
'The greatest scholars are not usually the wisest people.'.. Geoffrey Chaucer
'Memorial services are the cocktail parties of the geriatric set.'.. Harold Macmillan
'I don't know why I should have to learn Algebra... I'm never likely to go there.'.. Billy Connolly
'All mankind... being all equal and independent, no one ought to harm another in his life, health, liberty or possessions.'.. John Locke
'What worries you, masters you.'.. John Locke
'People seldom improve when they have no other model but themselves to copy'.. Oliver Goldsmith
'Every absurdity has a champion to defend it.'.. Oliver Goldsmith
'Listen to many, speak to a few.'.. William Shakespeare