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Famous British Quotes
'Education: the inculcation of the incomprehensible into the indifferent by the incompetent'.. John Maynard Keynes
'We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience'.. George Bernard Shaw
'Quality is never an accident. It is always the result of intelligent effort.'.. John Ruskin
'The most important of my discoveries have been suggested to me by my failures'.. Humphry Davy
'Architecture aims at Eternity.'.. Christopher Wren
'Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel.'.. Samuel Johnson
'I can always tell when the mother in law's coming to stay; the mice throw themselves on the traps.'.. Les Dawson
'There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.'.. Benjamin Disraeli
'This diamond has so many carats it's almost a turnip.'.. Richard Burton
'I can't stand innuendo. When I see one in a script I whip it out immediately'.. Kenneth Williams
'The light, that lies In woman's eyes, Has been my heart's undoing.'.. Thomas More
'Motherhood: All love begins and ends there.'.. Robert Browning
'A diplomat these days in nothing, but a head waiter who is allowed to sit down occasionally.'.. Peter Ustinov
'Progress is not an illusion, it happens, but it is slow and invariably disappointing'.. George Orwell
'Although it is not true that all conservatives are stupid people, it is true that most stupid people are conservative'.. John Stuart Mill
'My reputation grows with every failure.'.. George Bernard Shaw
'Promises and pie-crust are made to be broken.'.. Jonathan Swift
'An agent is a person who is sore because an actor gets 90% of what they make.'.. Elton John
'We often repent of our first thoughts, and scarce ever of our second'.. Horace Walpole
'The martyr sacrifices themselves entirely in vain. Or rather not in vain; for they make the narrow narrower'.. Florence Nightingale
'It is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done; it is a far, far better rest that I go to, than I have ever known.'.. Charles Dickens
'A horse is dangerous at both ends and uncomfortable in the middle.'.. Ian Fleming
'This is the first age that's ever paid much attention to the future, which is a little ironic since we may not have one'.. Arthur C Clarke
'Death is the sound of distant thunder at a picnic.'.. W H Auden
'When a man is wrapped up in himself, he makes a pretty small package'.. John Ruskin
'The very essence of instinct is that it's followed independently of reason.'.. Charles Darwin
'I do not want a husband who honours me as a queen, if he does not love me as a woman.'.. Elizabeth I
'The world is a place on which England is to be found'.. GK Chesterton
'The truth is really an ambition which is beyond us.'.. Peter Ustinov
'I always said God was against art and I still believe it.'.. Edward Elgar