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Famous British Quotes
'Great men are seldom over-scrupulous in the arrangement of their attire.'.. Charles Dickens
'Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.'.. George Bernard Shaw
'Boldness is a mask for fear, however great.'.. John Dryden
'Genius not only diagnoses the situation but supplies the answers.'.. Robert Graves
'No battle is worth fighting except the last one.'.. Enoch Powell
'In Italy the whole country is a theatre and the worst actors are on the stage'.. George Bernard Shaw
'He was one of those men who possess almost every gift, except the gift of the power to use them.'.. Charles Kingsley
'There is a pleasure in being mad which none but madmen know.'.. John Dryden
'The British tourist is always happy abroad as long as the natives are waiters'.. Robert Morley
'Never keep up with the Jones's. Drag them down to your level instead'.. Quentin Crisp
'I like to give my inhibitions a bath now and then.'.. Oliver Reed
'I'm a hero with coward's legs.'.. Spike Milligan
'There seem to me to be very few facts, at least ascertainable facts, in politics'.. Robert Peel
'Every saint has a past and every sinner has a future.'.. Oscar Wilde
'It is always the best policy to speak the truth, unless, of course, you are an exceptionally good lia'.. Jerome K Jerome
'He who laughs most, learns best.'.. John Cleese
'A man, as a general rule, owes very little to what he is born with - a man is what he makes of himself'.. Alexander Graham Bell
'Oh the nerves, the nerves; the mysteries of this machine called man! Oh the little that unhinges it, poor creatures that we are!'.. Charles Dickens
'To every action there is always opposed an equal reaction.'.. Isaac Newton
'Poverty of course is no disgrace, but it is damned annoying.'.. William Pitt (The Younger)
'Words easy to be understood do often hit the mark; when high and learned ones do only pierce the air'.. John Bunyan
'All money is a matter of belief.'.. Adam Smith
'I have measured out my life with coffee spoons.'.. T S Eliot
'All significant truths are private truths. As they become public they cease to become truths; they become facts, or at best, part of the public character; or at worst, catchwords.'.. T S Eliot
'God never made His work for man to mend.'.. John Dryden
'A good thing never ends.'.. Mick Jagger
'Man tends to increase at a greater rate than his means of subsistence.'.. Charles Darwin
'If you want to eat well in England, eat three breakfasts.'.. Somerset Maugham
'The silliest woman can manage a clever man; but it needs a very clever woman to manage a fool.'.. Rudyard Kipling
'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