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Famous British Quotes
'Parliament must not be told a direct untruth, but it's quite possible to allow them to mislead themselves'.. Norman Tebbit
'Europe's the mayonnaise, but America supplies the good old lobster.'.. D H Lawrence
'Ending a sentence with a preposition is something up with which I will not put.'.. Winston Churchill
'Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will make me go in a corner and cry by myself for hours.'.. Eric Idle
'But the answer to how to live is to stop thinking about it. And just to live. But you're doing that anyway. However you intellectualise it, you still just live.'.. Damien Hirst
'The British tourist is always happy abroad as long as the natives are waiters'.. Robert Morley
'The perfect love affair is one which is conducted entirely by post.'.. George Bernard Shaw
'Endurance is patience concentrated.'.. Thomas Carlyle
'Catholics are just protestants protesting against protestantism'.. D H Lawrence
'Until you understand a writer's ignorance, presume yourself ignorant of his understanding'.. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
'It is most unwise for people in love to marry.'.. George Bernard Shaw
'I'm always looking for meaningful one-night stands'.. Dudley Moore
'Necessity dispenseth with decorum.'.. Thomas Carlyle
'What loneliness is more lonely than distrust?'.. George Eliot
'Death is just life's next big adventure.'.. J K Rowling
'There is a woman at the beginning of all great things.'.. Alan Bleasdale
'I wonder what fool it was that first invented kissing.'.. Jonathan Swift
'Neither a borrower nor a lender be.'.. William Shakespeare
'Regrets are the natural property of grey hairs.'.. Charles Dickens
'The fact that logic cannot satisfy us awakens an almost insatiable hunger for the irrational.'.. A N Wilson
'If Hitler invaded hell I would make at least a favorable reference to the devil in the House of Commons.'.. Winston Churchill
'Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same.'.. Oscar Wilde
'Ideas shape the course of history.'.. John Maynard Keynes
'If at first you don’t succeed, failure may be your style'.. Quentin Crisp
'We give advice by the bucket, but take it by the grain.'.. Sir Tom Stoppard
'I'd sooner be called a successful crook than a destitute monarch.'.. Charlie Chaplin
'A puritan is a person who pours righteous indignation into the wrong things'.. GK Chesterton
'Writing is the supreme solace.'.. Somerset Maugham
'In the long history of humankind (and animal kind, too) those who learned to collaborate and improvise most effectively have prevailed.'.. Charles Darwin
'The more we elaborate our means of communication, the less we communicate'.. J B Priestley