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Famous British Quotes
'I don't watch television, I think it destroys the art of talking about oneself.'.. Stephen Fry
'Quality is never an accident. It is always the result of intelligent effort.'.. John Ruskin
'Better a witty fool than a foolish wit.'.. William Shakespeare
'Riches are a good hand maiden, but a poor mistress.'.. Sir Francis Bacon
'I sometimes feel that more lousy dishes are presented under the banner of pate than any other.'.. Sir Kingsley Amis
'Childhood is measured out by sounds and smells and sights, before the dark hour of reason grows.'.. John Betjeman
'Marriage is one long conversation, chequered by disputes.'.. Robert Louis Stevenson
'Thousands have lived without love, not one without water.'.. W H Auden
'Incongruity is the mainspring of laughter.'.. Max Beerbohm
'The mark of a good action is that it appears inevitable in retrospect.'.. Robert Louis Stevenson
'Not what I have, but what I do is my kingdom.'.. Thomas Carlyle
'You know, I go to the theatre to be entertained. I don’t want to see plays about rape, sodomy and drug addiction...I can get all that at home'.. Peter Cook
'How much easier it is to be critical than to be correct.'.. Benjamin Disraeli
'If you're going to make rubbish, be the best rubbish in it.'.. Richard Burton
'Fond memory brings the light of other days around me.'.. Thomas More
'My neighbour asked if he could use my lawnmower and I told him of course he could, so long as he didn't take it out of my garden.'.. Eric Morecambe
'Ceremonies are different in every country, but true politeness is everywhere the same'.. Oliver Goldsmith
'The most happy marriage I can picture or imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman'.. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
'Somebody said to me, 'But the Beatles were anti-materialistic.' That's a huge myth. John and I literally used to sit down and say, 'Now, let's write a swimming pool.''.. Paul McCartney
'A woman that does a mans work is just a lazy cow'.. Jo Brand
'In every parting there is an image of death.'.. George Eliot
'Militant feminists, I take my hat off to them. They don't like that'.. Milton Jones
'Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing.'.. Oscar Wilde
'The mind that is wise mourns less for what age takes away; than what it leaves behind.'.. William Wordsworth
'But love's a malady without a cure.'.. John Dryden
'Nothing ever becomes real till it is experienced.'.. John Keats
'Keep your faith in God, but keep your powder dry.'.. Oliver Cromwell
'Pessimist: One who, when he has the choice of two evils, chooses both'.. Oscar Wilde
'The shelf life of the modern hardback writer is somewhere between the milk and the yogurt'.. Sir John Mortimer
'It is widely held that too much wine will dull a man's desire. Indeed it will in a dull man'.. John Osborne