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Famous British Quotes
'A man does not know what he is saying until he knows what he is not saying'.. GK Chesterton
'I can take any amount of criticism as long as its unqualifed praise'.. Noel Coward
'You should not take a fellow eight years old and make him swear to never kiss the girls'.. Robert Browning
'Humour is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.'.. Virginia Woolf
'Never trust a man, who when left alone with a tea cosey... Doesn't try it on.'.. Billy Connolly
'Mad Dogs and Englishmen go out in the midday sun'.. Noel Coward
'In times of joy, all of us wished we possessed a tail we could wag.'.. W H Auden
'We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another'.. Jonathan Swift
'We should have a great fewer disputes in the world if words were taken for what they are, the signs of our ideas only, and not for things themselves.'.. John Locke
'If we don't end war, war will end us.'.. H G Wells
'A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.'.. Douglas Adams
'May you live every day of your life.'.. Jonathan Swift
'Their's not to make reply, Their's not to reason why, Their's but to do and die'.. Alfred Lord Tennyson
'If we do not maintain justice, justice will not maintain us.'.. Sir Francis Bacon
'Sometimes when you're drunk you can see better.'.. Damien Hirst
'The greatest pleasure I know is to do a good action by stealth and have it found out by accident.'.. Charles Lamb
'It was such a lovely day I thought it was a pity to get up'.. Somerset Maugham
'Europe's the mayonnaise, but America supplies the good old lobster.'.. D H Lawrence
'Live as long as you may, the first twenty years are the longest half of your life.'.. Robert Southey
'Someone told me that each equation I included in the book would halve the sales.'.. Stephen Hawking
'A public schoolboy must be acceptable at a dance and invaluable in a shipwreck'.. Alan Bennett
'Dunblane Cathedral - I know not of anything so perfect in its simplicity'.. John Ruskin
'The truth is really an ambition which is beyond us.'.. Peter Ustinov
'It's all right letting yourself go, as long as you can get yourself back.'.. Mick Jagger
'At fifty everyone has the face he deserves.'.. George Orwell
'I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat.'.. Winston Churchill
'There is no education like adversity.'.. Benjamin Disraeli
'Democracy means government by discussion, but it is only effective if you can stop people talking'.. Clement Attlee
'Life is a comedy for those who think... and a tragedy for those who feel'.. Horace Walpole
'Nature, to be commanded, must be obeyed.'.. Sir Francis Bacon