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Famous British Quotes
'It is so pleasant to come across people more stupid than ourselves. We love them at once for being so'.. Jerome K Jerome
'I hate the word `hate`.'.. Peter Cushing
'No legacy is so rich as honesty.'.. William Shakespeare
'Music and woman I cannot but give way to, whatever my business is.'.. Samuel Pepys
'Happiness can exist only in acceptance.'.. George Orwell
'Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught'.. Oscar Wilde
'Suspense is worse than disappointment.'.. Robert Burns
'Successful investing is anticipating the anticipations of others.'.. John Maynard Keynes
'Happiness never lays its finger on its pulse.'.. Adam Smith
'Men love in haste, but they detest at leisure.'.. Lord Byron
'A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty'.. Winston Churchill
'There is no such thing as liberty. You only change one sort of domination for another. All we can do is to choose our master.'.. D H Lawrence
'The disease which inflicts bureaucracy and what they usually die from is routine'.. John Stuart Mill
'How long was I in the army? Five foot eleven.'.. Spike Milligan
'Flying is learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.'.. Douglas Adams
'Art is our chief means of breaking bread with the dead.'.. W H Auden
'If I were compelled to choose between living in west bromwich or florence I would make straight for west bromwich'.. J B Priestley
'Conceit is the finest armour a man can wear.'.. Jerome K Jerome
'On the outskirts of every agony sits some observant fellow who points.'.. Virginia Woolf
'I find Cambridge an asylum, in every sense of the word.'.. A E Housman
'I'm a classic example of all humorists - only funny when I'm working'.. Peter Sellers
'One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes a revolution in order to establish a dictatorship'.. George Orwell
'Great countries are those that produce great people.'.. Benjamin Disraeli
'It is an old maxim of mine that when you have excluded the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.'.. Arthur Conan Doyle
'In all intellectual debates, both sides tend to be correct in what they affirm, and wrong in what they deny'.. John Stuart Mill
'Be thine own palace, or the world's thy jail.'.. John Donne
'From the middle of life onward, only he remains vitally alive who is ready to die with life'.. Samuel Johnson
'Be not afraid of greatness: some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them'.. William Shakespeare
'Some people are born to lift heavy weights, some are born to juggle golden balls'.. Max Beerbohm
'Commerce changes the fate and genius of nations.'.. Thomas Gray