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Famous British Quotes
'I think you should take your job seriously, but not yourself - that is the best combination'.. Judi Dench
'It is not reasonable that those who gamble with men's lives should not stake their own.'.. H G Wells
'Consequences are unpitying.'.. George Eliot
'A man does not know what he is saying until he knows what he is not saying'.. GK Chesterton
'Thieves respect property - they merely wish it to become their property'.. GK Chesterton
'Where large sums of money are concerned, it is advisable to trust nobody'.. Agatha Christie
'Ideas shape the course of history.'.. John Maynard Keynes
'I am humble enough to know I have made mistakes but politically astute enough to know that I have forgotten what they are'.. Michael Heseltine
'It's difficult isn't it, when you're in a Mosque and everyone's praying and you really enjoy leapfrog'.. Milton Jones
'Certainly nothing is unnatural that is not physically impossible.'.. Richard Sheridan
'A dirty joke is a sort of mental rebellion.'.. George Orwell
'Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children.'.. George Bernard Shaw
'It is not real work unless you would rather be doing something else.'.. J M Barrie
'Ambition makes more trusty slaves than need.'.. Ben Jonson
'The mark of a good action is that it appears inevitable in retrospect.'.. Robert Louis Stevenson
'Necessity dispenseth with decorum.'.. Thomas Carlyle
'I'm not afraid of death but I am afraid of dying. Pain can be alleviated by morphine but the pain of social ostracism cannot be taken away'.. Derek Jarman
'All we need to make us really happy is something to be enthusiastic about.'.. Charles Kingsley
'It was such a lovely day I thought it was a pity to get up'.. Somerset Maugham
'The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you can see.'.. Winston Churchill
'Religion stands, the Church blocking the sun.'.. Stephen Spender
'Man is nature's sole mistake.'.. W S Gilbert
'Be yourself is about the worst advice you can give to some people.'.. J B Priestley
'Taste every fruit of every tree in the garden at least once. It is an insult to creation not to experience it fully. Temperance is wickedness'.. Stephen Fry
'Chastity - the most unnatural of all the sexual perversions.'.. Aldous Huxley
'Beauty is a short-lived tyranny.'.. George Bernard Shaw
'I've searched all the parks in all the cities and found no statues of committees'.. GK Chesterton
'Find enough clever things to say, and you're a Prime Minister; write them down and you're a Shakespeare'.. George Bernard Shaw
'We pay when old for the excesses of youth.'.. J B Priestley
'Better to go than sit around being a terrible old bore.'.. Auberon Waugh