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Famous British Quotes
'Make yourself an honest man, and then you may be sure there is one less rascal in the world'.. Thomas Carlyle
'If you aren't in over your head, how do you know how tall you are?'.. T S Eliot
'It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious'.. Oscar Wilde
'England is not all the world.'.. Mary, Queen of Scots
'He travels best that knows when to return.'.. Thomas More
'The mind that is wise mourns less for what age takes away; than what it leaves behind.'.. William Wordsworth
'For my part, I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move.'.. Robert Louis Stevenson
'I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them.'.. Ian Fleming
'A toddling little girl is a centre of common feeling which makes the most dissimilar people understand each other.'.. George Eliot
'All the people like us are we, and everyone else is They.'.. Rudyard Kipling
'Idleness, like kisses, to be sweet must be stolen.'.. Jerome K Jerome
'You and I come by road or rail, but economists travel on infrastructure'.. Margaret Thatcher
'The only possible way there would be an uprising in this country would be if they banned caravanning and car boot sales'.. Victoria Wood
'All good things which exist are the fruits of originality.'.. John Stuart Mill
'The highest reward for a person's toil is not what they get for it, but what they become by it'.. John Ruskin
'However I dress it up, I was a spy and I am not proud of it'.. Christine Keeler
'The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good'.. Samuel Johnson
'Blessed is he who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed.'.. Jonathan Swift
'My Father had a profound influence on me, he was a lunatic.'.. Spike Milligan
'I had lunch with a chess champion the other day. I knew he was a chess champion because it took him 20 minutes to pass the salt.'.. Eric Sykes
'I think that making love is the best form of exercise.'.. Cary Grant
'If you don't know where you are going, any road will get you there.'.. Lewis Carroll
'Though lovers be lost love shall not.'.. Dylan Thomas
'Men think about women. Women think about what men think about them.'.. Peter Ustinov
'The aura given out by a person or object is as much a part of them as their flesh.'.. Lucien Freud
'The poetry of the earth is never dead.'.. John Keats
'Every war when it comes, or before it comes, is represented not as a war but as an act of self-defense against a homicidal maniac'.. George Orwell
'Nothing ever becomes real till it is experienced.'.. John Keats
'The dread of evil is a much more forcible principle of human actions than the prospect of good.'.. John Locke
'Are you going to come quietly, or do I have to use earplugs?'.. Spike Milligan