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Famous British Quotes
'Everything I've ever told you, including this, is a lie'.. Peter Cook
'The disease which inflicts bureaucracy and what they usually die from is routine'.. John Stuart Mill
'I never deliberately set out to shock, but when people don't walk out of my plays I think there is something wrong.'.. John Osborne
'I hate the word `hate`.'.. Peter Cushing
'He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches.'.. George Bernard Shaw
'In trouble to be troubled, Is to have your trouble doubled.'.. Daniel Defoe
'Live as long as you may, the first twenty years are the longest half of your life.'.. Robert Southey
'The more I study religions the more I am convinced that man never worshipped anything but himself.'.. Richard Burton
'I used to look at these pictures of trumpeters pointing their instrument to the ceiling. Stunning pictures, but if you play the trumpet and point it upwards, all the spit comes back into your mouth!'.. Humphrey Lyttleton
'Greenwich possesses the best air, the best prospect and the best conversation'.. Daniel Defoe
'Life contains but two tragedies. One is not to get your heart's desire; the other is to get it.'.. George Bernard Shaw
'Ending a sentence with a preposition is something up with which I will not put.'.. Winston Churchill
'A day wasted on others is not wasted on one's self.'.. Charles Dickens
'My boyfriend had a sex manual but he was dyslexic. I was lying there and he was looking for my vinegar'.. Victoria Wood
'A woman can be anything the man who loves her would have her be.'.. J M Barrie
'You shall judge a man by his foes as well as by his friends.'.. Joseph Conrad
'There is no sin but ignorance.'.. Christopher Marlowe
'I love argument, I love debate. I don't expect anyone just to sit there and agree with me, that's not their job'.. Margaret Thatcher
'Rolf Harris is a difficult man to hate but that shouldnt stop us trying'.. A A Gill
'We murdered them 0-0.'.. Bill Shankly
'Absences are a good influence in love and keep it bright and delicate.'.. Robert Louis Stevenson
'Liberal: a power worshipper without power.'.. George Orwell
'Have you ever noticed? Anybody going slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than you is a maniac'.. Ronnie Corbett
'I know not, sir, whether Bacon wrote the works of Shakespeare, but if he did not, it seems to me that he missed the opportunity of his life.'.. J M Barrie
'Bad humor is an evasion of reality; good humor is an acceptance of it.'.. Malcolm Muggeridge
'Evil is unspectacular and always human, and shares our bed and eats at our own table.'.. W H Auden
'War against a foreign country only happens when the moneyed classes think they are going to profit from it'.. George Orwell
'Pity those who nature abuses; never those who abuse nature.'.. Richard Sheridan
'Never read print, it spoils one's eye for the ball.'.. W G Grace
'Anything for the quick life, as the man said when he took the situation at the lighthouse'.. Charles Dickens