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Famous British Quotes
'Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children.'.. George Bernard Shaw
'Every exit is an entry somewhere else.'.. Sir Tom Stoppard
'Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs.'.. William Shakespeare
'Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.'.. Winston Churchill
'animals have the vowel sounds; man only can utter consonants'.. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
'If I have done the public any service, it is due to my patient thought'.. Isaac Newton
'Superstition is the religion of feeble minds.'.. Edmund Burke
'I count religion but a childish toy, and hold there is no sin but ignorance.'.. Christopher Marlowe
'The average Englishman goes 6 months without crying depending on the Football results'.. Frank Skinner
'There is no such thing as the pursuit of happiness, but there is the discovery of joy'.. Joyce Grenfell
'I was court-martialled in my absence, and sentenced to death in my absence, so I said they could shoot me in my absence.'.. Thomas Hardy
'Love is love's reward.'.. John Dryden
'If all the economists were laid end to end, they'd never reach a conclusion'.. George Bernard Shaw
'I then realized my appearance was a bit odd. My right leg was no longer with me. It had caught somewhere in the top of the cockpit as I tried to leave my Spitfire.'.. Douglas Bader
'Freedom is the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.'.. George Orwell
'There are two things no man will admit he cannot do well: drive and make love.'.. Stirling Moss
'It's the one thing I actively don't like: just being recognized'.. Ricky Gervais
'Greatness and goodness are not means, but ends.'.. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
'All that a husband or wife really wants is to be pitied a little, praised a little, and appreciated a little'.. Oliver Goldsmith
'My dreams were all my own; I accounted for them to nobody; they were my refuge when annoyed - my dearest pleasure when free'.. Mary Shelley
'I always arrive late at the office, but I make up for it by leaving early.'.. Charles Lamb
'Artists are like everybody else.'.. Damien Hirst
'What I am looking for is a blessing not in disguise.'.. Jerome K Jerome
'Power is not a means, it is an end'.. George Orwell
'It is not true that drink changes a man's character. It may reveal it more clearly.'.. John Osborne
'Bexhill on Sea is a peck on the cheek: Hastings is a lolloping tongue down the throat'.. Jo Brand
'I want to live my life so that my nights are not full of regrets.'.. D H Lawrence
'To know all is not to forgive all. It is to despise everybody'.. Quentin Crisp
'There were many times my pants were so thin I could sit on a dime and tell if it was heads or tails.'.. Jonathan Swift
'It is not so much that the world has got so much worse but that news coverage has got so much better'.. GK Chesterton