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Famous British Quotes
'You may be as vicious about me as you please. You will only do me justice.'.. Richard Burton
'From quiet homes and first beginning, out to the undiscovered ends, there's nothing worth the wear of winning, but laughter and the love of friends'.. Hilaire Belloc
'You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.'.. C S Lewis
'A good gulp of hot whiskey at bedtime - it's not very scientific but it helps'.. Alexander Fleming
'Corruption is nature's way of restoring our faith in democracy.'.. Peter Ustinov
'Man hands on misery to man. It deepens like a coastal shelf. Get out as early as you can, and don't have any kids yourself'.. Philip Larkin
'Science must have originated in the feeling that something was wrong.'.. Thomas Carlyle
'Long run is a misleading guide to current affairs. In the long run we are all dead.'.. John Maynard Keynes
'Death is the sound of distant thunder at a picnic.'.. W H Auden
'Europe's the mayonnaise, but America supplies the good old lobster.'.. D H Lawrence
'Only mediocrity can be trusted to be always at its best.'.. Max Beerbohm
'A diplomat these days in nothing, but a head waiter who is allowed to sit down occasionally.'.. Peter Ustinov
'Ambition - it is the last infirmity of noble minds.'.. J M Barrie
'If you give up drink and sex, you don't live longer. It just seems longer'.. Clement Freud
'Theres only one thing worse than an Estate Agent but that can be safely lanced, drained and surgically dressed.'.. Stephen Fry
'I only go out to get me a fresh appetite for being alone.'.. Lord Byron
'Do what you will, this world's a fiction and is made up of contradiction'.. William Blake
'The worst enemy of life, freedom and the common decencies is total anarchy; their second worst enemy is total efficiency.'.. Aldous Huxley
'I am not a heavy drinker. I can sometimes go for hours without touching a drop.'.. Noel Coward
'In me the tiger sniffs the rose.'.. Siegfried Sassoon
'If you have men who will only come if they know there is a good road, I don't want them. I want men who will come if there is no road at all.'.. David Livingstone
'This is the first age that's ever paid much attention to the future, which is a little ironic since we may not have one'.. Arthur C Clarke
'In politics, what begins in fear usually ends in failure.'.. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
'Disease generally begins that equality which death completes.'.. Samuel Johnson
'I can imagine no more comfortable frame of mind than a humorous resignation'.. Somerset Maugham
'Being powerful is like being a lady. If you have to tell people you are, you aren't'.. Margaret Thatcher
'A person is a fool to become a writer. His only compensation is absolute freedom'.. Roald Dahl
'Dancing is the poetry of the foot.'.. John Dryden
'If slaughterhouses had glass walls, everyone would be a vegetarian.'.. Paul McCartney
'I can only go one way. I've not got a reverse gear.'.. Tony Blair