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Famous British Quotes
'What loneliness is more lonely than distrust?'.. George Eliot
'It is sometimes necessary to lie damnably in the interests of the nation'.. Hilaire Belloc
'My biggest regret in life is saving David Frost from drowning'.. Peter Cook
'Infamy! Infamy! They've all got it in for me!'.. Kenneth Williams
'I don't know why I should have to learn Algebra... I'm never likely to go there.'.. Billy Connolly
'Success is a great deodorant.'.. Elizabeth Taylor
'I don't believe one grows older. I think that what happens early on in life is that at a certain age one stands still and stagnates.'.. T S Eliot
'If you feel depressed or let down my advice is to roast a chicken'.. Delia Smith
'Nature, to be commanded, must be obeyed.'.. Sir Francis Bacon
'However I dress it up, I was a spy and I am not proud of it'.. Christine Keeler
'I like to give my inhibitions a bath now and then.'.. Oliver Reed
'I have a face like the behind of an elephant.'.. Charles Laughton
'If I were compelled to choose between living in west bromwich or florence I would make straight for west bromwich'.. J B Priestley
'Man is only great when he acts from passion.'.. Benjamin Disraeli
'It is so pleasant to come across people more stupid than ourselves. We love them at once for being so'.. Jerome K Jerome
'In order that people may be happy in their work, these three things are needed: They must be fit for it. They must not do too much of it. And they must have a sense of success in it.'.. John Ruskin
'Who overcomes by force, hath overcome but half his foe.'.. John Milton
'There can be no liberty unless there is economic liberty.'.. Margaret Thatcher
'Men love in haste, but they detest at leisure.'.. Lord Byron
'Charm, in most men and nearly all women, is a decoration.'.. E M Forster
'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 absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious'.. Oscar Wilde
'The true definition of a snob is one who craves for what separates men rather than for what unites them'.. John Buchan
'It is a dangerous thing to have instant access to your emotions.'.. Dennis Potter
'Everything government touches turns to crap.'.. Ringo Starr
'A work of art is the unique result of a unique temperament.'.. Oscar Wilde
'Life contains but two tragedies. One is not to get your heart's desire; the other is to get it.'.. George Bernard Shaw
'The snowdrop and primrose our woodlands adorn, and violets bathe in the wet o' the morn.'.. Robert Burns
'If we don't end war, war will end us.'.. H G Wells
'Everyone ought to bear patiently the results of his own conduct.'.. William Shakespeare