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Famous British Quotes
'A people always ends by resembling its shadow.'.. Rudyard Kipling
'So little done, so much to do.'.. Cecil Rhodes
'Life is far too important a thing ever to talk seriously about.'.. Oscar Wilde
'There is not a more repulsive spectacle than on old man who will not forsake the world, which has already forsaken him.'.. T S Eliot
'A man's true character comes out when he's drunk.'.. Charlie Chaplin
'I think we have all experienced passion that is not in any sense reasonable.'.. Stephen Fry
'Like all great travellers, I have seen more than I remember, and remember more than I have seen.'.. Benjamin Disraeli
'Everything's complicated, even those things that seem flat in their bleakness or sadness'.. Nick Hornby
'When childhood dies, its corpses are called adults.'.. Brian Aldiss
'To enjoy freedom we have to control ourselves.'.. Virginia Woolf
'Age is a very high price to pay for maturity.'.. Sir Tom Stoppard
'When I am dead, I hope it may be said: His sins were scarlet, but his books were read'.. Hilaire Belloc
'Lack of money is the root of all evil.'.. George Bernard Shaw
'One might well say that mankind is divisible into two great classes: hosts and guests'.. Max Beerbohm
'Music is everybody's possession. It's only publishers who think that people own it.'.. John Lennon
'An agent is a person who is sore because an actor gets 90% of what they make.'.. Elton John
'Only a mediocre person is always at his best.'.. Somerset Maugham
'Be thine own palace, or the world's thy jail.'.. John Donne
'Everything's got a moral, if only you can find it.'.. Lewis Carroll
'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
'All fantasy should have a solid base in reality.'.. Max Beerbohm
'Power is not a means, it is an end'.. George Orwell
'My favourite musical instrument is the telephone'.. Quentin Crisp
'I do not believe that friends are necessarily the people you like best, they are merely the people who got there first'.. Peter Ustinov
'Life is wasted on the living'.. Douglas Adams
'For all my education, accomplishments, and so called 'wisdom'... I can't fathom my own heart'.. Michael Caine
'A young man who isn't a socialist hasn't got a heart; an old man who is a socialist hasn't got a head.'.. David Lloyd George
'An aim in life is the only fortune worth finding.'.. Robert Louis Stevenson
'When I was a nurse my favourite assignment was the anorexia ward. I sometimes had 17 dinners'.. Jo Brand
'I think childhood is to everyone a lost land.'.. Dennis Potter