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Famous British Quotes
'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
'Never the time and the place and the loved one all together!'.. Robert Browning
'Death is no different whined at than withstood.'.. Philip Larkin
'No brilliance is needed in the law. Nothing but common sense, and relatively clean finger nails.'.. Sir John Mortimer
'Most human beings have an infinite capacity for taking things for granted'.. Aldous Huxley
'Progress is not an illusion, it happens, but it is slow and invariably disappointing'.. George Orwell
'Youth smiles without any reason. It is one of its chiefest charms.'.. Thomas Gray
'Be like a duck. Calm on the surface, but always paddling like the dickens underneath.'.. Michael Caine
'All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others'.. George Orwell
'It's bad taste to be wise all the time, like being at a perpetual funeral.'.. D H Lawrence
'Life has a practice of living you, if you don't live it.'.. Philip Larkin
'Europe was created by history. America was created by philosophy'.. Margaret Thatcher
'That's all drugs and alcohol do, they cut off your emotions in the end.'.. Ringo Starr
'Do not tell secrets to those whose faith and silence you have not already tested.'.. Elizabeth I
'Anything for the quick life, as the man said when he took the situation at the lighthouse'.. Charles Dickens
'The past is a great place and I don't want to erase it or to regret it, but I don't want to be its prisoner either'.. Mick Jagger
'Virtue is the fount whence honour springs.'.. Christopher Marlowe
'If my critics saw me walking over the Thames they would say it was because I couldn't swim'.. Margaret Thatcher
'The best research for playing a drunk is being a British actor for 20 years'.. Michael Caine
'Everything's complicated, even those things that seem flat in their bleakness or sadness'.. Nick Hornby
'It is better to live rich than to die rich.'.. Samuel Johnson
'I have terrible hearing trouble. I have unwittingly helped to invent and refine a type of music that makes its principal proponents deaf.'.. Pete Townshend
'Saw a wedding in the church. It was strange to see what delight we married people have to see these poor fools decoyed into our condition.'.. Samuel Pepys
'Their's not to make reply, Their's not to reason why, Their's but to do and die'.. Alfred Lord Tennyson
'Necessity has no law.'.. Oliver Cromwell
'Assassination is the extreme form of censorship.'.. George Bernard Shaw
'For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbors and laugh at them in our turn?'.. Jane Austen
'I became a great runner because if you are a kid in Leeds called Sebastian you have to be'.. Sebastian Coe
'When I was a nurse my favourite assignment was the anorexia ward. I sometimes had 17 dinners'.. Jo Brand
'A woman is as young as her knees.'.. Mary Quant