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Famous British Quotes
'Sexual intercourse is like having someone else blow your nose'.. Philip Larkin
'May not the complaint, that common people are above their station, often take its rise in the fact of uncommon people being below theirs?'.. Charles Dickens
'You know, I go to the theatre to be entertained. I don’t want to see plays about rape, sodomy and drug addiction...I can get all that at home'.. Peter Cook
'I think to be oversensitive about cliches is like being oversensitive about table manners.'.. Evelyn Waugh
'A dog is for life and not just for christmas so do be careful at the office party'.. Jimmy Carr
'Five minutes on even the nicest mountain is awfully long'.. W H Auden
'Consciousness is an end in itself. We torture ourselves getting somewhere, and when we get there it is nowhere, for there is nowhere to get to.'.. D H Lawrence
'There is frequently more to be learned from the unexpected questions of a child than the discourses of men'.. John Locke
'I will show you fear in a handful of dust.'.. T S Eliot
'Possession isn't nine-tenths of the law. It's nine-tenths of the problem'.. John Lennon
'War is evil, but it is often the lesser evil.'.. George Orwell
'I never saw a wild thing sorry for itself. A small bird will drop frozen dead from a bough without ever having felt sorry for itself.'.. D H Lawrence
'Disease generally begins that equality which death completes.'.. Samuel Johnson
'Little things affect little minds.'.. Benjamin Disraeli
'An orgy looks particularly alluring seen through the mists of righteous indignation'.. Malcolm Muggeridge
'Impropriety is the soul of wit.'.. Somerset Maugham
'The land of my fathers. My fathers can have it.'.. Dylan Thomas
'Unintelligent people always look for a scapegoat.'.. Ernest Bevin
'Soldiers are citizens of death's grey land, drawing no dividend from time's tomorrows'.. Siegfried Sassoon
'I took on the sins of everybody, of a generation, really'.. Christine Keeler
'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
'Glasgow - The beautifullest little city I have seen in Britain'.. Daniel Defoe
'Every war when it comes, or before it comes, is represented not as a war but as an act of self-defense against a homicidal maniac'.. George Orwell
'I had a dream that I was awake and I woke up to find myself asleep.'.. Stan Laurel
'Wine is bottled poetry.'.. Robert Louis Stevenson
'The martyr sacrifices themselves entirely in vain. Or rather not in vain; for they make the narrow narrower'.. Florence Nightingale
'That great Cathedral space which was childhood.'.. Virginia Woolf
'Patience, that blending of moral courage with physical timidity.'.. Thomas Hardy
'But love's a malady without a cure.'.. John Dryden
'It's not the voting that's democracy; it's the counting.'.. Sir Tom Stoppard