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Famous British Quotes
'I know not, sir, whether Bacon wrote the works of Shakespeare, but if he did not, it seems to me that he missed the opportunity of his life.'.. J M Barrie
'There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.'.. Benjamin Disraeli
'As usual, there is a great woman behind every idiot.'.. John Lennon
'Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people'.. Oscar Wilde
'I have two ambitions in life: one is to drink every pub dry, the other is to sleep with every woman on earth.'.. Oliver Reed
'The Beduin could not look for God within him: he was too sure that he was within God.'.. T E Lawrence
'For several days after my first book was published, I carried it about in my pocket and took surreptitious peeps at it to make sure the ink had not faded.'.. J M Barrie
'To an ordinary human being, love means nothing if it does not mean loving some people more than others'.. George Orwell
'Merely having an open mind is nothing. The object of opening the mind, as with the mouth, is it firmly shut it again on something solid'.. GK Chesterton
'A woman that does a mans work is just a lazy cow'.. Jo Brand
'People who can't be witty exert themselves to be devout and affectionate.'.. George Eliot
'To see a world in a grain of sand and heaven in a wild flower Hold infinity in the palms of your hand and eternity in an hour'.. William Blake
'Time you enjoy wasting, was not wasted.'.. John Lennon
'The one haunting and exasperatingly lovable city in Scotland'.. Lewis Gibbon
'It's so easy for propaganda to work, and dissent to be mocked.'.. Harold Pinter
'The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter.'.. Winston Churchill
'If you feel that life is one of Gods jokes there is still no reason not to make it a good oke'.. Kenneth Williams
'Discretion is the perfection of reason, and a guide to us in all the duties of life.'.. Walter Scott
'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
'Saints should always be judged guilty until they are proved innocent'.. George Orwell
'Every man over forty is a scoundrel.'.. George Bernard Shaw
'Silence is the most perfect expression of scorn.'.. George Bernard Shaw
'When thinking about companions gone, we feel ourselves doubly alone.'.. Walter Scott
'Insecurity, commonly regarded as a weakness in normal people, is the basic tool of the actor's trade'.. Miranda Richardson
'The finest eloquence is that which gets things done.'.. David Lloyd George
'Ability is sexless'.. Christabel Pankhurst
'The human species, according to the best theory I can form of it, is composed of two distinct races, the men who borrow and the men who lend.'.. Charles Lamb
'Lets face it Football is a game for commoners. As soon as you get a mortgage you start to like Tennis'.. Jonathan Ross
'A resolution to avoid an evil is seldom framed till the evil is so far advanced as to make avoidance impossible'.. Thomas Hardy
'One half of the world cannot understand the other halfs pleasures'.. Jane Austen