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Famous British Quotes
'To make your children capable of honesty is the beginning of education.'.. John Ruskin
'Contrariwise, if it was so, it might be; and if it were so, it would be; but as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic.'.. Lewis Carroll
'Grey towers of Durham, yet well I loved thy mixed and massive piles'.. Walter Scott
'Her virtue was that she said what she thought, her vice that what she thought didn't amount to much.'.. Peter Ustinov
'A painter must think of everything he sees as being there entirely for his own use and pleasure.'.. Lucien Freud
'You cannot antagonize and influence at the same time.'.. John Knox
'In every American there is an air of incorrigible innocence, which seems to conceal a diabolical cunning.'.. A E Housman
'An actor is something less than a man, while an actress is something more than a woman.'.. Richard Burton
'Impropriety is the soul of wit.'.. Somerset Maugham
'I used to go missing a lot...Miss Canada, Miss United Kingdom, Miss World.'.. George Best
'We build too many walls and not enough bridges.'.. Isaac Newton
'It is fatal to be a man or woman pure and simple: one must be a manly woman, or a womanly man.'.. Virginia Woolf
'Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.'.. Benjamin Disraeli
'It is not true that drink changes a man's character. It may reveal it more clearly.'.. John Osborne
'I would much prefer to be a judge than a coal miner because of the absence of falling coal'.. Peter Cook
'My reputation grows with every failure.'.. George Bernard Shaw
'Nothing ever becomes real till it is experienced.'.. John Keats
'Little things affect little minds.'.. Benjamin Disraeli
'We murdered them 0-0.'.. Bill Shankly
'A horse is dangerous at both ends and uncomfortable in the middle.'.. Ian Fleming
'Consequences are unpitying.'.. George Eliot
'Taste is the only morality. Tell me what you like and I'll tell you what you are'.. John Ruskin
'I'm not afraid of death but I am afraid of dying. Pain can be alleviated by morphine but the pain of social ostracism cannot be taken away'.. Derek Jarman
'Little children are still the symbol of the eternal marriage between love and duty.'.. George Eliot
'Memorial services are the cocktail parties of the geriatric set.'.. Harold Macmillan
'Contraceptives should be used on every conceivable occasion.'.. Spike Milligan
'An orgy looks particularly alluring seen through the mists of righteous indignation'.. Malcolm Muggeridge
'Better belly burst than good liquor be lost.'.. Jonathan Swift
'Colin is the sort of name you give your goldfish for a joke'.. Colin Firth
'In a completely sane world, madness is the only freedom!'.. James G Ballard