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Famous British Quotes
'In politics, what begins in fear usually ends in failure.'.. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
'Woman begins by resisting a man's advances and ends by blocking his retreat.'.. Oscar Wilde
'I keep seeing myself in my daughter, and I see my mother in me and in her. Bloody hell.'.. Julie Walters
'We are stripped bare by the curse of plenty.'.. Winston Churchill
'Life is a progress from want to want, not from enjoyment to enjoyment.'.. Samuel Johnson
'There was no respect for youth when I was young, and now that I am old, there is no respect for age, I missed it coming and going'.. J B Priestley
'Five minutes on even the nicest mountain is awfully long'.. W H Auden
'The trouble with words is that you never know whose mouths they have been in.'.. Dennis Potter
'I don't know many singers who actually do like the sound of their own voice'.. Roger Daltrey
'Love is blind.'.. Geoffrey Chaucer
'Absence - that common cure of love.'.. Lord Byron
'Being a woman is a terribly difficult task, since it consists principally in dealing with men.'.. Joseph Conrad
'If I played Hamlet, they`d call it a horror film'.. Peter Cushing
'Marriage is one long conversation, chequered by disputes.'.. Robert Louis Stevenson
'Britain's most useful role is somewhere between bee and dinosaur.'.. Harold Macmillan
'The first and simplest emotion which we discover in the human mind, is curiosity.'.. Edmund Burke
'One is certain of nothing but the truth of one's own emotions.'.. E M Forster
'A verbal art like poetry is reflective; it stops to think. Music is immediate, it goes on to become'.. W H Auden
'With two small children, I haven't had a wash since 2001 so the chance to go shopping is way down the list. It is something I do intend to get'.. Jo Brand
'All the flower children were as alike as a congress of accountants and about as interesting.'.. Sir John Mortimer
'There are only four people who knew what the Beatles were about anyway.'.. Paul McCartney
'Egotism is the source and summary of all faults and miseries.'.. Thomas Carlyle
'Imagination is a poor matter when it has to part company with understanding'.. Thomas Carlyle
'Oh, the tiger will love you. There is no sincerer love than the love of food.'.. George Bernard Shaw
'All mankind... being all equal and independent, no one ought to harm another in his life, health, liberty or possessions.'.. John Locke
'The delicate balance between modesty and conceit is popularity.'.. Max Beerbohm
'Look back, and smile on perils past.'.. Walter Scott
'Writers should be read, but neither seen nor heard.'.. Daphne du Maurier
'Don't accept the old order. Get rid of it.'.. John Lydon (Johnny Rotten)
'As a woman I have no country. As a woman my country is the whole world.'.. Virginia Woolf