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Famous British Quotes
'It is widely held that too much wine will dull a man's desire. Indeed it will in a dull man'.. John Osborne
'Actors search for rejection. If they don't get it they reject themselves.'.. Charlie Chaplin
'There's nothing glorious in dying. Anyone can do it'.. John Lydon (Johnny Rotten)
'Good sense about trivialities is better than nonsense about things that matter'.. Max Beerbohm
'Look back, and smile on perils past.'.. Walter Scott
'People who say it cannot be done should not interrupt those who are doing it'.. George Bernard Shaw
'I always knew that if all else failed I could become an actor. And all else failed'.. David Niven
'The news is always bad, even when it sounds good'.. Aldous Huxley
'Idleness, like kisses, to be sweet must be stolen.'.. Jerome K Jerome
'A ruffled mind makes a restless pillow.'.. Charlotte Bronte
'Full, saturated colours have an emotional significance I want to avoid.'.. Lucien Freud
'Taste is the only morality. Tell me what you like and I'll tell you what you are'.. John Ruskin
'A team effort is a lot of people doing what I say'.. Michael Winner
'The fact that logic cannot satisfy us awakens an almost insatiable hunger for the irrational.'.. A N Wilson
'No one gossips about other people's secret virtues.'.. Bertrand Russell
'The Welsh are all actors. It's only the bad ones who become professional.'.. Richard Burton
'I'm a hero with coward's legs.'.. Spike Milligan
'All wealth is the product of labour.'.. John Locke
'Life could be wonderful if people would leave you alone.'.. Charlie Chaplin
'One cannot really be a Catholic and grown up.'.. George Orwell
'Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another'.. GK Chesterton
'He who laughs most, learns best.'.. John Cleese
'Man tends to increase at a greater rate than his means of subsistence.'.. Charles Darwin
'I think it is the responsibility of a citizen of any country to say what he thinks.'.. Harold Pinter
'Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it.'.. George Bernard Shaw
'Some folk want their luck buttered'.. Thomas Hardy
'Life is obstinate and clings closest where it is most hated.'.. Mary Shelley
'To be blind is not miserable; not to be able to bear blindness, that is miserable'.. John Milton
'If I played Hamlet, they`d call it a horror film'.. Peter Cushing
'Loyalty is a fine quality, but in excess it fills political graveyards.'.. Neil Kinnock