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Famous British Quotes
'There's no possibility of being witty without a little ill-nature.'.. Richard Sheridan
'It is only in the world of objects that we have time and space and selves.'.. T S Eliot
'I desire no future that will break the ties with the past.'.. George Eliot
'They can't censor the gleam in my eye.'.. Charles Laughton
'I always said God was against art and I still believe it.'.. Edward Elgar
'Death is no different whined at than withstood.'.. Philip Larkin
'Public opinion polls are rather like children in a garden, digging things up all the time to see how they're growing.'.. J B Priestley
'One of the disadvantages of wine is that it makes a man mistake words for thoughts.'.. Samuel Johnson
'If slaughterhouses had glass walls, everyone would be a vegetarian.'.. Paul McCartney
'There are three rules for writing a novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are'.. Somerset Maugham
'Every time you liberate a woman, you liberate a man'.. Emmeline Pankhurst
'Russia is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma.'.. Winston Churchill
'A gentleman is one who never hurts anyone's feelings unintentionally'.. Oscar Wilde
'Beware of snobbery; it is the unwelcome recognition of one's own past failings'.. Cary Grant
'Heresy is another word for freedom of thought.'.. Graham Greene
'Have you ever noticed? Anybody going slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than you is a maniac'.. Ronnie Corbett
'In my opinion, most of the great men of the past were only there for the beer - the wealth, prestige and grandeur that went with the power.'.. A J P Taylor
'A nation trying to tax itself to prosperity is rather like a man standing in a bucket and trying to lift himself up by the handle'.. Winston Churchill
'Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.'.. Oscar Wilde
'This report, by its very length, defends itself against the risk of being read.'.. Winston Churchill
'It is no wonder that people are so horrible when they start their life as children.'.. Sir Kingsley Amis
'Only a mediocre person is always at his best.'.. Somerset Maugham
'Be not afraid of greatness: some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them'.. William Shakespeare
'Five minutes on even the nicest mountain is awfully long'.. W H Auden
'By indignities men come to dignities.'.. Sir Francis Bacon
'I have changed. I no longer keep coal in the bath. I keep it in the bidet'.. John Prescott
'The finest landscape is improved by a good Pub in the foreground'.. Samuel Johnson
'Every man at the bottom of his heart believes that he is a born detective.'.. John Buchan
'My goal is simple. It is a complete understanding of the universe, why it is as it is and why it exists at all.'.. Stephen Hawking
'Nothing that is worth knowing can be taught'.. Oscar Wilde