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Famous British Quotes
'I chose my wife, as she did her wedding gown, for qualities that would wear well'.. Oliver Goldsmith
'Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel.'.. Samuel Johnson
'Auld Ayr,whom ne'er a town surpasses for honest men and bonnie lasses'.. Robert Burns
'Confidence is a plant of slow growth in an aged heart.'.. William Pitt (The Younger)
'The one haunting and exasperatingly lovable city in Scotland'.. Lewis Gibbon
'All fantasy should have a solid base in reality.'.. Max Beerbohm
'Some folk want their luck buttered'.. Thomas Hardy
'One's life has many compartments.'.. Harold Pinter
'Virtue is the fount whence honour springs.'.. Christopher Marlowe
'Society has always seemed to demand a little more from human beings than it will get in practice'.. George Orwell
'Man is an animal that makes bargains: no other animal does this - no dog exchanges bones with another.'.. Adam Smith
'I sometimes think that God in creating man somewhat overestimated his ability.'.. Oscar Wilde
'There are some things only intellectuals are crazy enough to believe'.. George Orwell
'All I can think of the Middle Ages is that everything must have chafed terribly'.. A A Gill
'To make your children capable of honesty is the beginning of education.'.. John Ruskin
'No ghost was ever seen by two pairs of eyes.'.. Thomas Carlyle
'Proof that God has an odd sense of humour - after inventing Haute Cuisine he gave it to the French'.. A A Gill
'Patriots always talk of dying for their country but never of killing for their country'.. Bertrand Russell
'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
'By indignities men come to dignities.'.. Sir Francis Bacon
'I thought how unpleasant it is to be locked out; and I thought how it is worse, perhaps, to be locked in.'.. Virginia Woolf
'We cherish our friends not for their ability to amuse us, but for ours to amuse them.'.. Evelyn Waugh
'Ask the right questions if you're to find the right answers.'.. Vanessa Redgrave
'We build too many walls and not enough bridges.'.. Isaac Newton
'Women are naturally secretive, and they like to do their own secreting.'.. Arthur Conan Doyle
'There are only four people who knew what the Beatles were about anyway.'.. Paul McCartney
'My favorite sexual fantasy is smearing my body in chocolate and being left alone in a room to eat it'.. Jo Brand
'Think of the man who first tasted German Sausage'.. Jerome K Jerome
'How inappropriate to call this planet Earth when it is quite clearly Ocean.'.. Arthur C Clarke
'Do not let spacious plans for a new world divert your energies from saving what is left of the old'.. Winston Churchill