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Famous British Quotes
'I never saw an ugly thing in my life: for let the form of an object be what it may, - light, shade, and perspective will always make it beautiful'.. John Constable
'Man is the creature of circumstances.'.. Robert Owen
'No violent extreme endures.'.. Thomas Carlyle
'An American monkey, after getting drunk on brandy, would never touch it again, and thus is much wiser than most men.'.. Charles Darwin
'I've only slept with men I've been married to. How many women can make that claim?'.. Elizabeth Taylor
'A man who does not think for himself does not think at all.'.. Oscar Wilde
'We are not just here to manage capitalism but to change society and to define its finer values'.. Tony Benn
'Give him enough rope and he will hang himself.'.. Charlotte Bronte
'Man's love is of man's life a part; it is a woman's whole existence. In her first passion, a woman loves her lover, in all the others all she loves is love.'.. Lord Byron
'My dreams were all my own; I accounted for them to nobody; they were my refuge when annoyed - my dearest pleasure when free'.. Mary Shelley
'Men love in haste, but they detest at leisure.'.. Lord Byron
'An explanation of cause is not a justification by reason'.. C S Lewis
'History has remembered the kings and warriors, because they destroyed; art has remembered the people, because they created'.. William Morris
'Laziness has become the chief characteristic of journalism, displacing incompetence.'.. Sir Kingsley Amis
'Compromise is the best and cheapest lawyer.'.. Robert Louis Stevenson
'He was about as useful as a one-legged man at an arse kicking contest.'.. Rowan Atkinson
'A good gulp of hot whiskey at bedtime - it's not very scientific but it helps'.. Alexander Fleming
'There is no instinct like that of the heart.'.. Lord Byron
'To all, to each, a fair good-night, and pleasing dreams, and slumbers light.'.. Walter Scott
'A master of improvised speech and improvised policies.'.. A J P Taylor
'Every war when it comes, or before it comes, is represented not as a war but as an act of self-defense against a homicidal maniac'.. George Orwell
'Any truth is better than indefinite doubt.'.. Arthur Conan Doyle
'By indignities men come to dignities.'.. Sir Francis Bacon
'The news is always bad, even when it sounds good'.. Aldous Huxley
'It is curious that every creed promises a paradise on death which is unthinkable for anyone of taste'.. Evelyn Waugh
'I have frequently gained my first real insight into the character of parents by studying their children'.. Arthur Conan Doyle
'Sure I am of this, that you have only to endure to conquer.'.. Winston Churchill
'Deer hunting would be a fine sport if only the deer had guns'.. W S Gilbert
'I'll give you my opinion of the human race in a nutshell... their heart's in the right place, but their head is a thoroughly inefficient organ.'.. Somerset Maugham
'The trouble with words is that you never know whose mouths they have been in.'.. Dennis Potter