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Famous British Quotes
'Sexual intercourse is like having someone else blow your nose'.. Philip Larkin
'When love and skill work together, expect a masterpiece.'.. John Ruskin
'Nothing is more obstinate than a fashionable consensus.'.. Margaret Thatcher
'It is curious that every creed promises a paradise on death which is unthinkable for anyone of taste'.. Evelyn Waugh
'To get a job where the only thing you have to do in your career is to make people laugh-well, it's the best job in the world'.. Ronnie Barker
'Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal.'.. T S Eliot
'Not on one strand are all life's jewels strung.'.. William Morris
'Politics is the art of making the inevitable seem planned'.. Quentin Crisp
'We are not just here to manage capitalism but to change society and to define its finer values'.. Tony Benn
'I think computer viruses should count as life. I think it says something about human nature that the only form of life we have created so far is purely destructive. We've created life in our own image.'.. Stephen Hawking
'Those who will not reason, are bigots, those who cannot, are fools, and those who dare not, are slaves'.. Lord Byron
'A smile abroad is often a scowl at home.'.. Alfred Lord Tennyson
'In the long history of humankind (and animal kind, too) those who learned to collaborate and improvise most effectively have prevailed.'.. Charles Darwin
'Take away love and our earth is a tomb.'.. Robert Browning
'You may be as vicious about me as you please. You will only do me justice.'.. Richard Burton
'I always admired virtue - but I could never imitate it'.. Charles II
'A critic is a man who knows the way but can't drive the car.'.. Kenneth Tynan
'The land of my fathers. My fathers can have it.'.. Dylan Thomas
'The light, that lies In woman's eyes, Has been my heart's undoing.'.. Thomas More
'I am a part of all that I have seen.'.. Alfred Lord Tennyson
'I chose my wife, as she did her wedding gown, for qualities that would wear well'.. Oliver Goldsmith
'Actually american football is a lot like rugby but why do they keep on having all those committee meetings?'.. Winston Churchill
'Better to reign in hell than serve in heaven'.. John Milton
'To succeed with the opposite sex, tell her you're impotent. She can't wait to disprove it.'.. Cary Grant
'Kings govern by means of popular assemblies only when they cannot do without them'.. Charles James Fox
'That's all drugs and alcohol do, they cut off your emotions in the end.'.. Ringo Starr
'I don't work at being ordinary.'.. Paul McCartney
'Its the menopause. I have got my own climate'.. Julie Walters
'Great bodies of people are never responsible for what they do.'.. Virginia Woolf
'He who would search for pearls must dive below.'.. John Dryden