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Famous British Quotes
'I have changed. I no longer keep coal in the bath. I keep it in the bidet'.. John Prescott
'Diplomacy, is the art of letting somebody else have your way.'.. David Frost
'A politician is a person with whose politics you don't agree; if you agree with him he's a statesman.'.. David Lloyd George
'I would rather trust a woman's instinct than a man's reason.'.. Stanley Baldwin
'Time you enjoy wasting, was not wasted.'.. John Lennon
'Dunblane Cathedral - I know not of anything so perfect in its simplicity'.. John Ruskin
'If a farmer fills his barn with grain, he gets mice. If he leaves it empty, he gets actors'.. Walter Scott
'Don't talk to me about a man's being able to talk sense; everyone can talk sense. Can he talk nonsense?'.. William Pitt (The Younger)
'TV is as injurious to the soul as fast food is to the body'.. Quentin Crisp
'A team effort is a lot of people doing what I say'.. Michael Winner
'Advertising is legalized lying.'.. H G Wells
'I have always thought the actions of men the best interpreters of their thoughts.'.. John Locke
'The greatest scholars are not usually the wisest people.'.. Geoffrey Chaucer
'People say you should read your criticism because it will make you a better person but it doesn't. It just makes you a sad bitter old showbiz nightmare'.. Jo Brand
'Fortitude is the guard and support of the other virtues.'.. John Locke
'In politics, strangely enough, the best way to play your cards is to lay them face upwards on the table'.. H G Wells
'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
'Death is the only pure, beautiful conclusion of a great passion.'.. D H Lawrence
'A room without books is like a body without a soul.'.. GK Chesterton
'I am not against hasty marriages where a mutual flame is fanned by an adequate income'.. Wilkie Collins
'A man that hoards up riches and enjoys them not, is like an ass that carries gold and eats thistles'.. Richard Burton
'He that undervalues himself will undervalue others, and he that undervalues others will oppress them'.. Samuel Johnson
'New opinions are always suspected, and usually opposed, without anyother reason but because they are not already common.'.. John Locke
'My unhealthy affection for my second daughter has waned. Now I despise all my seven children equally.'.. Evelyn Waugh
'To be blind is not miserable; not to be able to bear blindness, that is miserable'.. John Milton
'I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many unsigned poems, was a woman'.. Virginia Woolf
'Surround yourself with human beings. They are easier to fight for than principles'.. Ian Fleming
'Proud people breed sad sorrows for themselves.'.. Emily Bronte
'A yawn is a silent shout'.. GK Chesterton
'A puritan is a person who pours righteous indignation into the wrong things'.. GK Chesterton