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Famous British Quotes
'It's so easy for propaganda to work, and dissent to be mocked.'.. Harold Pinter
'The difference between a bad artist and a good one is: the bad artist seems to copy a great deal; the good one really does'.. William Blake
'Time you enjoy wasting, was not wasted.'.. John Lennon
'What though youth gave love and roses, Age still leaves us friends and wine.'.. Thomas More
'Be not afraid of greatness: some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them'.. William Shakespeare
'We often repent of our first thoughts, and scarce ever of our second'.. Horace Walpole
'History is a race between education and catastrophe.'.. H G Wells
'In the old days men had the rack. Now they have the Press'.. Oscar Wilde
'Divorce is a game played by lawyers.'.. Cary Grant
'Ambition may be defined as the willingness to receive any number of hits on the nose'.. Wilfred Owen
'I can only go one way. I've not got a reverse gear.'.. Tony Blair
'Woman begins by resisting a man's advances and ends by blocking his retreat.'.. Oscar Wilde
'I went window shopping today! I bought four windows.'.. Tommy Cooper
'It's a poor sort of memory that only works backwards.'.. Lewis Carroll
'Our true nationality is mankind.'.. H G Wells
'All I can think of the Middle Ages is that everything must have chafed terribly'.. A A Gill
'He was about as useful as a one-legged man at an arse kicking contest.'.. Rowan Atkinson
'I am prepared for the worst, but hope for the best.'.. Benjamin Disraeli
'I wanted above all else not to be like my mum.'.. Julie Walters
'Be not a slave of words.'.. Thomas Carlyle
'All our discontents about what we want appeared to spring from the want of thankfulness for what we have.'.. Daniel Defoe
'Patriots always talk of dying for their country but never of killing for their country'.. Bertrand Russell
'What loneliness is more lonely than distrust?'.. George Eliot
'Full, saturated colours have an emotional significance I want to avoid.'.. Lucien Freud
'Consistency is the last refuge of the unimaginative.'.. Oscar Wilde
'God gave us memory so that we might have roses in December.'.. J M Barrie
'Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.'.. Rudyard Kipling
'Death is the sound of distant thunder at a picnic.'.. W H Auden
'If you carry your childhood with you, you never become older.'.. Sir Tom Stoppard
'What Youth deemed crystal, Age finds out was dew.'.. Robert Browning