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Famous British Quotes
'Almost all crime is due to the repressed desire for aesthetic expression.'.. Evelyn Waugh
'Patriots always talk of dying for their country but never of killing for their country'.. Bertrand Russell
'The news is always bad, even when it sounds good'.. Aldous Huxley
'The British tourist is always happy abroad as long as the natives are waiters'.. Robert Morley
'Circumstances are beyond human control, but our conduct is in our own power.'.. Benjamin Disraeli
'Every man at the bottom of his heart believes that he is a born detective.'.. John Buchan
'Fear is the mother of foresight.'.. Thomas Hardy
'Genius at first is little more than a great capacity for receiving discipline'.. George Eliot
'In the end, everything is a gag.'.. Charlie Chaplin
'There's no such thing as old age, there is only sorrow'.. Fay Weldon
'The dread of evil is a much more forcible principle of human actions than the prospect of good.'.. John Locke
'Where there is no property there is no injustice.'.. John Locke
'Everyone has his day and some days last longer than others.'.. Winston Churchill
'When you've seen a nude infant doing a backward somersault you know why clothing exists'.. Stephen Fry
'A minute's success pays the failure of years.'.. Robert Browning
'I've sometimes thought of marrying - and then I've thought again.'.. Noel Coward
'Do not allow to slip away from you freedoms the people who came before you won with such hard knocks.'.. D H Lawrence
'No minister ever stood, or could stand, against public opinion.'.. Robert Peel
'Those who don't believe in magic will never find it'.. Roald Dahl
'Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others.'.. Robert Louis Stevenson
'If I had been around when Rubens was painting, I would have been revered as a fabulous model. Kate Moss? Well, she would have been the paintbrush.'.. Dawn French
'Dancing is a perpendicular expression of a horizontal desire.'.. George Bernard Shaw
'Having one child makes you a parent; having two you are a referee.'.. David Frost
'There are some things you can't share without ending up liking each other.'.. J K Rowling
'Militant feminists, I take my hat off to them. They don't like that'.. Milton Jones
'Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel.'.. Samuel Johnson
'When a man is tired of London, he is tired of life; for there is in London all that life can afford.'.. Samuel Johnson
'We are not interested in the possibilities of defeat. They do not exist'.. Queen Victoria
'It is widely held that too much wine will dull a man's desire. Indeed it will in a dull man'.. John Osborne
'I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them.'.. Ian Fleming