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Famous British Quotes
'There's no possibility of being witty without a little ill-nature.'.. Richard Sheridan
'My unhealthy affection for my second daughter has waned. Now I despise all my seven children equally.'.. Evelyn Waugh
'The best car safety device is a rear-view mirror with a cop in it'.. Dudley Moore
'Now that I know what I want, I don't have to hold on to it quite so much.'.. Lucien Freud
'Anxiety is the hand maiden of creativity.'.. T S Eliot
'The block of granite which was an obstacle in the pathway of the weak, became a stepping-stone in the pathway of the strong.'.. Thomas Carlyle
'All that I desire to point out is the general principle that life imitates art far more than art imitates life'.. Oscar Wilde
'I'll go through life either first class or third, but never in second.'.. Noel Coward
'Credit is a system whereby a person who can not pay gets another person who can not pay to guarantee that he can pay.'.. Charles Dickens
'In all intellectual debates, both sides tend to be correct in what they affirm, and wrong in what they deny'.. John Stuart Mill
'Flying is learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.'.. Douglas Adams
'Sometimes when you're drunk you can see better.'.. Damien Hirst
'Money doesn't mind if we say it's evil, it goes from strength to strength. It's a fiction, an addiction, and a tacit conspiracy'.. Martin Amis
'Selfishness is the greatest curse of the human race.'.. W E Gladstone
'The politician who never made a mistake never made a decision.'.. John Major
'He who sows hurry reaps indigestion.'.. Robert Louis Stevenson
'Dickens is one of those authors who are well worth stealing.'.. George Orwell
'We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.'.. Oscar Wilde
'I have a fantasy where Ted Turner is elected president but refuses because he doesn't want to give up power.'.. Arthur C Clarke
'In love as in sport, the amateur status must be strictly maintained.'.. Robert Graves
'Thought is the parent of the deed.'.. Thomas Carlyle
'I find Cambridge an asylum, in every sense of the word.'.. A E Housman
'To enjoy freedom we have to control ourselves.'.. Virginia Woolf
'The true definition of a snob is one who craves for what separates men rather than for what unites them'.. John Buchan
'Dictators free themselves, but they enslave the people.'.. Charlie Chaplin
'Life is far too important a thing ever to talk seriously about.'.. Oscar Wilde
'We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.'.. Winston Churchill
'We cast a shadow on something wherever we stand.'.. E M Forster
'Heresy is another word for freedom of thought.'.. Graham Greene
'No one does anything from a single motive.'.. Samuel Taylor Coleridge