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Famous British Quotes
'Why are women... so much more interesting to men than men are to women?'.. Virginia Woolf
'Our patience will achieve more than our force.'.. Edmund Burke
'Alas! they had been friends in youth; but whispering tongues can poison truth.'.. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
'The longer you look at an object, the more abstract it becomes, and, ironically, the more real.'.. Lucien Freud
'Bachelors have consciences, married men have wives.'.. Samuel Johnson
'A diplomat is a man who thinks twice before he says nothing.'.. Edward Heath
'Who overcomes by force, hath overcome but half his foe.'.. John Milton
'It takes little talent to see what lies under one's nose, a good deal to know in what direction to point that organ.'.. W H Auden
'We have forty million reasons for failure, but not a single excuse.'.. Rudyard Kipling
'Somebody said to me, 'But the Beatles were anti-materialistic.' That's a huge myth. John and I literally used to sit down and say, 'Now, let's write a swimming pool.''.. Paul McCartney
'The printing press is the greatest weapon in the armoury of the modern commander'.. T E Lawrence
'The pain of parting is nothing to the joy of meeting again.'.. Charles Dickens
'A cynic is a man who knows the price of everything but the value of nothing'.. Oscar Wilde
'Life is a comedy for those who think... and a tragedy for those who feel'.. Horace Walpole
'Though lovers be lost love shall not.'.. Dylan Thomas
'Remember that the most beautiful things in the world are the most useless; peacocks and lilies for instance'.. John Ruskin
'Time is but the shadow of the world upon the background of Eternity.'.. Jerome K Jerome
'A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life.'.. Charles Darwin
'Man tends to increase at a greater rate than his means of subsistence.'.. Charles Darwin
'Anything for the quick life, as the man said when he took the situation at the lighthouse'.. Charles Dickens
'This report, by its very length, defends itself against the risk of being read.'.. Winston Churchill
'Comedy, we may say, is society protecting itself - with a smile.'.. J B Priestley
'I wonder if anyone will ever know the emptiness of my life. Personal Diary -- Last entry "Oh what's the point?"'.. Kenneth Williams
'It is a mistake to think you can solve any major problems just with potatoes'.. Douglas Adams
'Heresy is another word for freedom of thought.'.. Graham Greene
'Don't talk to me about atrocities in war; all war is an atrocity.'.. Lord Kitchener
'Literature is strewn with the wreckage of men who have minded beyond reason the opinions of others'.. Virginia Woolf
'I don’t understand bus lanes. Why do poor people have to get to places quicker than I do?'.. Jeremy Clarkson
'Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people'.. Oscar Wilde
'The higher the building the lower the morals.'.. Noel Coward