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Famous British Quotes
'Talk of the devil, and his horns appear.'.. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
'Several excuses are always less convincing than one.'.. Aldous Huxley
'All men have an instinct for conflict: at least, all healthy men.'.. Hilaire Belloc
'The length of a film should be directly determined by the endurance of the human bladder'.. Alfred Hitchcock
'Kings govern by means of popular assemblies only when they cannot do without them'.. Charles James Fox
'Go as far as you can see; when you get there you'll be able to see farther.'.. Thomas Carlyle
'Writing is the supreme solace.'.. Somerset Maugham
'It is widely held that too much wine will dull a man's desire. Indeed it will in a dull man'.. John Osborne
'People do not believe lies because they have to, but because they want to'.. Malcolm Muggeridge
'Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown.'.. William Shakespeare
'I want to live my life so that my nights are not full of regrets.'.. D H Lawrence
'Without tact you can learn nothing.'.. Benjamin Disraeli
'Biography lends to death a new terror'.. Oscar Wilde
'Serious sport is war minus the shooting.'.. George Orwell
'A difference of taste in jokes is a great strain on the affections.'.. George Eliot
'Beauty is a short-lived tyranny.'.. George Bernard Shaw
'Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past'.. George Orwell
'A true friend stabs you in the front.'.. Oscar Wilde
'But love's a malady without a cure.'.. John Dryden
'Before you can do something you must first be something.'.. John Gielgud
'The habit of religion is oppressive, an easy way out of thought.'.. Peter Ustinov
'Unintelligent people always look for a scapegoat.'.. Ernest Bevin
'Give a little love to a child, and you get a great deal back.'.. John Ruskin
'You have no idea what a poor opinion I have of myself and how little I deserve it'.. W S Gilbert
'The worst enemy of life, freedom and the common decencies is total anarchy; their second worst enemy is total efficiency.'.. Aldous Huxley
'Nothing shows up the difference between the things said or read, so much as the daily experience of it'.. Vita Sackville-West
'All the war-propaganda, all the screaming and lies and hatred, comes invariably from people who are not fighting'.. George Orwell
'Sure I am of this, that you have only to endure to conquer.'.. Winston Churchill
'I have often thought what a melancholy world this would be without children, and what an inhuman world without the aged'.. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
'But there, everything has its drawbacks, as the man said when his mother-in-law died, and they came down upon him for the funeral expenses'.. Jerome K Jerome