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Famous British Quotes
'Everything we do has consequences.'.. Dennis Potter
'To an ordinary human being, love means nothing if it does not mean loving some people more than others'.. George Orwell
'It was such a lovely day I thought it was a pity to get up'.. Somerset Maugham
'Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught'.. Oscar Wilde
'Evil is unspectacular and always human, and shares our bed and eats at our own table.'.. W H Auden
'I'd like to grow very old as slowly as possible.'.. Charles Lamb
'He that is taught only by himself has a fool for a master'.. Ben Jonson
'Accursed be he that first invented war.'.. Christopher Marlowe
'There is no sin but ignorance.'.. Christopher Marlowe
'Thieves respect property - they merely wish it to become their property'.. GK Chesterton
'A widespread taste for pornography means that nature is alerting us to some threat of extinction'.. James G Ballard
'A belief is like a guillotine, just as heavy, just as light.'.. David Hockney
'Sex is a momentary itch, love never lets you go.'.. Sir Kingsley Amis
'There is only one class in the community that thinks more about money than the rich, and that is the poor'.. Oscar Wilde
'Punctuality is the virtue of the bored.'.. Evelyn Waugh
'For most of history, Anonymous was a woman.'.. Virginia Woolf
'Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.'.. T S Eliot
'The great advantage of being in a rut is that when one is in a rut one knows exactly where one is'.. Alan Bennett
'They are most deceived that trusteth most in themselves.'.. Elizabeth I
'We drink one another's health and spoil our own.'.. Jerome K Jerome
'Most human beings have an infinite capacity for taking things for granted'.. Aldous Huxley
'I'm spending a year dead for tax reasons.'.. Douglas Adams
'Its the menopause. I have got my own climate'.. Julie Walters
'I wonder what fool it was that first invented kissing.'.. Jonathan Swift
'I think you should take your job seriously, but not yourself - that is the best combination'.. Judi Dench
'Dancing is a perpendicular expression of a horizontal desire.'.. George Bernard Shaw
'Women have no sympathy and my experience of women is almost as large as Europe'.. Florence Nightingale
'I always said God was against art and I still believe it.'.. Edward Elgar
'I sometimes think that being widowed is God's way of telling you to come off the Pill.'.. Victoria Wood
'People do not believe lies because they have to, but because they want to'.. Malcolm Muggeridge