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Famous British Quotes
'It is curious that every creed promises a paradise on death which is unthinkable for anyone of taste'.. Evelyn Waugh
'Pity those who nature abuses; never those who abuse nature.'.. Richard Sheridan
'Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.'.. George Bernard Shaw
'A man does not know what he is saying until he knows what he is not saying'.. GK Chesterton
'History is a cyclic poem written by time upon the memories of man'.. Percy Bysshe Shelley
'If you tell the truth, you have infinite power supporting you; but if not, you have infinite power against you'.. Charles George Gordon
'It is our responsibilities, not ourselves, that we should take seriously.'.. Peter Ustinov
'Every man over forty is a scoundrel.'.. George Bernard Shaw
'Dinner parties are given most in the middle classes by way of revenge'.. William M Thackeray
'Art is our chief means of breaking bread with the dead.'.. W H Auden
'Elegance is inferior to virtue.'.. Mary Shelley
'Some of my best leading men have been dogs and horses.'.. Elizabeth Taylor
'Even as a junkie I stayed true [to vegetarianism] - 'I shall have heroin, but I shan't have a hamburger.' What a sexy little paradox'.. Russell Brand
'You can preach a better sermon with your life than with your lips.'.. Oliver Goldsmith
'Civilisation is the distance man has put between himself and his excreta'.. Brian Aldiss
'Who, being loved, is poor?'.. Oscar Wilde
'Ale, man, ale's the stuff to drink for fellows whom it hurts to think.'.. A E Housman
'All conservatism is based upon the idea that if you leave things alone you leave them as they are. But you do not. If you leave a thing alone you leave it to a torrent of change'.. GK Chesterton
'Success - keeping your mind awake and your desire asleep.'.. Walter Scott
'It is so pleasant to come across people more stupid than ourselves. We love them at once for being so'.. Jerome K Jerome
'If they make it illegal to wear the veil at work, bee keepers are going to be furious'.. Milton Jones
'Every man desires to live long, but no man wishes to be old.'.. Jonathan Swift
'A common mistake people make when trying to design something is underestimating the ingenuity of fools'.. Douglas Adams
'Lack of money is the root of all evil.'.. George Bernard Shaw
'Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.'.. Oscar Wilde
'Old men are dangerous: it doesn't matter to them what is going to happen to the world'.. George Bernard Shaw
'There seem to me to be very few facts, at least ascertainable facts, in politics'.. Robert Peel
'But better die than live mechanically a life that is a repetition of repetitions.'.. D H Lawrence
'I have a memory like an elephant. In fact, elephants often consult me.'.. Noel Coward
'Artists are like everybody else.'.. Damien Hirst