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Famous British Quotes
'Any fool can write a novel but it takes real genius to sell it.'.. James G Ballard
'Comedy is simply a funny way of being serious.'.. Peter Ustinov
'The best research for playing a drunk is being a British actor for 20 years'.. Michael Caine
'It is with words as with sunbeams - the more they are condensed, the deeper they burn'.. Robert Southey
'For all my education, accomplishments, and so called 'wisdom'... I can't fathom my own heart'.. Michael Caine
'Don't accept the old order. Get rid of it.'.. John Lydon (Johnny Rotten)
'Save your money. You're going to need twice as much money in your old age as you think'.. Michael Caine
'Always laugh when you can. It is cheap medicine.'.. Lord Byron
'A room without books is like a body without a soul.'.. GK Chesterton
'The war between the sexes is the only one in which both sides regularly sleep with the enemy'.. Quentin Crisp
'Power is not a means, it is an end'.. George Orwell
'To sentence a man of true genius, to the drudgery of a school is to put a racehorse on a treadmill'.. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
'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 thing with Hi-Tech is that you always end up using scissors'.. David Hockney
'Tact is the art of making a point without making an enemy.'.. Isaac Newton
'Bad humor is an evasion of reality; good humor is an acceptance of it.'.. Malcolm Muggeridge
'Put three Englishmen on a desert island and within an hour they will have invented a class system'.. Alan Ayckbourn
'A toddling little girl is a centre of common feeling which makes the most dissimilar people understand each other.'.. George Eliot
'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
'Being a woman is a terribly difficult task, since it consists principally in dealing with men.'.. Joseph Conrad
'In times of joy, all of us wished we possessed a tail we could wag.'.. W H Auden
'You cannot teach old dogs new tricks.'.. Joseph Chamberlain
'A State without the means of some change is without the means of its conservation.'.. Edmund Burke
'The human species, according to the best theory I can form of it, is composed of two distinct races, the men who borrow and the men who lend.'.. Charles Lamb
'The greatest scholars are not usually the wisest people.'.. Geoffrey Chaucer
'I never saw a wild thing sorry for itself. A small bird will drop frozen dead from a bough without ever having felt sorry for itself.'.. D H Lawrence
'He was a bold man that first eat on oyster.'.. Jonathan Swift
'Time is but the shadow of the world upon the background of Eternity.'.. Jerome K Jerome
'If you tell the truth, you have infinite power supporting you; but if not, you have infinite power against you'.. Charles George Gordon
'England has always been disinclined to accept human nature.'.. E M Forster