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Famous British Quotes
'With two small children, I haven't had a wash since 2001 so the chance to go shopping is way down the list. It is something I do intend to get'.. Jo Brand
'There are only two styles of portrait painting; the serious and the smirk.'.. Charles Dickens
'We always love those who admire us; we do not always love those whom we admire.'.. Rupert Brooke
'One cannot really be a Catholic and grown up.'.. George Orwell
'A gentleman is one who never hurts anyone's feelings unintentionally'.. Oscar Wilde
'Freedom is the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.'.. George Orwell
'Everywhere in life, the true question is not what we gain, but what we do.'.. Thomas Carlyle
'Andrew Marr looks like Martin Clunes with a little of the air let out of him'.. Jo Brand
'Life is wasted on the living'.. Douglas Adams
'Motion is tranquility.'.. Stirling Moss
'In trouble to be troubled, Is to have your trouble doubled.'.. Daniel Defoe
'Ask the right questions if you're to find the right answers.'.. Vanessa Redgrave
'Incongruity is the mainspring of laughter.'.. Max Beerbohm
'You'll find that empty vessels make the most sound'.. John Lydon (Johnny Rotten)
'Possession isn't nine-tenths of the law. It's nine-tenths of the problem'.. John Lennon
'I think I am a child. Everything blows my mind.'.. Marc Bolan
'A yawn is a silent shout'.. GK Chesterton
'The past is a great place and I don't want to erase it or to regret it, but I don't want to be its prisoner either'.. Mick Jagger
'Before you can do something you must first be something.'.. John Gielgud
'Every man who is high up likes to think that he has done it all himself, and the wife smiles and lets it go at that'.. J M Barrie
'The kind of people who always go on about whether a thing is in good taste invariably have very bad taste'.. Joe Orton
'Everyone who wants to do good to the human race always ends in universal bullying'.. Aldous Huxley
'Fortunate indeed the child who first sees the light of day in that romantic town'.. Andrew Carnegie
'He who sows hurry reaps indigestion.'.. Robert Louis Stevenson
'Great bodies of people are never responsible for what they do.'.. Virginia Woolf
'Nothing is so fatal to religion as indifference.'.. Edmund Burke
'Nonsense and beauty have close connections.'.. E M Forster
'My wife is a sex object - every time I ask for sex, she objects.'.. Les Dawson
'It is most unwise for people in love to marry.'.. George Bernard Shaw
'Music and woman I cannot but give way to, whatever my business is.'.. Samuel Pepys