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Famous British Quotes
'I may be drunk, Miss, but in the morning I will be sober and you will still be ugly.'.. Winston Churchill
'You may travel the world over but you will find nowhere more beautiful; It is so restful, so colourful and so unspoilt (Tenby)'.. Augustus John
'To refuse awards is another way of accepting them with more noise than is normal'.. Peter Ustinov
'I never deliberately set out to shock, but when people don't walk out of my plays I think there is something wrong.'.. John Osborne
'He travels best that knows when to return.'.. Thomas More
'The trouble with orgies is that you have to spend so much time holding your stomach in'.. Sir John Mortimer
'Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons'.. Bertrand Russell
'Bournemouth is one of the few English towns that one can safely call 'her''.. John Betjeman
'Freedom is the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.'.. George Orwell
'Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard are sweeter.'.. John Keats
'I don't watch television, I think it destroys the art of talking about oneself.'.. Stephen Fry
'Having children is like having a bowling alley installed in your brain'.. Alan Bleasdale
'We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another'.. Jonathan Swift
'Greenwich possesses the best air, the best prospect and the best conversation'.. Daniel Defoe
''Tis the last rose of summer Left blooming alone; All her lovely companions Are faded and gone.'.. Thomas More
'It is sometimes necessary to lie damnably in the interests of the nation'.. Hilaire Belloc
'Life appears to me too short to be spent in nursing animosity, or registering wrongs.'.. Charlotte Bronte
'Let us not forget that we can never go farther than we can persuade at least half of the people to go'.. Hugh Gaitskell
'Discretion is the perfection of reason, and a guide to us in all the duties of life.'.. Walter Scott
'The great advantage of being in a rut is that when one is in a rut one knows exactly where one is'.. Alan Bennett
'Nothing, like something, happens anywhere.'.. Philip Larkin
'To see a world in a grain of sand and heaven in a wild flower Hold infinity in the palms of your hand and eternity in an hour'.. William Blake
'The fickleness of the women I love is only equalled by the infernal constancy of the women who love me'.. George Bernard Shaw
'A perpetual holiday is a good working definition of hell.'.. George Bernard Shaw
'It is obvious that we can no more explain a passion to a person who has never experienced it than we can explain light to the blind.'.. T S Eliot
'What I am looking for is a blessing not in disguise.'.. Jerome K Jerome
'For truth is always strange; stranger than fiction.'.. Lord Byron
'I would rather trust a woman's instinct than a man's reason.'.. Stanley Baldwin
'I don't believe one grows older. I think that what happens early on in life is that at a certain age one stands still and stagnates.'.. T S Eliot
'It is very good advice to believe only what an artist does, rather than what he says about his work.'.. David Hockney