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Famous British Quotes
'When thinking about companions gone, we feel ourselves doubly alone.'.. Walter Scott
'Bexhill on Sea is a peck on the cheek: Hastings is a lolloping tongue down the throat'.. Jo Brand
'Pessimist: One who, when he has the choice of two evils, chooses both'.. Oscar Wilde
'Other nations use 'force'; we Britons alone use 'Might'.'.. Evelyn Waugh
'Only in Britain could it be thought a defect to be too clever by half. The probability is that too many people are too stupid by three-quarters.'.. John Major
'Everybody grows but me.'.. Queen Victoria
'Every war when it comes, or before it comes, is represented not as a war but as an act of self-defense against a homicidal maniac'.. George Orwell
'You can get an Englishman to do anything simply by whispering in his ear "I know your guilty secret"'.. P G Wodehouse
'If you're holding out for universal popularity, I'm afraid you will be in this cabin for a very long time.'.. J K Rowling
'Sexual intercourse is like having someone else blow your nose'.. Philip Larkin
'Filth and old age, I'm sure you will agree, are powerful wardens upon chastity.'.. Geoffrey Chaucer
'Nature, to be commanded, must be obeyed.'.. Sir Francis Bacon
'The worst enemy of life, freedom and the common decencies is total anarchy; their second worst enemy is total efficiency.'.. Aldous Huxley
'If my critics saw me walking over the Thames they would say it was because I couldn't swim'.. Margaret Thatcher
'I am not aware that any community has a right to force another to be civilized.'.. John Stuart Mill
'Swansea - Ugh, Lovely town'.. Dylan Thomas
'The delicate balance between modesty and conceit is popularity.'.. Max Beerbohm
'I never had lunch in Brighton without wanting to take a woman to bed in the afternoon'.. John Osborne
'I'm all in favour of free expression provided it's kept rigidly under control.'.. Alan Bennett
'Human blunders usually do more to shape history than human wickedness.'.. A J P Taylor
'Every dog must have his day.'.. Jonathan Swift
'I think that by ignoring the show you're ignoring the audience who put you there'.. Simon Cowell
'I used to look at these pictures of trumpeters pointing their instrument to the ceiling. Stunning pictures, but if you play the trumpet and point it upwards, all the spit comes back into your mouth!'.. Humphrey Lyttleton
'Autumn wins you best by this its mute appeal to sympathy for its decay.'.. Robert Browning
'I don't know many singers who actually do like the sound of their own voice'.. Roger Daltrey
'I became one of the Stately Homos of England'.. Quentin Crisp
'Dancing is the poetry of the foot.'.. John Dryden
'My Father had a profound influence on me, he was a lunatic.'.. Spike Milligan
'If a farmer fills his barn with grain, he gets mice. If he leaves it empty, he gets actors'.. Walter Scott
'Carry out a random act of kindness, with no expectation of reward, safe in the knowledge that one day someone might do the same for you.'.. Diana Spencer