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Famous British Quotes
'When a man is tired of London, he is tired of life; for there is in London all that life can afford.'.. Samuel Johnson
'You should not take a fellow eight years old and make him swear to never kiss the girls'.. Robert Browning
'Comedy, we may say, is society protecting itself - with a smile.'.. J B Priestley
'Full, saturated colours have an emotional significance I want to avoid.'.. Lucien Freud
'The things most people want to know about are usually none of their business.'.. George Bernard Shaw
'Presteigne - Neither in England nor Wales, simply in Radnorshire'.. George Borrow
'We are not just here to manage capitalism but to change society and to define its finer values'.. Tony Benn
'A horse is dangerous at both ends and uncomfortable in the middle.'.. Ian Fleming
'I believe the first test of a truly great man is in his humility.'.. John Ruskin
'If I were compelled to choose between living in west bromwich or florence I would make straight for west bromwich'.. J B Priestley
'I used to go missing a lot...Miss Canada, Miss United Kingdom, Miss World.'.. George Best
'It is a dangerous thing to have instant access to your emotions.'.. Dennis Potter
'To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only meaning of life.'.. Robert Louis Stevenson
'A man's friendships are one of the best measures of his worth.'.. Charles Darwin
'A gentleman is one who puts more into the world than he takes out'.. George Bernard Shaw
'Theres only one thing worse than an Estate Agent but that can be safely lanced, drained and surgically dressed.'.. Stephen Fry
'Love is only a dirty trick played on us to achieve continuation of the species.'.. Somerset Maugham
'Writing is an antidote for loneliness.'.. Steven Berkoff
'Cynicism is humour in ill health.'.. H G Wells
'I have never acted on a press release or gone out to dinner with a PR. I think PR is a ridiculous job. They are the headlice of civilisation'.. A A Gill
'A mere copier of nature can never produce anything great.'.. Joshua Reynolds
'The function of posterity is to look after itself.'.. Dylan Thomas
'Parents are the bones on which children cut their teeth.'.. Peter Ustinov
'Every man desires to live long, but no man wishes to be old.'.. Jonathan Swift
'Old Professors never die, they just lose their faculties.'.. Stephen Fry
'Good and bad men are less than they seem.'.. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
'Credit is a system whereby a person who can not pay gets another person who can not pay to guarantee that he can pay.'.. Charles Dickens
'I am in that temper that if I were under water I would scarcely kick to come to the top'.. John Keats
'Rolf Harris is a difficult man to hate but that shouldnt stop us trying'.. A A Gill
'Sleep, that deplorable curtailment of the joy of life.'.. Virginia Woolf