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Famous British Quotes
'There are some things only intellectuals are crazy enough to believe'.. George Orwell
'Nothing is more obstinate than a fashionable consensus.'.. Margaret Thatcher
'The art galleries of Paris contain the finest collection of frames I ever saw'.. Humphry Davy
'If you had a face like mine, you'd punch me right on the nose, and I'm just the fella to do it.'.. Stan Laurel
'It is not reasonable that those who gamble with men's lives should not stake their own.'.. H G Wells
'There are only four people who knew what the Beatles were about anyway.'.. Paul McCartney
'The pain of parting is nothing to the joy of meeting again.'.. Charles Dickens
'Melancholy, indeed, should be diverted by every means but drinking.'.. Samuel Johnson
'There's nothing as ordinary as to try to be extraodinary'.. Noel Coward
'I'm always looking for meaningful one-night stands'.. Dudley Moore
'Sleep, that deplorable curtailment of the joy of life.'.. Virginia Woolf
'Those who will not reason, are bigots, those who cannot, are fools, and those who dare not, are slaves'.. Lord Byron
'Sometimes the first duty of intelligent men is the restatement of the obvious'.. George Orwell
'Honest people don't hide their deeds.'.. Emily Bronte
'Comedy is simply a funny way of being serious.'.. Peter Ustinov
'To generalize is to be an idiot.'.. William Blake
'There are no such things as Flowers there are only gladdened Leaves.'.. John Ruskin
'How very little can be done under the spirit of fear.'.. Florence Nightingale
'Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel.'.. Samuel Johnson
'How inappropriate to call this planet Earth when it is quite clearly Ocean.'.. Arthur C Clarke
'When people tell you how young you look, they are telling you how old you are.'.. Cary Grant
'A dog is for life and not just for christmas so do be careful at the office party'.. Jimmy Carr
'There but for the grace of God goes God'.. Winston Churchill
'Justice and judgment lie often a world apart.'.. Emmeline Pankhurst
'About a month before he died, my grandfather, we covered his back full of lard – after that he went downhill very quickly'.. Milton Jones
'A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.'.. Douglas Adams
'Sooner or later everyone sits down to a banquet of consequences.'.. Robert Louis Stevenson
'Nature uses as little as possible of anything'.. Alan Bleasdale
'For all my education, accomplishments, and so called 'wisdom'... I can't fathom my own heart'.. Michael Caine
'An aim in life is the only fortune worth finding.'.. Robert Louis Stevenson