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Famous British Quotes
'You cannot teach old dogs new tricks.'.. Joseph Chamberlain
'Sexual intercourse is like having someone else blow your nose'.. Philip Larkin
'Power without principle is barren, but principle without power is futile'.. Tony Blair
'It is not true that drink changes a man's character. It may reveal it more clearly.'.. John Osborne
'Riches are a good hand maiden, but a poor mistress.'.. Sir Francis Bacon
'I left England when I was 4 when I discovered that I couldnt be king'.. Bob Hope
'A fanatic is a man who consciously over compensates a secret doubt.'.. Aldous Huxley
'Swansea - Ugh, Lovely town'.. Dylan Thomas
'Fear is the mother of foresight.'.. Thomas Hardy
'Nature, to be commanded, must be obeyed.'.. Sir Francis Bacon
'Criticism, that fine flower of personal expression in the garden of letters'.. Joseph Conrad
'A family with the wrong members in control; that, perhaps, is as near as one can come to describing England in a phrase.'.. George Orwell
'There is not a more repulsive spectacle than on old man who will not forsake the world, which has already forsaken him.'.. T S Eliot
'Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard are sweeter.'.. John Keats
'Everyone seems to fear dying alone. I have never understood this - who wants to die and be polite at the same time'.. Quentin Crisp
'Drama is life with the dull bits cut out.'.. Alfred Hitchcock
'Art is born of humiliation.'.. W H Auden
'I wouldn't dream of taking life as it comes. It may not be colour co-ordinated'.. Julian Clary
'Great discoveries and improvements invariably involve the cooperation of many minds'.. Alexander Graham Bell
'People always make war when they say they love peace.'.. D H Lawrence
'Man tends to increase at a greater rate than his means of subsistence.'.. Charles Darwin
'I think in terms of the day's resolutions, not the years'.'.. Henry Moore
'If I were to choose where I was to die it would be in the herbaceous border'.. Miriam Stoppard
'Literature is strewn with the wreckage of men who have minded beyond reason the opinions of others'.. Virginia Woolf
'One man's wage increase is another man's price increase.'.. Harold Wilson
'It is my settled opinion that no one is attracted to a political career in the first place unless he is socially or emotionally crippled'.. Auberon Waugh
'There is no sin but ignorance.'.. Christopher Marlowe
'Media is just a word that has come to mean bad journalism.'.. Graham Greene
'I used to go missing a lot...Miss Canada, Miss United Kingdom, Miss World.'.. George Best
'I do not wish women to have power over men; but over themselves'.. Mary Shelley