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Famous British Quotes
'A team effort is a lot of people doing what I say'.. Michael Winner
'History develops, art stands still.'.. E M Forster
'Life is a comedy for those who think... and a tragedy for those who feel'.. Horace Walpole
'Reverence is fatal to literature.'.. E M Forster
'Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable'.. Sir Francis Bacon
'The worst moment for the atheist is when he is really thankful and has nobody to thank.'.. Dante G Rossetti
'It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend.'.. William Blake
'Life’s never a postcard of life, is it? It never feels like how you’d want it to look'.. Russell Brand
'I do not live in the world of sobriety.'.. Oliver Reed
'Love is only a dirty trick played on us to achieve continuation of the species.'.. Somerset Maugham
'Man is the only creature that consumes without producing. He does not give milk, he does not lay eggs, he is too weak to pull the plough, he cannot run fast enough to catch rabbits. Yet he is lord of all the animals'.. George Orwell
'I spent many years laughing at Harry Secombe's singing until somebody told me that it wasn't a joke.'.. Spike Milligan
'I like to give my inhibitions a bath now and then.'.. Oliver Reed
'Being pregnant is an occupational hazard of being a wife.'.. Queen Victoria
'I hate people who think it's clever to take drugs... like custom officers'.. Jack Dee
'Chastity - the most unnatural of all the sexual perversions.'.. Aldous Huxley
'Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.'.. George Bernard Shaw
'Never hold discussions with the monkey when the organ grinder is in the room.'.. Winston Churchill
'Parliament must not be told a direct untruth, but it's quite possible to allow them to mislead themselves'.. Norman Tebbit
'A sure cure for seasickness is to sit under a tree.'.. Spike Milligan
'But better die than live mechanically a life that is a repetition of repetitions.'.. D H Lawrence
'Having a great intellect is no path to being happy.'.. Stephen Fry
'The perfect love affair is one which is conducted entirely by post.'.. George Bernard Shaw
'Man is the creature of circumstances.'.. Robert Owen
'Despair is the conclusion of fools.'.. Benjamin Disraeli
'A good book is the precious lifeblood of a master spirit.'.. John Milton
'Unlimited power corrupts the possessor.'.. William Pitt (The Younger)
'I think childhood is to everyone a lost land.'.. Dennis Potter
'Better the rudest work that tells a story or records a fact, than the richest without meaning'.. John Ruskin
'Absences are a good influence in love and keep it bright and delicate.'.. Robert Louis Stevenson