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Famous British Quotes
'Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children.'.. George Bernard Shaw
'There are only two styles of portrait painting; the serious and the smirk.'.. Charles Dickens
'There are some men who are improved by drinking; as there are fruits that are not good until they are rotten.'.. Samuel Johnson
'The perfect love affair is one which is conducted entirely by post.'.. George Bernard Shaw
'Necessity dispenseth with decorum.'.. Thomas Carlyle
'I never deliberately set out to shock, but when people don't walk out of my plays I think there is something wrong.'.. John Osborne
'I'll give you my opinion of the human race in a nutshell... their heart's in the right place, but their head is a thoroughly inefficient organ.'.. Somerset Maugham
'Man hands on misery to man. It deepens like a coastal shelf. Get out as early as you can, and don't have any kids yourself'.. Philip Larkin
'For most of history, Anonymous was a woman.'.. Virginia Woolf
'I think we have all experienced passion that is not in any sense reasonable.'.. Stephen Fry
'In heaven an angel is nobody in particular.'.. George Bernard Shaw
'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
'All I can think of the Middle Ages is that everything must have chafed terribly'.. A A Gill
'A cricketer's life is a life of splendid freedom, healthy effort, endless variety, and delightful good fellowship'.. W G Grace
'Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.'.. Winston Churchill
'Do not try to live forever. You will not succeed.'.. George Bernard Shaw
'If I were compelled to choose between living in west bromwich or florence I would make straight for west bromwich'.. J B Priestley
'I have no intention of uttering my last words on stage. A couple of depraved young girls and room service will do me fine'.. Peter O’Toole
'A public schoolboy must be acceptable at a dance and invaluable in a shipwreck'.. Alan Bennett
'I am prepared to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter.'.. Winston Churchill
'Men! The only animal in the world to fear.'.. D H Lawrence
'Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.'.. T S Eliot
'Love works a different way in different minds, the fool it enlightens and the wise it blinds'.. John Dryden
'However I dress it up, I was a spy and I am not proud of it'.. Christine Keeler
'Who's ever going to write a film in which I get the girl? Me!'.. John Cleese
'The future is purchased by the present.'.. Samuel Johnson
'The only rule I have found to have any validity in writing is not to bore yourself.'.. Sir John Mortimer
'We wander for distraction, but we travel for fulfillment.'.. Hilaire Belloc
'Childhood is measured out by sounds and smells and sights, before the dark hour of reason grows.'.. John Betjeman
'The worst moment for the atheist is when he is really thankful and has nobody to thank.'.. Dante G Rossetti