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Famous British Quotes
'Every man dies. Not every man really lives.'.. William Wallace
'Impropriety is the soul of wit.'.. Somerset Maugham
'Talent, lying in the understanding, is often inherited; genius, being the action of reason or imagination, rarely or never'.. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
'The habit of religion is oppressive, an easy way out of thought.'.. Peter Ustinov
'It is impossible to enjoy idling thoroughly unless one has plenty of work to do'.. Jerome K Jerome
'Ask the right questions if you're to find the right answers.'.. Vanessa Redgrave
'It is a farce to call any being virtuous whose virtues do not result from the exercise of it's own reason'.. Mary Shelley
'I do not live in the world of sobriety.'.. Oliver Reed
'Every man's memory is his private literature.'.. Aldous Huxley
'If a man's wit be wandering, let him study the mathematics.'.. Sir Francis Bacon
'Any fool can write a novel but it takes real genius to sell it.'.. James G Ballard
'There is no real wealth but the labor of man.'.. Percy Bysshe Shelley
'The individual is not accountable to society for his actions in so far as these concern the interests of no person but himself.'.. John Stuart Mill
'Public opinion polls are rather like children in a garden, digging things up all the time to see how they're growing.'.. J B Priestley
'If Hitler invaded hell I would make at least a favorable reference to the devil in the House of Commons.'.. Winston Churchill
'How paramount the future is to the present when one is surrounded by children.'.. Charles Darwin
'To his dog, every man is Napoleon; hence the constant popularity of dogs.'.. Aldous Huxley
'I think that by ignoring the show you're ignoring the audience who put you there'.. Simon Cowell
'The way to tell if a man is sexually excited is to check if he is breathing'.. Jo Brand
'To wait idly is the worst of conditions.'.. Robert Falcon Scott
'Acting is half shame, half glory. Shame at exhibiting yourself, glory when you can forget yoursel'.. John Gielgud
'No brilliance is needed in the law. Nothing but common sense, and relatively clean finger nails.'.. Sir John Mortimer
'It takes little talent to see what lies under one's nose, a good deal to know in what direction to point that organ.'.. W H Auden
'Dunblane Cathedral - I know not of anything so perfect in its simplicity'.. John Ruskin
'War is a quarrel between two thieves too cowardly to fight their own battle.'.. Thomas Carlyle
'If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear'.. George Orwell
'A man lives by believing something: not by debating and arguing about many things.'.. Thomas Carlyle
'Expectation is the root of all heartache.'.. William Shakespeare
'Now this is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning'.. Winston Churchill
'My wife is a sex object - every time I ask for sex, she objects.'.. Les Dawson