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Famous British Quotes
'The media. It sounds like a convention of spiritualists.'.. Sir Tom Stoppard
'Advertising is the rattling of a stick inside a swill bucket.'.. George Orwell
'Actors search for rejection. If they don't get it they reject themselves.'.. Charlie Chaplin
'Exhilaration is that feeling you get just after a great idea hits you, and just before you realize what`s wrong with it.'.. Rex Harrison
'A room hung with pictures is a room hung with thoughts.'.. Joshua Reynolds
'Great bodies of people are never responsible for what they do.'.. Virginia Woolf
'One might well say that mankind is divisible into two great classes: hosts and guests'.. Max Beerbohm
'England expects that every man will do his duty.'.. Horatio Nelson
'Any subject can be made interesting, and therefore any subject can be made boring'.. Hilaire Belloc
'If slaughterhouses had glass walls, everyone would be a vegetarian.'.. Paul McCartney
'My opinion is that a poet should express the emotion of all the ages and the thought of his own.'.. Thomas Hardy
'I am in that temper that if I were under water I would scarcely kick to come to the top'.. John Keats
'America: It's like Britain, only with buttons.'.. Ringo Starr
'We always have been, we are, and I hope that we always will be detested in France'.. Duke of Wellington
'Elegance is inferior to virtue.'.. Mary Shelley
'Don't accept the old order. Get rid of it.'.. John Lydon (Johnny Rotten)
'Always be a little kinder than necessary.'.. J M Barrie
'I see myself as a roving mosquito, choosing it's target.'.. Kenneth Williams
'Our doubts are traitors and make us lose the good we oft might win by fearing to attempt.'.. William Shakespeare
'Very few of us are what we seem'.. Agatha Christie
'I then realized my appearance was a bit odd. My right leg was no longer with me. It had caught somewhere in the top of the cockpit as I tried to leave my Spitfire.'.. Douglas Bader
'Dorchester - A very agreeable town to live in'.. Daniel Defoe
'Instead of this absurd division into sexes they ought to class people as static and dynamic.'.. Evelyn Waugh
'I owe nothing to Women's Lib.'.. Margaret Thatcher
'Women want love to be a novel, men a short story.'.. Daphne du Maurier
'A little sincerity is a dangerous thing, and a great deal of it is absolutely fatal'.. Oscar Wilde
'Some folk want their luck buttered'.. Thomas Hardy
'Do not let spacious plans for a new world divert your energies from saving what is left of the old'.. Winston Churchill
'All the world over, I will back the masses against the classes.'.. W E Gladstone
'A resolution to avoid an evil is seldom framed till the evil is so far advanced as to make avoidance impossible'.. Thomas Hardy