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Famous British Quotes
'A man may devote himself to death and destruction to save a nation; but no nation will devote itself to death and destruction to save mankind.'.. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
'Great things are done when men and mountains meet.'.. William Blake
'If you want to see my monument, look around you'.. Christopher Wren
'You will find that the woman who is really kind to dogs is always one who has failed to inspire sympathy in men'.. Max Beerbohm
'History, a distillation of rumour.'.. Thomas Carlyle
'If you can't annoy somebody, there's little point in writing.'.. Sir Kingsley Amis
'The stars, that nature hung in heaven, and filled their lamps with everlasting oil, give due light to the misled and lonely traveller'.. John Milton
'The very essence of instinct is that it's followed independently of reason.'.. Charles Darwin
'Sometimes when you're drunk you can see better.'.. Damien Hirst
'Conceit is the finest armour a man can wear.'.. Jerome K Jerome
'Nothing can be beautiful which is not true.'.. John Ruskin
'All men who have turned out worth anything have had the chief hand in their own education.'.. Walter Scott
'If you think squash is a competitive activity, try flower arranging.'.. Alan Bennett
'I am not, I repeat, NOT a lesbian - even though I'd like to be one when I grow up.'.. Dawn French
'All I ask is the chance to prove that money can't make me happy.'.. Spike Milligan
'Coincidences are spiritual puns.'.. GK Chesterton
'Fortune brings in some boats that are not steered.'.. William Shakespeare
'Necessity has no law.'.. Oliver Cromwell
'The more you understand something, I think the more you can enjoy it.'.. Ricky Gervais
'The worlds second worst crime is boredom. The first is being a bore'.. Cecil Beaton
'This is the first age that's ever paid much attention to the future, which is a little ironic since we may not have one'.. Arthur C Clarke
'Why buy a book when you can join a library'.. Ricky Gervais
'However I dress it up, I was a spy and I am not proud of it'.. Christine Keeler
'All heiresses are beautiful.'.. John Dryden
'Jealousy is the jaundice of the soul.'.. John Dryden
'When we argue for our limitations, we get to keep them.'.. Evelyn Waugh
'If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear'.. George Orwell
'Nothing, like something, happens anywhere.'.. Philip Larkin
'Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.'.. Rudyard Kipling
'Laughter would be bereaved if snobbery died.'.. Peter Ustinov