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Famous British Quotes
'I may be drunk, Miss, but in the morning I will be sober and you will still be ugly.'.. Winston Churchill
'Boredom is the legitimate kingdom of the philanthropic.'.. Virginia Woolf
'Flying is learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.'.. Douglas Adams
'God has two dwellings; one in heaven, and the other in a meek and thankful heart.'.. Izaak Walton
'Progress everywhere today does seem to come so very heavily disguised as Chaos'.. Joyce Grenfell
'Pleasure is none, if not diversified.'.. John Donne
'It's not wise to violate rules until you know how to observe them.'.. T S Eliot
'Gentleman do not throw wine at ladies. They pour it over them'.. Auberon Waugh
'Life contains but two tragedies. One is not to get your heart's desire; the other is to get it.'.. George Bernard Shaw
'If you are cast in a different mould to the majority, it is no merit of yours: Nature did it.'.. Charlotte Bronte
'Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel.'.. Samuel Johnson
'WH Auden didnt love God, he just fancied him'.. Stephen Spender
'We are a small country with a large sense of its own importance'.. David Walliams
'In my end is my beginning.'.. Mary, Queen of Scots
'Absence - that common cure of love.'.. Lord Byron
'Assassination has never changed the history of the world.'.. Benjamin Disraeli
'Death is the sound of distant thunder at a picnic.'.. W H Auden
'We wander for distraction, but we travel for fulfillment.'.. Hilaire Belloc
'To see a world in a grain of sand and heaven in a wild flower Hold infinity in the palms of your hand and eternity in an hour'.. William Blake
'Unintelligent people always look for a scapegoat.'.. Ernest Bevin
'Serious sport is war minus the shooting.'.. George Orwell
'The one great principle of English Law is to make business for itself'.. Charles Dickens
'Our true nationality is mankind.'.. H G Wells
'Every man dies. Not every man really lives.'.. William Wallace
'All men are liable to error; and most men are, in many points, by passion or interest, under temptation to it.'.. John Locke
'May not the complaint, that common people are above their station, often take its rise in the fact of uncommon people being below theirs?'.. Charles Dickens
'Soldiers are citizens of death's grey land, drawing no dividend from time's tomorrows'.. Siegfried Sassoon
'The British tourist is always happy abroad as long as the natives are waiters'.. Robert Morley
'People are wrong when they say opera is not what it used to be. It is what it used to be. That is what's wrong with it.'.. Noel Coward
'It's so easy for propaganda to work, and dissent to be mocked.'.. Harold Pinter