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Famous British Quotes
'Even as a junkie I stayed true [to vegetarianism] - 'I shall have heroin, but I shan't have a hamburger.' What a sexy little paradox'.. Russell Brand
'All the flower children were as alike as a congress of accountants and about as interesting.'.. Sir John Mortimer
'Fortunate indeed the child who first sees the light of day in that romantic town'.. Andrew Carnegie
'Chester pleases my fancy more than any other place I ever saw'.. James Boswell
'People who say it cannot be done should not interrupt those who are doing it'.. George Bernard Shaw
'To truly laugh, you must be able to take your pain, and play with it!'.. Charlie Chaplin
'Consciousness is an end in itself. We torture ourselves getting somewhere, and when we get there it is nowhere, for there is nowhere to get to.'.. D H Lawrence
'Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown.'.. William Shakespeare
'There's no possibility of being witty without a little ill-nature.'.. Richard Sheridan
'You can give without loving, but you can never love without giving.'.. Robert Louis Stevenson
'Women are for bastmen, beer is for bowlers. God help the all-rounders!'.. Fred Trueman
'You will find in politics that you are much exposed to the attribution of false motive. Never complain and never explain'.. Stanley Baldwin
'And yet to every bad there is a worse.'.. Thomas Hardy
'Death destroys a man, but the idea of death saves him.'.. E M Forster
'A woman uses her intelligence to find reasons to support her intuition'.. GK Chesterton
'The poetry of the earth is never dead.'.. John Keats
'Diplomacy, is the art of letting somebody else have your way.'.. David Frost
'Time and tide wait for no man.'.. Geoffrey Chaucer
'If I played Hamlet, they`d call it a horror film'.. Peter Cushing
'By gnawing through a dike, even a rat may drown a nation.'.. Edmund Burke
'I owe nothing to Women's Lib.'.. Margaret Thatcher
'Without humility there can be no humanity.'.. John Buchan
'There is no sin but ignorance.'.. Christopher Marlowe
'The four characteristics of humanism are curiosity, a free mind, belief in good taste, and belief in the human race.'.. E M Forster
'What loneliness is more lonely than distrust?'.. George Eliot
'The world is a stage, but the play is badly cast.'.. Oscar Wilde
'Man is an animal that makes bargains: no other animal does this - no dog exchanges bones with another.'.. Adam Smith
'That's all drugs and alcohol do, they cut off your emotions in the end.'.. Ringo Starr
'Looking back at all the people I have insulted, I am mildly surprised that I am still allowed to exist.'.. Auberon Waugh
'Subdue your appetites, my dears, and you've conquered human nature.'.. Charles Dickens