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Famous British Quotes
'I wouldnt say I was the best manager in the business but I was in the top 1'.. Brian Clough
'Life’s never a postcard of life, is it? It never feels like how you’d want it to look'.. Russell Brand
'I cant type but if I could I would rather play the Harpsichord'.. Peter Ustinov
'Better to go than sit around being a terrible old bore.'.. Auberon Waugh
'An election is a moral horror, as bad as a battle except for the blood; a mud bath for every soul concerned in i'.. George Bernard Shaw
'My biggest regret in life is saving David Frost from drowning'.. Peter Cook
'I've never intended to be controversial but it's very easy to be controversial in pop music because nobody ever is'.. Morrissey
'I should like to say that good batsman are born, not made; but my long experience comes up before me, and tells me that it is not so.'.. W G Grace
'So much of left-wing thought is a kind of playing with fire by people who don't even know that fire is hot'.. George Orwell
'Better to reign in hell than serve in heaven'.. John Milton
'When a man is tired of London, he is tired of life; for there is in London all that life can afford.'.. Samuel Johnson
'Chastity - the most unnatural of all the sexual perversions.'.. Aldous Huxley
'A good thing never ends.'.. Mick Jagger
'Nonsense and beauty have close connections.'.. E M Forster
'The trouble with young writers is that they are all in their sixties.'.. Somerset Maugham
'If we have to have Tories, good luck to her. She is the best man among them'.. Barbara Castle
'animals have the vowel sounds; man only can utter consonants'.. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
'Death is the only pure, beautiful conclusion of a great passion.'.. D H Lawrence
'My unhealthy affection for my second daughter has waned. Now I despise all my seven children equally.'.. Evelyn Waugh
'The only fence against the world is a thorough knowledge of it.'.. John Locke
'I'm an optimist, but an optimist who carries a raincoat.'.. Harold Wilson
'Remember the dignity of your womanhood. Do not appeal, do not beg, do not grovel. Take courage, join hands, stand beside us, fight with us.'.. Christabel Pankhurst
'Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.'.. Winston Churchill
'What makes life dreary is the want of a motive.'.. George Eliot
'Tact is the art of making a point without making an enemy.'.. Isaac Newton
'The worlds second worst crime is boredom. The first is being a bore'.. Cecil Beaton
'Presteigne - Neither in England nor Wales, simply in Radnorshire'.. George Borrow
'All men are liable to error; and most men are, in many points, by passion or interest, under temptation to it.'.. John Locke
'The only way of catching a train I have ever discovered is to miss the train before'.. GK Chesterton
'Death, so called, is a thing which makes men weep, And yet a third of life is passed in sleep'.. Lord Byron