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Famous British Quotes
'To enjoy freedom we have to control ourselves.'.. Virginia Woolf
'The fashionable woman wears clothes. The clothes don't wear her.'.. Mary Quant
'That great Cathedral space which was childhood.'.. Virginia Woolf
'An intellectual is a person who's found one thing that's more interesting than sex.'.. Aldous Huxley
'Grab a chance and you won't be sorry for a might-have-been.'.. Arthur Ransome
'An unexciting truth may be eclipsed by a thrilling lie.'.. Aldous Huxley
'The disease which inflicts bureaucracy and what they usually die from is routine'.. John Stuart Mill
'A man without a goal is like a ship without a rudder.'.. Thomas Carlyle
'No one does anything from a single motive.'.. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
'Being deaf and partially blind means I don't really watch TV. I wouldn't know what to do with a remote control.'.. Eric Sykes
'I can make a lord, but only God can make a gentleman.'.. James I
'A man that hoards up riches and enjoys them not, is like an ass that carries gold and eats thistles'.. Richard Burton
'I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite'.. GK Chesterton
'A true friend stabs you in the front.'.. Oscar Wilde
'When I make a joke I always laugh quickly so there is no doubt about it'.. Somerset Maugham
'I have nothing to declare except my genuis.'.. Oscar Wilde
'The greatest pleasure I know is to do a good action by stealth and have it found out by accident.'.. Charles Lamb
'To myself I am only a child playing on the beach, while vast oceans of truth lie undiscovered before me'.. Isaac Newton
'You have no idea what a poor opinion I have of myself and how little I deserve it'.. W S Gilbert
'A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty'.. Winston Churchill
'A State without the means of some change is without the means of its conservation.'.. Edmund Burke
'He who seeks rest finds boredom. He who seeks work finds rest.'.. Dylan Thomas
'I used to desire many, many things, but now I have just one desire, and that's to get rid of all my other desires'.. John Cleese
'Chastity - the most unnatural of all the sexual perversions.'.. Aldous Huxley
'I have no consistency, except in politics; and that probably arises from my indifference to the subject altogether'.. Lord Byron
'Beware the fury of a patient man.'.. John Dryden
'Not where I breathe, but where I love, I live; Not where I love, but where I am, I die'.. Robert Southey
'To sentence a man of true genius, to the drudgery of a school is to put a racehorse on a treadmill'.. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
'All wealth is the product of labour.'.. John Locke
'To succeed with the opposite sex, tell her you're impotent. She can't wait to disprove it.'.. Cary Grant