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Famous British Quotes
'Christianity will go. It will vanish and shrink. I needn't argue with that; I'm right and I will be proved right.'.. John Lennon
'Money is like manure, of very little use except it be spread.'.. Sir Francis Bacon
'A fashion is nothing but an induced epidemic.'.. George Bernard Shaw
'I have called this principle, by which each slight variation, if useful, is preserved, by the term of Natural Selection.'.. Charles Darwin
'There are some men who are improved by drinking; as there are fruits that are not good until they are rotten.'.. Samuel Johnson
'My whole life is waiting for the questions to which I have prepared answers.'.. Sir Tom Stoppard
'Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children.'.. George Bernard Shaw
'He that gives good advice, builds with one hand; he that gives good counsel and example, builds with both'.. Sir Francis Bacon
'I've sometimes thought of marrying - and then I've thought again.'.. Noel Coward
''Tis the last rose of summer Left blooming alone; All her lovely companions Are faded and gone.'.. Thomas More
'Time and tide wait for no man.'.. Geoffrey Chaucer
'He has all of the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.'.. Winston Churchill
'Animals are my friends... and I don't eat my friends.'.. George Bernard Shaw
'You only require two things in life: your sanity and your wife.'.. Tony Blair
'If Hitler invaded hell I would make at least a favorable reference to the devil in the House of Commons.'.. Winston Churchill
'Authority has every reason to fear the skeptic, for authority can rarely survive in the face of doubt'.. Vita Sackville-West
'I do not live in the world of sobriety.'.. Oliver Reed
'All men have an instinct for conflict: at least, all healthy men.'.. Hilaire Belloc
'Everything government touches turns to crap.'.. Ringo Starr
'The individual is not accountable to society for his actions in so far as these concern the interests of no person but himself.'.. John Stuart Mill
'As love without esteem is capricious and volatile; esteem without love is languid and cold.'.. Jonathan Swift
'Fashion is what you adopt when you dont know who you are'.. Quentin Crisp
'The length of a film should be directly determined by the endurance of the human bladder'.. Alfred Hitchcock
'Nothing is pleasant that is not spiced with variety.'.. Sir Francis Bacon
'I wanted above all else not to be like my mum.'.. Julie Walters
'The one haunting and exasperatingly lovable city in Scotland'.. Lewis Gibbon
'When I was a nurse my favourite assignment was the anorexia ward. I sometimes had 17 dinners'.. Jo Brand
'He that undervalues himself will undervalue others, and he that undervalues others will oppress them'.. Samuel Johnson
'I love everything that's old, - old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wine'.. Oliver Goldsmith
'I am in that temper that if I were under water I would scarcely kick to come to the top'.. John Keats