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Famous British Quotes
'The sound of laughter is the most civilised music in the world'.. Peter Ustinov
'Pity those who nature abuses; never those who abuse nature.'.. Richard Sheridan
'Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past'.. George Orwell
'A gentleman is one who puts more into the world than he takes out'.. George Bernard Shaw
'Elegance is inferior to virtue.'.. Mary Shelley
'I think childhood is to everyone a lost land.'.. Dennis Potter
'It is not an arrogant government that chooses priorities, it's an irresponsible government that fails to choose'.. Tony Blair
'To know one thing, you must know the opposite.'.. Henry Moore
'A fashion is nothing but an induced epidemic.'.. George Bernard Shaw
'The best part of a holiday is not so much to be resting yourself as to see all the other fellows busy working'.. Kenneth Grahame
'There will always be an England even if its in Hollywood'.. Bob Hope
'As usual, there is a great woman behind every idiot.'.. John Lennon
'Love is 2 minutes and 52 seconds of squelching noises'.. John Lydon (Johnny Rotten)
'A man's as old as he's feeling. A woman as old as she looks.'.. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
'I am certainly an ought and not a must.'.. E M Forster
'The only exercise I take is walking behind the coffins of friends who have taken too much exercise'.. Peter O’Toole
'I am not struck so much by the diversity of testimony as by the many-sidedness of truth.'.. Stanley Baldwin
'Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught'.. Oscar Wilde
'Kings govern by means of popular assemblies only when they cannot do without them'.. Charles James Fox
'Whenever a separation is made between liberty and justice, neither, in my opinion, is safe.'.. Edmund Burke
'The essence of being human is that one does not seek perfection'.. George Orwell
'Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.'.. Oscar Wilde
'I wouldn't dream of taking life as it comes. It may not be colour co-ordinated'.. Julian Clary
'Good order is the foundation of all things.'.. Edmund Burke
'A gentleman is one who never hurts anyone's feelings unintentionally'.. Oscar Wilde
'A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool'.. William Shakespeare
'Everyone has his day and some days last longer than others.'.. Winston Churchill
'Beaumaris is second to none'.. George Borrow
'All money is a matter of belief.'.. Adam Smith
'A poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language.'.. W H Auden