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Famous British Quotes
'Death is just life's next big adventure.'.. J K Rowling
'An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered'.. GK Chesterton
'I venture to say no war can be long carried on against the will of the people.'.. Edmund Burke
'A platitude is simply a truth repeated till people get tired of hearing it.'.. Stanley Baldwin
'So I was getting into my car, and this bloke says to me "Can you give me a lift?" I said "Sure, you look great, the world's your oyster, go for it."'.. Tommy Cooper
'It is impossible to enjoy idling thoroughly unless one has plenty of work to do'.. Jerome K Jerome
'The best research for playing a drunk is being a British actor for 20 years'.. Michael Caine
'Those who don't believe in magic will never find it'.. Roald Dahl
'You shall judge a man by his foes as well as by his friends.'.. Joseph Conrad
'Love-making is an art which must be studied.'.. Ivor Novello
'Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past'.. George Orwell
'For several days after my first book was published, I carried it about in my pocket and took surreptitious peeps at it to make sure the ink had not faded.'.. J M Barrie
'Patience, that blending of moral courage with physical timidity.'.. Thomas Hardy
'One who does not know when to die, does not know how to live.'.. John Ruskin
'The printing press is the greatest weapon in the armoury of the modern commander'.. T E Lawrence
'A dirty joke is a sort of mental rebellion.'.. George Orwell
'We are just an advanced breed of monkeys on a minor planet of a very average star. But we can understand the Universe. That makes us something very special.'.. Stephen Hawking
'I wonder what fool it was that first invented kissing.'.. Jonathan Swift
'If you don't believe in God, all you have to believe in is decency.'.. Harold Macmillan
'The cruelest lies are often told in silence.'.. Robert Louis Stevenson
'Man hands on misery to man. It deepens like a coastal shelf. Get out as early as you can, and don't have any kids yourself'.. Philip Larkin
'You can preach a better sermon with your life than with your lips.'.. Oliver Goldsmith
'Love is only a dirty trick played on us to achieve continuation of the species.'.. Somerset Maugham
'Happiness is not a possession to be prized, it is a quality of thought, a state of mind.'.. Daphne du Maurier
'Women are for bastmen, beer is for bowlers. God help the all-rounders!'.. Fred Trueman
'I am not, I repeat, NOT a lesbian - even though I'd like to be one when I grow up.'.. Dawn French
'We are all here on earth to help others; what on earth the others are here for I don't know.'.. W H Auden
'We are so fond on one another because our ailments are the same.'.. Jonathan Swift
'He was gifted with the sly, sharp instinct for self-preservation that passes for wisdom among the rich.'.. Evelyn Waugh
'Gossip is what no one claims to like, but everybody enjoys.'.. Joseph Conrad