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Famous British Quotes
'It is no wonder that people are so horrible when they start their life as children.'.. Sir Kingsley Amis
'If I wasnt an actor I would probably be a psychopath'.. Terence Stamp
'I'm an optimist, but an optimist who carries a raincoat.'.. Harold Wilson
'I want to live my life so that my nights are not full of regrets.'.. D H Lawrence
'An explanation of cause is not a justification by reason'.. C S Lewis
'I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires, rather than in attempting to satisfy them.'.. John Stuart Mill
'Somebody said to me, 'But the Beatles were anti-materialistic.' That's a huge myth. John and I literally used to sit down and say, 'Now, let's write a swimming pool.''.. Paul McCartney
'I am not a heavy drinker. I can sometimes go for hours without touching a drop.'.. Noel Coward
'Good company and good discourse are the very sinews of virtue.'.. Izaak Walton
'A sure cure for seasickness is to sit under a tree.'.. Spike Milligan
'Do not tell secrets to those whose faith and silence you have not already tested.'.. Elizabeth I
'Genius not only diagnoses the situation but supplies the answers.'.. Robert Graves
'The truth is really an ambition which is beyond us.'.. Peter Ustinov
'Bad humor is an evasion of reality; good humor is an acceptance of it.'.. Malcolm Muggeridge
'Actually american football is a lot like rugby but why do they keep on having all those committee meetings?'.. Winston Churchill
'Life’s never a postcard of life, is it? It never feels like how you’d want it to look'.. Russell Brand
'Corruption never has been compulsory.'.. Anthony Eden
'I am acquainted with no immaterial sensuality so delightful as good acting'.. Lord Byron
'The perfect love affair is one which is conducted entirely by post.'.. George Bernard Shaw
'It was such a lovely day I thought it was a pity to get up'.. Somerset Maugham
'Liberal: a power worshipper without power.'.. George Orwell
'One forgets words as one forgets names. One's vocabulary needs constant fertilizing or it will die.'.. Evelyn Waugh
'Science must have originated in the feeling that something was wrong.'.. Thomas Carlyle
'There are books of which the backs and covers are by far the best parts.'.. Charles Dickens
'Always be a little kinder than necessary.'.. J M Barrie
'There are strings in the human heart that had better not be vibrated.'.. Charles Dickens
'Diplomats were invented simply to waste time.'.. David Lloyd George
'Impropriety is the soul of wit.'.. Somerset Maugham
'I thought how unpleasant it is to be locked out; and I thought how it is worse, perhaps, to be locked in.'.. Virginia Woolf
'Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.'.. John Locke