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Famous British Quotes
'Media is just a word that has come to mean bad journalism.'.. Graham Greene
'Nature uses as little as possible of anything'.. Alan Bleasdale
'Conventionality is not morality.'.. Charlotte Bronte
'You write with ease to show your breeding, but easy writing's curst hard reading.'.. Richard Sheridan
'The four characteristics of humanism are curiosity, a free mind, belief in good taste, and belief in the human race.'.. E M Forster
'Friendship is certainly the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love'.. Jane Austen
'We always have been, we are, and I hope that we always will be detested in France'.. Duke of Wellington
'I am playing all the right notes, but not necessarily in the right order.'.. Eric Morecambe
'I look upon every day to be lost, in which I do not make a new acquaintance'.. Samuel Johnson
'Society needs to condemn a little more and understand a little less.'.. John Major
'Something unpleasant is coming when men are anxious to tell the truth'.. Benjamin Disraeli
'The mind that is wise mourns less for what age takes away; than what it leaves behind.'.. William Wordsworth
'A Royal Commission is a broody hen sitting on a china egg.'.. Michael Foot
'Death is just life's next big adventure.'.. J K Rowling
'My goal is simple. It is a complete understanding of the universe, why it is as it is and why it exists at all.'.. Stephen Hawking
'Fertilizer does no good in a heap, but a little spread around works miracles all over.'.. Richard Sheridan
'Chastity - the most unnatural of all the sexual perversions.'.. Aldous Huxley
'Love is staying up all night with a sick child - or a healthy adult.'.. David Frost
'The essence of being human is that one does not seek perfection'.. George Orwell
'Freedom is the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.'.. George Orwell
'Nonsense and beauty have close connections.'.. E M Forster
'Difficulties mastered are opportunities won.'.. Winston Churchill
'When I was a nurse my favourite assignment was the anorexia ward. I sometimes had 17 dinners'.. Jo Brand
'Liberty is not merely a privilege to be conferred; it is a habit to be acquired'.. David Lloyd George
'Nothing can be beautiful which is not true.'.. John Ruskin
'Originality is a thing we constantly clamour for, and constantly quarrel with.'.. Thomas Carlyle
'There is frequently more to be learned from the unexpected questions of a child than the discourses of men'.. John Locke
'There is no such thing as the pursuit of happiness, but there is the discovery of joy'.. Joyce Grenfell
'I have taken more out of alcohol than alcohol has taken out of me.'.. Winston Churchill
'Kinross House, the beautiful and regular piece of architecture in all of Scotland'.. Daniel Defoe