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Famous British Quotes
'Advertising is legalized lying.'.. H G Wells
'Wine is bottled poetry.'.. Robert Louis Stevenson
'Thank goodness I was never sent to school; it would have rubbed off some of the originality.'.. Beatrix Potter
'Royalty is the gold teeth in a mouth full of decay'.. John Osborne
''Not many sounds in life exceed in interest an unexpected knock at the door''.. Charles Lamb
'Artists aren't really people. And I'm actually 40 per cent papier mache'.. Morrissey
'A solitary laugh is often a laugh of superiority.'.. Graham Greene
'Oh, 'tis love, 'tis love that makes the world go round.'.. Lewis Carroll
'A week is a long time in politics.'.. Harold Wilson
'There are a terrible lot of lies going about the world, and the worst of it is that half of them are true.'.. Winston Churchill
'Great things are done when men and mountains meet.'.. William Blake
'We are stripped bare by the curse of plenty.'.. Winston Churchill
'My face looks like a wedding-cake left out in the rain.'.. W H Auden
'Sometimes the first duty of intelligent men is the restatement of the obvious'.. George Orwell
'We started off trying to set up a small anarchist community, but people wouldn't obey the rules.'.. Alan Bennett
'If the misery of the poor be caused not by the laws of nature, but by our institutions, great is our sin.'.. Charles Darwin
'Keep your faith in God, but keep your powder dry.'.. Oliver Cromwell
'Until you understand a writer's ignorance, presume yourself ignorant of his understanding'.. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
'People see me in the suit and they know I'm not fooling anyone, they know I'm rock and roll through and through'.. Ricky Gervais
'He who seeks rest finds boredom. He who seeks work finds rest.'.. Dylan Thomas
'All mankind... being all equal and independent, no one ought to harm another in his life, health, liberty or possessions.'.. John Locke
'I have a face like the behind of an elephant.'.. Charles Laughton
'People say you should read your criticism because it will make you a better person but it doesn't. It just makes you a sad bitter old showbiz nightmare'.. Jo Brand
'Great bodies of people are never responsible for what they do.'.. Virginia Woolf
'Don't talk to me about a man's being able to talk sense; everyone can talk sense. Can he talk nonsense?'.. William Pitt (The Younger)
'That great Cathedral space which was childhood.'.. Virginia Woolf
'We forge the chains we wear in life.'.. Charles Dickens
'A fashion is nothing but an induced epidemic.'.. George Bernard Shaw
'Subdue your appetites, my dears, and you've conquered human nature.'.. Charles Dickens
'Heresy is another word for freedom of thought.'.. Graham Greene