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Famous British Quotes
'A yawn is a silent shout'.. GK Chesterton
'Although prepared for martyrdom, I preferred that it be postponed.'.. Winston Churchill
'We started off trying to set up a small anarchist community, but people wouldn't obey the rules.'.. Alan Bennett
'I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires, rather than in attempting to satisfy them.'.. John Stuart Mill
'Old Professors never die, they just lose their faculties.'.. Stephen Fry
'Men marry because they are tired; women, because they are curious; both are disappointed'.. Oscar Wilde
'It's discouraging to think how many people are shocked by honesty and how few by deceit.'.. Noel Coward
'What I am looking for is a blessing not in disguise.'.. Jerome K Jerome
'It is curious that every creed promises a paradise on death which is unthinkable for anyone of taste'.. Evelyn Waugh
'Proof that God has an odd sense of humour - after inventing Haute Cuisine he gave it to the French'.. A A Gill
'But better die than live mechanically a life that is a repetition of repetitions.'.. D H Lawrence
'Every war when it comes, or before it comes, is represented not as a war but as an act of self-defense against a homicidal maniac'.. George Orwell
'What is easy is seldom excellent.'.. Samuel Johnson
'Swansea - Ugh, Lovely town'.. Dylan Thomas
'Originality is a thing we constantly clamour for, and constantly quarrel with.'.. Thomas Carlyle
'People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf'.. George Orwell
'I'm not afraid of dying I just don't want to be there when it happens.'.. Spike Milligan
'Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.'.. Bertrand Russell
'History develops, art stands still.'.. E M Forster
'The path of least resistance is the path of the loser.'.. H G Wells
'Fertilizer does no good in a heap, but a little spread around works miracles all over.'.. Richard Sheridan
'We first make our habits, and then our habits make us.'.. John Dryden
'I see music as one language. If one musical form eats its own tail, it dies. So it needs to be a mongrel, it needs to be hybridised.'.. Sting
'He who laughs most, learns best.'.. John Cleese
'Few have been taught to any purpose who have not been their own teachers.'.. Joshua Reynolds
'An ounce of mother is worth a pound of clergy.'.. Rudyard Kipling
'Pleasure is none, if not diversified.'.. John Donne
'In trouble to be troubled, Is to have your trouble doubled.'.. Daniel Defoe
'A mere copier of nature can never produce anything great.'.. Joshua Reynolds
'God made them as stubble to our swords.'.. Oliver Cromwell