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Famous British Quotes
'Pity those who nature abuses; never those who abuse nature.'.. Richard Sheridan
'Animals are my friends... and I don't eat my friends.'.. George Bernard Shaw
'Every harlot was a virgin once.'.. William Blake
'You know, somebody actually complimented me on my driving today. They left a little note on the windscreen, it said 'Parking Fine.''.. Tommy Cooper
'You and I come by road or rail, but economists travel on infrastructure'.. Margaret Thatcher
'It's not wise to violate rules until you know how to observe them.'.. T S Eliot
'Everything I've ever told you, including this, is a lie'.. Peter Cook
'Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past'.. George Orwell
'A team effort is a lot of people doing what I say'.. Michael Winner
'Authority has every reason to fear the skeptic, for authority can rarely survive in the face of doubt'.. Vita Sackville-West
'Better to reign in hell than serve in heaven'.. John Milton
'Difficulties mastered are opportunities won.'.. Winston Churchill
'The aura given out by a person or object is as much a part of them as their flesh.'.. Lucien Freud
'Enlightened people seldom or never possess a sense of responsibility'.. George Orwell
'Everytime a child says 'I don't believe in fairies' there is a a little fairy somewhere that falls down dead.'.. J M Barrie
'One person with a belief is equal to ninety-nine who have only interests'.. John Stuart Mill
'When you choose your friends, don't be short-changed by choosing personality over character.'.. Somerset Maugham
'Militant feminists, I take my hat off to them. They don't like that'.. Milton Jones
'The hardest part of sailing round the world? Stepping on dry land'.. Ellen MacArthur
'Superstition is the religion of feeble minds.'.. Edmund Burke
'Almost all crime is due to the repressed desire for aesthetic expression.'.. Evelyn Waugh
'Ambition makes more trusty slaves than need.'.. Ben Jonson
'Promises and pie-crust are made to be broken.'.. Jonathan Swift
'In politics, strangely enough, the best way to play your cards is to lay them face upwards on the table'.. H G Wells
'A puritan is a person who pours righteous indignation into the wrong things'.. GK Chesterton
'What makes life dreary is the want of a motive.'.. George Eliot
'It is not so much that the world has got so much worse but that news coverage has got so much better'.. GK Chesterton
'I love criticism just so long as it's unqualified praise.'.. Noel Coward
'Life is what happens while you are busy making other plans.'.. John Lennon
'Who's ever going to write a film in which I get the girl? Me!'.. John Cleese