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Famous British Quotes
'I can resist everything except temptation.'.. Oscar Wilde
'Motherhood: All love begins and ends there.'.. Robert Browning
'A family with the wrong members in control; that, perhaps, is as near as one can come to describing England in a phrase.'.. George Orwell
'A common mistake people make when trying to design something is underestimating the ingenuity of fools'.. Douglas Adams
'Saints should always be judged guilty until they are proved innocent'.. George Orwell
'I exist in a state of almost perpetual hysteria.'.. Sting
'Filth and old age, I'm sure you will agree, are powerful wardens upon chastity.'.. Geoffrey Chaucer
'Circumstances are beyond human control, but our conduct is in our own power.'.. Benjamin Disraeli
'The man who can dominate a London dinner-table can dominate the world'.. Oscar Wilde
'A yawn is a silent shout'.. GK Chesterton
'We are not just here to manage capitalism but to change society and to define its finer values'.. Tony Benn
'A diplomat these days in nothing, but a head waiter who is allowed to sit down occasionally.'.. Peter Ustinov
'Everyone who wants to do good to the human race always ends in universal bullying'.. Aldous Huxley
'God could not be everywhere, and therefore he made mothers.'.. Rudyard Kipling
'What is easy is seldom excellent.'.. Samuel Johnson
'I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them.'.. Ian Fleming
'Nothing can cure the soul but the senses, just as nothing can cure the senses but the soul.'.. Oscar Wilde
'Television has bought murder back in to the home - where it belongs'.. Alfred Hitchcock
'A lover without indiscretion is no lover at all.'.. Thomas Hardy
'Papa, potatoes, poultry, prunes and prism, are all very good words for the lips.'.. Charles Dickens
'Islington is about as far as you can get from London without needing yellow-fever jabs'.. A A Gill
'You know the worst thing about oral sex? The view.'.. Maureen Lipman
'It wasn't until late in life that I discovered how easy it is to say "I don't know."'.. Somerset Maugham
'Andrew Marr looks like Martin Clunes with a little of the air let out of him'.. Jo Brand
'Live as long as you may, the first twenty years are the longest half of your life.'.. Robert Southey
'I have always thought the actions of men the best interpreters of their thoughts.'.. John Locke
'A mother is a mother still, The holiest thing alive.'.. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
'Always be a little kinder than necessary.'.. J M Barrie
'It is curious that every creed promises a paradise on death which is unthinkable for anyone of taste'.. Evelyn Waugh
'Anything worth doing is worth overdoing.'.. Mick Jagger