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Famous British Quotes
'In wartime, truth is so precious that she should always be attended by a bodyguard of lies.'.. Winston Churchill
'Better never than late.'.. George Bernard Shaw
'Only in Britain could it be thought a defect to be too clever by half. The probability is that too many people are too stupid by three-quarters.'.. John Major
'Don't talk to me about atrocities in war; all war is an atrocity.'.. Lord Kitchener
'Music is the best means we have of digesting time.'.. W H Auden
'In me the tiger sniffs the rose.'.. Siegfried Sassoon
'Experience is the child of thought, and thought is the child of action.'.. Benjamin Disraeli
'If I had been around when Rubens was painting, I would have been revered as a fabulous model. Kate Moss? Well, she would have been the paintbrush.'.. Dawn French
'Biography lends to death a new terror'.. Oscar Wilde
'My only regret in life is that I did not drink more champagne'.. John Maynard Keynes
'The world is a stage, but the play is badly cast.'.. Oscar Wilde
'Taste is the only morality. Tell me what you like and I'll tell you what you are'.. John Ruskin
'When you've seen a nude infant doing a backward somersault you know why clothing exists'.. Stephen Fry
'Adventure is not outside man; it is within.'.. George Eliot
'Nature, to be commanded, must be obeyed.'.. Sir Francis Bacon
'One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making new discoveries'.. A A Milne
'Good and bad men are less than they seem.'.. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
'You never know what is enough unless you know what is more than enough.'.. William Blake
'Islington is about as far as you can get from London without needing yellow-fever jabs'.. A A Gill
'I was court-martialled in my absence, and sentenced to death in my absence, so I said they could shoot me in my absence.'.. Thomas Hardy
'If there were no bad people, there would be no good lawyers.'.. Charles Dickens
'As far as I am concerned the paint is the person. I want it to work for me just as flesh does.'.. Lucien Freud
'You know, somebody actually complimented me on my driving today. They left a little note on the windscreen, it said 'Parking Fine.''.. Tommy Cooper
'Drama is life with the dull bits cut out.'.. Alfred Hitchcock
'The true secret of happiness lies in taking a genuine interest in all the details of daily life.'.. William Morris
'If someone's dumb enough to offer me a million dollars to make a picture, I'm certainly not dumb enough to turn it down.'.. Elizabeth Taylor
'No man is regular in his attendance at the House of Commons until he is married.'.. Benjamin Disraeli
'Every harlot was a virgin once.'.. William Blake
'It is a farce to call any being virtuous whose virtues do not result from the exercise of it's own reason'.. Mary Shelley
'A man without a goal is like a ship without a rudder.'.. Thomas Carlyle