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Famous British Quotes
'With two small children, I haven't had a wash since 2001 so the chance to go shopping is way down the list. It is something I do intend to get'.. Jo Brand
'I am playing all the right notes, but not necessarily in the right order.'.. Eric Morecambe
'There's no use doing a kindness if you do it a day too late.'.. Charles Kingsley
'I'd the upbringing a nun would envy. Until I was fifteen I was more familiar with Africa than my own body'.. Joe Orton
'A clear and innocent conscience fears nothing.'.. Elizabeth I
'My definition of an intellectual is someone who can listen to the William Tell Overture without thinking of the Lone Ranger.'.. Billy Connolly
'Originality is a thing we constantly clamour for, and constantly quarrel with.'.. Thomas Carlyle
'I never deliberately set out to shock, but when people don't walk out of my plays I think there is something wrong.'.. John Osborne
'From quiet homes and first beginning, out to the undiscovered ends, there's nothing worth the wear of winning, but laughter and the love of friends'.. Hilaire Belloc
'No brilliance is needed in the law. Nothing but common sense, and relatively clean finger nails.'.. Sir John Mortimer
'All great truths begin as blasphemies.'.. George Bernard Shaw
'Heresies are experiments in man's unsatisfied search for truth.'.. H G Wells
'Charm, in most men and nearly all women, is a decoration.'.. E M Forster
'An agent is a person who is sore because an actor gets 90% of what they make.'.. Elton John
'Five minutes on even the nicest mountain is awfully long'.. W H Auden
'In me the tiger sniffs the rose.'.. Siegfried Sassoon
'He who would search for pearls must dive below.'.. John Dryden
'In English villages you turn over a stone and never know what might creep out'.. Agatha Christie
'The most happy marriage I can picture or imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman'.. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
'Understand that sexuality is as wide as the sea. Understand that your morality is not law'.. Derek Jarman
'Love is staying up all night with a sick child - or a healthy adult.'.. David Frost
'The kind of people who always go on about whether a thing is in good taste invariably have very bad taste'.. Joe Orton
'Man is an animal that makes bargains: no other animal does this - no dog exchanges bones with another.'.. Adam Smith
'A good book is the precious lifeblood of a master spirit.'.. John Milton
'I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires, rather than in attempting to satisfy them.'.. John Stuart Mill
'The media. It sounds like a convention of spiritualists.'.. Sir Tom Stoppard
'I think to be oversensitive about cliches is like being oversensitive about table manners.'.. Evelyn Waugh
'I dont understand the French. These are people with a town called Brest and none of them think its funny'.. Al Murray
'My unhealthy affection for my second daughter has waned. Now I despise all my seven children equally.'.. Evelyn Waugh
'Dorchester - A very agreeable town to live in'.. Daniel Defoe