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Famous British Quotes
'If you tell the truth, you have infinite power supporting you; but if not, you have infinite power against you'.. Charles George Gordon
'Put three Englishmen on a desert island and within an hour they will have invented a class system'.. Alan Ayckbourn
'On the outskirts of every agony sits some observant fellow who points.'.. Virginia Woolf
'Older women are best, because they always think they may be doing it for the last time.'.. Ian Fleming
'During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act'.. George Orwell
'Every man desires to live long, but no man wishes to be old.'.. Jonathan Swift
'You will find that the woman who is really kind to dogs is always one who has failed to inspire sympathy in men'.. Max Beerbohm
'It's difficult isn't it, when you're in a Mosque and everyone's praying and you really enjoy leapfrog'.. Milton Jones
'Writing is the supreme solace.'.. Somerset Maugham
'I feel sure that no girl would go to the altar if she knew all.'.. Queen Victoria
'Anxiety is the hand maiden of creativity.'.. T S Eliot
'A Royal Commission is a broody hen sitting on a china egg.'.. Michael Foot
'You cannot antagonize and influence at the same time.'.. John Knox
'Artists aren't really people. And I'm actually 40 per cent papier mache'.. Morrissey
'Life is obstinate and clings closest where it is most hated.'.. Mary Shelley
'I wonder what fool it was that first invented kissing.'.. Jonathan Swift
'If God did not intend for us to eat animals, then why did he make them out of meat?'.. John Cleese
'An orgy looks particularly alluring seen through the mists of righteous indignation'.. Malcolm Muggeridge
'I am certainly an ought and not a must.'.. E M Forster
'Be just before you are generous.'.. Richard Sheridan
'If I played Hamlet, they`d call it a horror film'.. Peter Cushing
'I thought how unpleasant it is to be locked out; and I thought how it is worse, perhaps, to be locked in.'.. Virginia Woolf
'Power is not a means, it is an end'.. George Orwell
'Silence is the most perfect expression of scorn.'.. George Bernard Shaw
'You can always count on Americans to do the right thing - after they've tried everything else.'.. Winston Churchill
'In love as in sport, the amateur status must be strictly maintained.'.. Robert Graves
'Strange to see how a good dinner and feasting reconciles everybody.'.. Samuel Pepys
'A politician is a person with whose politics you don't agree; if you agree with him he's a statesman.'.. David Lloyd George
'One cannot really be a Catholic and grown up.'.. George Orwell
'Don't talk to me about a man's being able to talk sense; everyone can talk sense. Can he talk nonsense?'.. William Pitt (The Younger)