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Famous British Quotes
'There's only room for one bigmouth in my organisation, and that's me.'.. Alan Sugar
'After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.'.. Aldous Huxley
'If you feel depressed or let down my advice is to roast a chicken'.. Delia Smith
'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)
'Consequences are unpitying.'.. George Eliot
'Having a great intellect is no path to being happy.'.. Stephen Fry
'My boyfriend had a sex manual but he was dyslexic. I was lying there and he was looking for my vinegar'.. Victoria Wood
'For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbors and laugh at them in our turn?'.. Jane Austen
'Actors search for rejection. If they don't get it they reject themselves.'.. Charlie Chaplin
'It is a cliche that most cliches are true, but then like most cliches, that cliche is untrue'.. Stephen Fry
'God gave us memory so that we might have roses in December.'.. J M Barrie
'Anyone can tell the truth, but only very few of us can make epigrams.'.. Somerset Maugham
'Prudence is a rich, ugly, old maid courted by incapacity.'.. William Blake
'A happy family is but an earlier heaven.'.. George Bernard Shaw
'Doing is the great thing, for if people resolutely do what is right, they come in time to like doing it.'.. John Ruskin
'My favorite sexual fantasy is smearing my body in chocolate and being left alone in a room to eat it'.. Jo Brand
'It is easy to answer the ultimate questions - it saves you bothering with the immediate ones.'.. John Osborne
'Promises and pie-crust are made to be broken.'.. Jonathan Swift
'The martyr sacrifices themselves entirely in vain. Or rather not in vain; for they make the narrow narrower'.. Florence Nightingale
'If I cannot understand my friend's silence, I will never get to understand his words.'.. Enoch Powell
'Most sets of values would give rise to universes that, although they might be very beautiful, would contain no one able to wonder at that beauty.'.. Stephen Hawking
'On the whole, human beings want to be good, but not too good, and not quite all the time'.. George Orwell
'Our greatest glory consists not in never failing, but in rising every time we fall'.. Oliver Goldsmith
'There is no sin but ignorance.'.. Christopher Marlowe
'History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.'.. Winston Churchill
'I've always said there's a place for the press but they haven't dug it yet.'.. Tommy Docherty
'An unexciting truth may be eclipsed by a thrilling lie.'.. Aldous Huxley
'Sooner or later everyone sits down to a banquet of consequences.'.. Robert Louis Stevenson
'History, a distillation of rumour.'.. Thomas Carlyle
'An asylum for the sane would be empty in America.'.. George Bernard Shaw