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Famous British Quotes
'We know what we are, but know not what we may be.'.. William Shakespeare
'The war between the sexes is the only one in which both sides regularly sleep with the enemy'.. Quentin Crisp
'About a month before he died, my grandfather, we covered his back full of lard – after that he went downhill very quickly'.. Milton Jones
'Sometimes the most positive thing you can be in a boring society is absolutely negative'.. John Lydon (Johnny Rotten)
'To see a world in a grain of sand and heaven in a wild flower Hold infinity in the palms of your hand and eternity in an hour'.. William Blake
'Nothing that is morally wrong can be politically right.'.. W E Gladstone
'Books shouldn't be daunting,they should be funny,exciting & wonderful'.. Roald Dahl
'We are all here on earth to help others; what on earth the others are here for I don't know.'.. W H Auden
'The avoidance of taxes is the only intellectual pursuit that still carries any reward'.. John Maynard Keynes
'Oh, the tiger will love you. There is no sincerer love than the love of food.'.. George Bernard Shaw
'Vices are sometimes only virtues carried to excess!'.. Charles Dickens
'Men of power have no time to read; yet the men who do not read are unfit for power'.. Michael Foot
'I sometimes feel that more lousy dishes are presented under the banner of pate than any other.'.. Sir Kingsley Amis
'My definition of an intellectual is someone who can listen to the William Tell Overture without thinking of the Lone Ranger.'.. Billy Connolly
'I am the only man who can say he has been in Take That and at least 2 members of the Spice Girls'.. Robbie Williams
'For truth is always strange; stranger than fiction.'.. Lord Byron
'She said, 'I'm your biggest fan,' and I said, 'Who are you?' She said, 'Paris Hilton''.. Ricky Gervais
'Art has to move you and design does not, unless it's a good design for a bus.'.. David Hockney
'A week is a long time in politics.'.. Harold Wilson
'That we must all die, we always knew; I wish I had remembered it sooner.'.. Samuel Johnson
'I do not believe that friends are necessarily the people you like best, they are merely the people who got there first'.. Peter Ustinov
'Unless we remember we cannot understand.'.. E M Forster
'Great bodies of people are never responsible for what they do.'.. Virginia Woolf
'When people tell you how young you look, they are telling you how old you are.'.. Cary Grant
'I look upon every day to be lost, in which I do not make a new acquaintance'.. Samuel Johnson
'The profession of a prostitute is the only career in which the maximum income is paid to the newest apprentice'.. William Booth
'Contraceptives should be used on every conceivable occasion.'.. Spike Milligan
'Truth emerges more readily from error than from confusion.'.. Sir Francis Bacon
'Life is like a very short visit to a toyshop between birth and death.'.. Desmond Morris
'As people are walking all the time, in the same spot, a path appears.'.. John Locke