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Famous British Quotes
'Those who don't believe in magic will never find it'.. Roald Dahl
'Whenever people talk to me about the weather I always feel certain that they mean something else'.. Oscar Wilde
'Breed is stronger than pasture.'.. George Eliot
'All I can think of the Middle Ages is that everything must have chafed terribly'.. A A Gill
'To his dog, every man is Napoleon; hence the constant popularity of dogs.'.. Aldous Huxley
'Marriage is a very good thing, but I think it's a mistake to make a habit out of it.'.. Somerset Maugham
'Andrew Marr looks like Martin Clunes with a little of the air let out of him'.. Jo Brand
'We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another'.. Jonathan Swift
'The palace is not safe when the cottage is not happy.'.. Benjamin Disraeli
'I sometimes think that the price of liberty is not so much eternal vigilance as eternal dirt'.. George Orwell
'I sometimes think that being widowed is God's way of telling you to come off the Pill.'.. Victoria Wood
'Time you enjoy wasting, was not wasted.'.. John Lennon
'It's very hard to be a gentleman and a writer.'.. Somerset Maugham
'Language ought to be the joint creation of poets and manual workers'.. George Orwell
'Actors search for rejection. If they don't get it they reject themselves.'.. Charlie Chaplin
'There are no such things as Flowers there are only gladdened Leaves.'.. John Ruskin
'Last night I dreamt I ate a ten pound marshmallow. When I woke up the pillow was gone.'.. Tommy Cooper
'The world is a republic of mediocrities, and always was.'.. Thomas Carlyle
'The delicate balance between modesty and conceit is popularity.'.. Max Beerbohm
'The greatest pleasure I know is to do a good action by stealth and have it found out by accident.'.. Charles Lamb
'It is only the dull who like practical jokes'.. Oscar Wilde
'Squash - that's not exercise, it's flagellation.'.. Noel Coward
'The worst of revolutions is a restoration'.. Charles James Fox
'A prudent question is one-half of wisdom.'.. Sir Francis Bacon
'Thousands have lived without love, not one without water.'.. W H Auden
'Man's silence is wonderful to listen to.'.. Thomas Hardy
'Most people do not pray; they only beg.'.. George Bernard Shaw
'Paradise Lost is a book that, once put down, is very hard to pick up again.'.. Samuel Johnson
'I did not fully understand the dread term 'terminal illness' until I saw Heathrow for myself.'.. Dennis Potter
'Greatness and goodness are not means, but ends.'.. Samuel Taylor Coleridge