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Famous British Quotes
'The pain of parting is nothing to the joy of meeting again.'.. Charles Dickens
'The trouble with young writers is that they are all in their sixties.'.. Somerset Maugham
'What I am looking for is a blessing not in disguise.'.. Jerome K Jerome
'Some people are born to lift heavy weights, some are born to juggle golden balls'.. Max Beerbohm
'Pleasure and freedom from pain, are the only things desirable as ends.'.. John Stuart Mill
'Evil is unspectacular and always human, and shares our bed and eats at our own table.'.. W H Auden
'Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.'.. Bertrand Russell
'People say you should read your criticism because it will make you a better person but it doesn't. It just makes you a sad bitter old showbiz nightmare'.. Jo Brand
'Twin-sister of Religion, Selfishness.'.. Percy Bysshe Shelley
'I have no intention of uttering my last words on stage. A couple of depraved young girls and room service will do me fine'.. Peter O’Toole
'Put three Englishmen on a desert island and within an hour they will have invented a class system'.. Alan Ayckbourn
'New opinions are always suspected, and usually opposed, without anyother reason but because they are not already common.'.. John Locke
'Marriage is one long conversation, chequered by disputes.'.. Robert Louis Stevenson
'Sometimes the most positive thing you can be in a boring society is absolutely negative'.. John Lydon (Johnny Rotten)
'In trouble to be troubled, Is to have your trouble doubled.'.. Daniel Defoe
'A lot of football success is in the mind. You must believe you are the best and then make sure that you are.'.. Bill Shankly
'WH Auden didnt love God, he just fancied him'.. Stephen Spender
'God hangs the greatest weights upon the smallest wires.'.. Sir Francis Bacon
'Beware of the man who does not return your blow: he neither forgives you nor allows you to forgive yourself'.. George Bernard Shaw
'No man is an island, entire of itself'.. John Donne
'For all right judgment of any man or things it is useful, nay, essential, to see his good qualities before pronouncing on his bad.'.. Thomas Carlyle
'I became one of the Stately Homos of England'.. Quentin Crisp
'The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter.'.. Winston Churchill
'Sure I am of this, that you have only to endure to conquer.'.. Winston Churchill
'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
'Humour is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.'.. Virginia Woolf
'So much of left-wing thought is a kind of playing with fire by people who don't even know that fire is hot'.. George Orwell
'An agent is a person who is sore because an actor gets 90% of what they make.'.. Elton John
'Marriage is like paying an endless visit in your worst clothes.'.. J B Priestley
'Chastity - the most unnatural of all the sexual perversions.'.. Aldous Huxley