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Famous British Quotes
'Summer has set in with its usual severity'.. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
'The greatest problem about old age is the fear that it may go on too long.'.. A J P Taylor
'I used to desire many, many things, but now I have just one desire, and that's to get rid of all my other desires'.. John Cleese
'One sometimes finds what one is not looking for.'.. Alexander Fleming
'Wouldn't it be better to have a watertight law designed to catch the guilty, rather than a press release law designed to catch the headlines?'.. William Hague
'A family with the wrong members in control; that, perhaps, is as near as one can come to describing England in a phrase.'.. George Orwell
'No violent extreme endures.'.. Thomas Carlyle
'I felt my mother about the place. I don't think she haunts me, but I wouldn't put it past her.'.. Julie Walters
'We cherish our friends not for their ability to amuse us, but for ours to amuse them.'.. Evelyn Waugh
'When you've seen a nude infant doing a backward somersault you know why clothing exists'.. Stephen Fry
'Life isn't black and white. It's a million gray areas, don't you find?'.. Ridley Scott
'The delicate balance between modesty and conceit is popularity.'.. Max Beerbohm
'Have you ever noticed? Anybody going slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than you is a maniac'.. Ronnie Corbett
'Instead of this absurd division into sexes they ought to class people as static and dynamic.'.. Evelyn Waugh
'One should always play fairly when one has the winning cards.'.. Oscar Wilde
'Probably the battle of Waterloo was won on the playing-fields of Eton, but the opening battles of all subsequent wars have been lost there'.. George Orwell
'I never had lunch in Brighton without wanting to take a woman to bed in the afternoon'.. John Osborne
'When hospitality becomes an art it loses its very soul.'.. Max Beerbohm
'How paramount the future is to the present when one is surrounded by children.'.. Charles Darwin
'Nothing is pleasant that is not spiced with variety.'.. Sir Francis Bacon
'Live as long as you may, the first twenty years are the longest half of your life.'.. Robert Southey
'Older women are best, because they always think they may be doing it for the last time.'.. Ian Fleming
'Coincidences are spiritual puns.'.. GK Chesterton
'A man may devote himself to death and destruction to save a nation; but no nation will devote itself to death and destruction to save mankind.'.. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
'Wives are like gilt-edged stocks. The more you have, the greater your dividends.'.. Rex Harrison
'A faith is something you die for, a doctrine is something you kill for. There is all the difference in the world'.. Tony Benn
'The years between fifty and seventy are the hardest. You are always being asked to do things, and yet you are not decrepit enough to turn them down.'.. George Eliot
'Loss and possession, death and life are one, There falls no shadow where there shines no sun.'.. Hilaire Belloc
'He who praises everybody, praises nobody.'.. Samuel Johnson
'Twin-sister of Religion, Selfishness.'.. Percy Bysshe Shelley