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Famous British Quotes
'To refuse awards is another way of accepting them with more noise than is normal'.. Peter Ustinov
'I do not want a husband who honours me as a queen, if he does not love me as a woman.'.. Elizabeth I
'Nothing can cure the soul but the senses, just as nothing can cure the senses but the soul.'.. Oscar Wilde
'Those that vow the most are the least sincere.'.. Richard Sheridan
'The courage we desire and prize is not the courage to die decently, but to live manfully'.. Thomas Carlyle
'Both read the Bible day and night, but thou read black where I read white'.. William Blake
'A diplomat is a man who thinks twice before he says nothing.'.. Edward Heath
'An orgy looks particularly alluring seen through the mists of righteous indignation'.. Malcolm Muggeridge
'The habit of religion is oppressive, an easy way out of thought.'.. Peter Ustinov
'If my critics saw me walking over the Thames they would say it was because I couldn't swim'.. Margaret Thatcher
'He has sat on the fence so long that the iron has entered his soul.'.. David Lloyd George
'I can imagine no more comfortable frame of mind than a humorous resignation'.. Somerset Maugham
'Prudence is a rich, ugly, old maid courted by incapacity.'.. William Blake
'The British tourist is always happy abroad as long as the natives are waiters'.. Robert Morley
'Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers.'.. Alfred Lord Tennyson
'All political power is a trust'.. Charles James Fox
'Writing is an antidote for loneliness.'.. Steven Berkoff
'That's all drugs and alcohol do, they cut off your emotions in the end.'.. Ringo Starr
'No distance of place or lapse of time can lessen the friendship of those who are thoroughly persuaded of each other's worth'.. Robert Southey
'Give the enemy not only a road for flight, but also a means of defending it.'.. Thomas Hardy
'Take away love and our earth is a tomb.'.. Robert Browning
'What loneliness is more lonely than distrust?'.. George Eliot
'I never knew a man come to greatness or eminence who lay abed late in the morning.'.. Jonathan Swift
'The way to tell if a man is sexually excited is to check if he is breathing'.. Jo Brand
'Independence? That's middle class blasphemy. We are all dependent on one another, every soul of us on earth.'.. George Bernard Shaw
'You don't have to be the Dalai Lama to tell people that life's about change'.. John Cleese
'Ours is an excessively conscious age. We know so much, we feel so little.'.. D H Lawrence
'Football is not a matter of Life and Death - its far more important than that'.. Bill Shankly
'Nature uses as little as possible of anything'.. Alan Bleasdale
'I've always said there's a place for the press but they haven't dug it yet.'.. Tommy Docherty