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Famous British Quotes
'Life is a tragedy when seen in close-up, but a comedy in long-shot.'.. Charlie Chaplin
'Love-making is an art which must be studied.'.. Ivor Novello
'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
'One half of the world cannot understand the other halfs pleasures'.. Jane Austen
'Charity begins at home, and justice begins next door.'.. Charles Dickens
'I am not young enough to know everything.'.. Oscar Wilde
'Comedy is simply a funny way of being serious.'.. Peter Ustinov
'A kitten is in the animal world what a rosebud is in the garden.'.. Robert Southey
'Love is love's reward.'.. John Dryden
'It took me years to understand that words are often as important as experience, because words make experience last'.. William Morris
'Three minutes thought would suffice to sort this out but thought is irksome and three minutes is a long time'.. A E Housman
'I do not live in the world of sobriety.'.. Oliver Reed
'Men think about women. Women think about what men think about them.'.. Peter Ustinov
'Better to go than sit around being a terrible old bore.'.. Auberon Waugh
'Men of my age live in a state of continual desperation.'.. Vita Sackville-West
'Drama is life with the dull bits cut out.'.. Alfred Hitchcock
'There are hardly two things more peculiarly English than Welsh rarebit and Irish stew'.. GK Chesterton
'Every man's memory is his private literature.'.. Aldous Huxley
'All autobiography is self-indulgent.'.. Daphne du Maurier
'Memorial services are the cocktail parties of the geriatric set.'.. Harold Macmillan
'A man without a goal is like a ship without a rudder.'.. Thomas Carlyle
'There but for the grace of God goes God'.. Winston Churchill
'The man who can dominate a London dinner-table can dominate the world'.. Oscar Wilde
'Familiar acts are beautiful through love.'.. Percy Bysshe Shelley
'It is very good advice to believe only what an artist does, rather than what he says about his work.'.. David Hockney
'Serious sport is war minus the shooting.'.. George Orwell
'One should always be in love. That is the reason one should never marry.'.. Oscar Wilde
'Nothing can cure the soul but the senses, just as nothing can cure the senses but the soul.'.. Oscar Wilde
'When a true genius appears, you can know him by this sign: that all the dunces are in a confederacy against him.'.. Jonathan Swift
'I see myself as a roving mosquito, choosing it's target.'.. Kenneth Williams