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Famous British Quotes
'Somebody said to me, 'But the Beatles were anti-materialistic.' That's a huge myth. John and I literally used to sit down and say, 'Now, let's write a swimming pool.''.. Paul McCartney
'I like Beethoven, especially the poems.'.. Ringo Starr
'I think childhood is to everyone a lost land.'.. Dennis Potter
'It's not so much about what you ask as what you don't ask.'.. Michael Parkinson
'Marriage: A friendship recognized by the police.'.. Robert Louis Stevenson
'My boat can sleep 6 people that know each other well or 1 prude'.. Peter Ustinov
'I like long walks, especially when they are taken by people who annoy me.'.. Noel Coward
'If you feel that life is one of Gods jokes there is still no reason not to make it a good oke'.. Kenneth Williams
'We cast a shadow on something wherever we stand.'.. E M Forster
'Always laugh when you can. It is cheap medicine.'.. Lord Byron
'For a creative writer possession of the "truth" is less important than emotional sincerity'.. George Orwell
'My face looks like a wedding-cake left out in the rain.'.. W H Auden
'Bad humor is an evasion of reality; good humor is an acceptance of it.'.. Malcolm Muggeridge
'So many objections may be made to everything, that nothing can overcome them but the necessity of doing something'.. Samuel Johnson
'Beware the fury of a patient man.'.. John Dryden
'Only mediocrity can be trusted to be always at its best.'.. Max Beerbohm
'The world is a stage, but the play is badly cast.'.. Oscar Wilde
'Art has to move you and design does not, unless it's a good design for a bus.'.. David Hockney
'Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together.'.. George Eliot
'To know one thing, you must know the opposite.'.. Henry Moore
'Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable'.. Sir Francis Bacon
'Give him enough rope and he will hang himself.'.. Charlotte Bronte
'Disease generally begins that equality which death completes.'.. Samuel Johnson
'A woman that does a mans work is just a lazy cow'.. Jo Brand
'We wander for distraction, but we travel for fulfillment.'.. Hilaire Belloc
'The habit of religion is oppressive, an easy way out of thought.'.. Peter Ustinov
'I had lunch with a chess champion the other day. I knew he was a chess champion because it took him 20 minutes to pass the salt.'.. Eric Sykes
'It is only the dull who like practical jokes'.. Oscar Wilde
'I venture to say no war can be long carried on against the will of the people.'.. Edmund Burke
'I've searched all the parks in all the cities and found no statues of committees'.. GK Chesterton