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Famous British Quotes
'This is the first age that's ever paid much attention to the future, which is a little ironic since we may not have one'.. Arthur C Clarke
'Let not England forget her precedence of teaching nations how to live'.. John Milton
'The length of a film should be directly determined by the endurance of the human bladder'.. Alfred Hitchcock
'Every war when it comes, or before it comes, is represented not as a war but as an act of self-defense against a homicidal maniac'.. George Orwell
'Rigid, the skeleton of habit alone upholds the human frame.'.. Virginia Woolf
'Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons'.. Bertrand Russell
'Presteigne - Neither in England nor Wales, simply in Radnorshire'.. George Borrow
'A man that hoards up riches and enjoys them not, is like an ass that carries gold and eats thistles'.. Richard Burton
'The news is always bad, even when it sounds good'.. Aldous Huxley
'We are all here on earth to help others; what on earth the others are here for I don't know.'.. W H Auden
'I haven't had that many women - only as many as I could lay my hands on'.. Dudley Moore
'People seldom improve when they have no other model but themselves to copy'.. Oliver Goldsmith
'Disease generally begins that equality which death completes.'.. Samuel Johnson
'I wouldnt say I was the best manager in the business but I was in the top 1'.. Brian Clough
'Writing is an antidote for loneliness.'.. Steven Berkoff
'The human species, according to the best theory I can form of it, is composed of two distinct races, the men who borrow and the men who lend.'.. Charles Lamb
'There is much to be said for failure. It is much more interesting than success.'.. Max Beerbohm
'Artists aren't really people. And I'm actually 40 per cent papier mache'.. Morrissey
'One should always be in love. That is the reason one should never marry.'.. Oscar Wilde
'There's no use doing a kindness if you do it a day too late.'.. Charles Kingsley
'Bournemouth is one of the few English towns that one can safely call 'her''.. John Betjeman
'Vices are sometimes only virtues carried to excess!'.. Charles Dickens
'Laugharne - timeless, beautiful, barmy town'.. Dylan Thomas
'The news is always bad, even when it sounds good'.. Aldous Huxley
'Every noble work is at first impossible.'.. Thomas Carlyle
'Love is 2 minutes and 52 seconds of squelching noises'.. John Lydon (Johnny Rotten)
'Reverence is fatal to literature.'.. E M Forster
'Life isn't black and white. It's a million gray areas, don't you find?'.. Ridley Scott
'Great men are seldom over-scrupulous in the arrangement of their attire.'.. Charles Dickens
'Better belly burst than good liquor be lost.'.. Jonathan Swift