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Famous British Quotes
'The trouble with children is that they are non-returnable'.. Quentin Crisp
'Contrariwise, if it was so, it might be; and if it were so, it would be; but as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic.'.. Lewis Carroll
'I should like to say that good batsman are born, not made; but my long experience comes up before me, and tells me that it is not so.'.. W G Grace
'I am a lover of truth, a worshipper of freedom, a celebrant at the altar of language and purity and tolerance.'.. Stephen Fry
'Acting is half shame, half glory. Shame at exhibiting yourself, glory when you can forget yoursel'.. John Gielgud
'Asia is not going to be civilized after the methods of the West. There is too much Asia and she is too old.'.. Rudyard Kipling
'A young man who isn't a socialist hasn't got a heart; an old man who is a socialist hasn't got a head.'.. David Lloyd George
'Life is a progress from want to want, not from enjoyment to enjoyment.'.. Samuel Johnson
''May my last breath be drawn from a pipe and exhaled in a pun''.. Charles Lamb
'Never in the way, and never out of the way.'.. Charles II
'Animals are my friends... and I don't eat my friends.'.. George Bernard Shaw
'A lover without indiscretion is no lover at all.'.. Thomas Hardy
'To destroy is still the strongest instinct in nature.'.. Max Beerbohm
'Media is just a word that has come to mean bad journalism.'.. Graham Greene
'It is justice, not charity, that is wanting in the world.'.. Mary Shelley
'The perfect love affair is one which is conducted entirely by post.'.. George Bernard Shaw
'A difference of taste in jokes is a great strain on the affections.'.. George Eliot
'When you read and understand a poem, comprehending its rich and formal meanings, then you master chaos a little.'.. Stephen Spender
'One of the things being in politics has taught me is that men are not a reasoned or reasonable sex'.. Margaret Thatcher
'Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.'.. Winston Churchill
'The stars, that nature hung in heaven, and filled their lamps with everlasting oil, give due light to the misled and lonely traveller'.. John Milton
'I have nothing to declare except my genuis.'.. Oscar Wilde
'If I wasnt an actor I would probably be a psychopath'.. Terence Stamp
'Europe was created by history. America was created by philosophy'.. Margaret Thatcher
'Give him enough rope and he will hang himself.'.. Charlotte Bronte
'I think people should be free to engage in any sexual practices they choose; they should draw the line at goats though.'.. Elton John
'Gossip is what no one claims to like, but everybody enjoys.'.. Joseph Conrad
'It has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all the others that have been tried'.. Winston Churchill
'America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between'.. Oscar Wilde
'My boyfriend had a sex manual but he was dyslexic. I was lying there and he was looking for my vinegar'.. Victoria Wood