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Famous British Quotes
'A verbal art like poetry is reflective; it stops to think. Music is immediate, it goes on to become'.. W H Auden
'Our own heart, and not other men's opinions form our true honor.'.. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
'We're against beaurocracy and anything ending in a Y'.. John Lydon (Johnny Rotten)
'Like all great travellers, I have seen more than I remember, and remember more than I have seen.'.. Benjamin Disraeli
'Melancholy, indeed, should be diverted by every means but drinking.'.. Samuel Johnson
'I like not only to be loved, but to be told I am loved.'.. George Eliot
'Pain is no evil, unless it conquers us.'.. Charles Kingsley
'Colin is the sort of name you give your goldfish for a joke'.. Colin Firth
'I have terrible hearing trouble. I have unwittingly helped to invent and refine a type of music that makes its principal proponents deaf.'.. Pete Townshend
'America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between'.. Oscar Wilde
'Hope is a good breakfast, but it is a bad supper.'.. Sir Francis Bacon
'To be blind is not miserable; not to be able to bear blindness, that is miserable'.. John Milton
'I love everything that's old, - old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wine'.. Oliver Goldsmith
'When I repress my emotion my stomach keeps score.'.. Enoch Powell
'Dancing is a perpendicular expression of a horizontal desire.'.. George Bernard Shaw
'The one phrase imperative to know in any foreign language is My friend will pay'.. Alan Whicker
'From the middle of life onward, only he remains vitally alive who is ready to die with life'.. Samuel Johnson
'A bachelor's life is a fine breakfast, a flat lunch, and a miserable dinner.'.. Sir Francis Bacon
'Come forth into the light of things, let nature be your teacher.'.. William Wordsworth
'Be not a slave of words.'.. Thomas Carlyle
'My favorite sexual fantasy is smearing my body in chocolate and being left alone in a room to eat it'.. Jo Brand
'By indignities men come to dignities.'.. Sir Francis Bacon
'Diplomats were invented simply to waste time.'.. David Lloyd George
'Sooner or later everyone sits down to a banquet of consequences.'.. Robert Louis Stevenson
'Beauty is a short-lived tyranny.'.. George Bernard Shaw
'You cannot antagonize and influence at the same time.'.. John Knox
'An idea, like a ghost, must be spoken to a little before it will explain itself.'.. Charles Dickens
'Remember that you are an Englishman, and have consequently won first prize in the lottery of life.'.. Cecil Rhodes
'Impropriety is the soul of wit.'.. Somerset Maugham
'Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.'.. Oscar Wilde