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Famous British Quotes
'Now is the age of anxiety.'.. W H Auden
'Have nothing in your house that you do not know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful.'.. William Morris
'All autobiography is self-indulgent.'.. Daphne du Maurier
'I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat.'.. Winston Churchill
'Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons'.. Bertrand Russell
'Life is a progress from want to want, not from enjoyment to enjoyment.'.. Samuel Johnson
'Never keep up with the Jones's. Drag them down to your level instead'.. Quentin Crisp
'Men of power have no time to read; yet the men who do not read are unfit for power'.. Michael Foot
'It's no use crying over spilt summits.'.. Harold Macmillan
'The only reason I made a commercial for American Express was to pay for my American Express bill'.. Peter Ustinov
'Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children.'.. George Bernard Shaw
''May my last breath be drawn from a pipe and exhaled in a pun''.. Charles Lamb
'Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead'.. Oscar Wilde
'I shouldn't be saying this - high treason, really - but I sometimes wonder if Americans aren't fooled by our accent into detecting brilliance that may not really be there'.. Stephen Fry
'Power without principle is barren, but principle without power is futile'.. Tony Blair
'Give the enemy not only a road for flight, but also a means of defending it.'.. Thomas Hardy
'People say you should read your criticism because it will make you a better person but it doesn't. It just makes you a sad bitter old showbiz nightmare'.. Jo Brand
'Pleasure and action make the hours seem short.'.. William Shakespeare
'There's nothing glorious in dying. Anyone can do it'.. John Lydon (Johnny Rotten)
'Nothing is so fatal to religion as indifference.'.. Edmund Burke
'Death is just life's next big adventure.'.. J K Rowling
'Human blunders usually do more to shape history than human wickedness.'.. A J P Taylor
'All heiresses are beautiful.'.. John Dryden
'Every blessed one of you feels better for that burst of laughter.'.. Ivor Novello
'We always have been, we are, and I hope that we always will be detested in France'.. Duke of Wellington
'Britain's most useful role is somewhere between bee and dinosaur.'.. Harold Macmillan
'Now this is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning'.. Winston Churchill
'It is not real work unless you would rather be doing something else.'.. J M Barrie
'I'm a holy man minus the holiness.'.. E M Forster
'No battle is worth fighting except the last one.'.. Enoch Powell