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Famous British Quotes
'It is fatal to be a man or woman pure and simple: one must be a manly woman, or a womanly man.'.. Virginia Woolf
'The creative habit is like a drug. The particular obsession changes, but the excitement, the thrill of your creation lasts'.. Henry Moore
'Incongruity is the mainspring of laughter.'.. Max Beerbohm
'The greatest good you can do for another is not just to share your riches but to reveal to him his own.'.. Benjamin Disraeli
'A horse is dangerous at both ends and uncomfortable in the middle.'.. Ian Fleming
'People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf'.. George Orwell
'I used to go missing a lot...Miss Canada, Miss United Kingdom, Miss World.'.. George Best
'Friendship is Love without his wings'.. Lord Byron
'Of all the objects of hatred, a woman once loved is the most hateful.'.. Max Beerbohm
'History will see advertising as one of the real evil things of our time. It is stimulating people constantly to want things, want this, want that.'.. Malcolm Muggeridge
'I don't know many singers who actually do like the sound of their own voice'.. Roger Daltrey
'If I decide to be indecisive, that's my decision.'.. Roger McGough
'Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard are sweeter.'.. John Keats
'To refuse awards is another way of accepting them with more noise than is normal'.. Peter Ustinov
'The higher the building the lower the morals.'.. Noel Coward
'I know not, sir, whether Bacon wrote the works of Shakespeare, but if he did not, it seems to me that he missed the opportunity of his life.'.. J M Barrie
'With two small children, I haven't had a wash since 2001 so the chance to go shopping is way down the list. It is something I do intend to get'.. Jo Brand
'Lawyers, I suppose, were children once.'.. Charles Lamb
'I read the newspapers avidly. It is my one form of continuous fiction.'.. Aneurin Bevan
'Alas! they had been friends in youth; but whispering tongues can poison truth.'.. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
'All sins tend to be addictive, and the terminal point of addiction is damnation.'.. W H Auden
'A man without a goal is like a ship without a rudder.'.. Thomas Carlyle
'They are most deceived that trusteth most in themselves.'.. Elizabeth I
'I left England when I was 4 when I discovered that I couldnt be king'.. Bob Hope
'There is no instinct like that of the heart.'.. Lord Byron
'I can take any amount of criticism as long as its unqualifed praise'.. Noel Coward
'Ambition may be defined as the willingness to receive any number of hits on the nose'.. Wilfred Owen
'The news is always bad, even when it sounds good'.. Aldous Huxley
'I think that by ignoring the show you're ignoring the audience who put you there'.. Simon Cowell
'Better to reign in hell than serve in heaven'.. John Milton