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Famous British Quotes
'Life has a practice of living you, if you don't live it.'.. Philip Larkin
'Language ought to be the joint creation of poets and manual workers'.. George Orwell
'For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbors and laugh at them in our turn?'.. Jane Austen
'Integrity is so perishable in the summer months of success.'.. Vanessa Redgrave
'Whenever a separation is made between liberty and justice, neither, in my opinion, is safe.'.. Edmund Burke
'A lover without indiscretion is no lover at all.'.. Thomas Hardy
'Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another'.. GK Chesterton
'People who get through life dependent on other people's possessions are always the first to lecture you on how little possessions count.'.. Ben Elton
'A poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language.'.. W H Auden
'Serious sport is war minus the shooting.'.. George Orwell
'Art is our chief means of breaking bread with the dead.'.. W H Auden
'Our patience will achieve more than our force.'.. Edmund Burke
'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 became one of the Stately Homos of England'.. Quentin Crisp
'It is a mistake to think you can solve any major problems just with potatoes'.. Douglas Adams
'A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its autho'.. GK Chesterton
'In politics, strangely enough, the best way to play your cards is to lay them face upwards on the table'.. H G Wells
'One sometimes finds what one is not looking for.'.. Alexander Fleming
'There are some things you can't share without ending up liking each other.'.. J K Rowling
'We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.'.. Winston Churchill
'Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.'.. Bertrand Russell
'Life is wasted on the living'.. Douglas Adams
'Unless we remember we cannot understand.'.. E M Forster
'War is evil, but it is often the lesser evil.'.. George Orwell
'A man seldom thinks with more earnestness of anything than he does of his dinner'.. Samuel Johnson
'I'm spending a year dead for tax reasons.'.. Douglas Adams
'If you want to eat well in England, eat three breakfasts.'.. Somerset Maugham
'As far as I am concerned the paint is the person. I want it to work for me just as flesh does.'.. Lucien Freud
'Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few.'.. Winston Churchill
'Europe was created by history. America was created by philosophy'.. Margaret Thatcher