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Famous British Quotes
'I wonder if anyone will ever know the emptiness of my life. Personal Diary -- Last entry "Oh what's the point?"'.. Kenneth Williams
'Mankind is not likely to salvage civilization unless he can evolve a system of good and evil which is independent of heaven and hell'.. George Orwell
'My goal is simple. It is a complete understanding of the universe, why it is as it is and why it exists at all.'.. Stephen Hawking
'My face looks like a wedding-cake left out in the rain.'.. W H Auden
'A woman's guess is much more accurate than a man's certainty.'.. Rudyard Kipling
'Man tends to increase at a greater rate than his means of subsistence.'.. Charles Darwin
'Life is easy to chronicle, but bewildering to practice.'.. E M Forster
'If you can't annoy somebody, there's little point in writing.'.. Sir Kingsley Amis
'I do not believe that any man fears to be dead, but only the stroke of death'.. Sir Francis Bacon
'Liberty is not merely a privilege to be conferred; it is a habit to be acquired'.. David Lloyd George
'Somebody said to me, 'But the Beatles were anti-materialistic.' That's a huge myth. John and I literally used to sit down and say, 'Now, let's write a swimming pool.''.. Paul McCartney
'I never had lunch in Brighton without wanting to take a woman to bed in the afternoon'.. John Osborne
'He was a bold man that first eat on oyster.'.. Jonathan Swift
'We drink one another's health and spoil our own.'.. Jerome K Jerome
'I think in terms of the day's resolutions, not the years'.'.. Henry Moore
'Dancing is the poetry of the foot.'.. John Dryden
'No legacy is so rich as honesty.'.. William Shakespeare
'Society has always seemed to demand a little more from human beings than it will get in practice'.. George Orwell
'Life has a practice of living you, if you don't live it.'.. Philip Larkin
'Youth would be an ideal state if it came a little later in life'.. Herbert Henry Asquith
'I had lunch with a chess champion the other day. I knew he was a chess champion because it took him 20 minutes to pass the salt.'.. Eric Sykes
'Money can't buy love, but it improves your bargaining position.'.. Christopher Marlowe
'It is the test of a good religion whether you can joke about it.'.. GK Chesterton
'The House of Lords is like a glass of champagne that has stood for five days'.. Clement Attlee
'Fond memory brings the light of other days around me.'.. Thomas More
'No one can read with profit that which he cannot learn to read with pleasure.'.. Thomas Hardy
'It's not wise to violate rules until you know how to observe them.'.. T S Eliot
'Everytime a child says 'I don't believe in fairies' there is a a little fairy somewhere that falls down dead.'.. J M Barrie
'Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference.'.. Winston Churchill
'All I ask is the chance to prove that money can't make me happy.'.. Spike Milligan