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Famous British Quotes
'Life could be wonderful if people would leave you alone.'.. Charlie Chaplin
'To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.'.. Oscar Wilde
'There can be no liberty unless there is economic liberty.'.. Margaret Thatcher
'England and America are two countries separated by the same language.'.. George Bernard Shaw
'Everything I've ever told you, including this, is a lie'.. Peter Cook
'Life is a comedy for those who think... and a tragedy for those who feel'.. Horace Walpole
'I've never intended to be controversial but it's very easy to be controversial in pop music because nobody ever is'.. Morrissey
'A State without the means of some change is without the means of its conservation.'.. Edmund Burke
'The world is like a grand staircase, some are going up and some are going down.'.. Samuel Johnson
'You will be better advised to watch what we do instead of what we say.'.. A A Milne
'A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject.'.. Winston Churchill
'I want to live my life so that my nights are not full of regrets.'.. D H Lawrence
'If we have to have Tories, good luck to her. She is the best man among them'.. Barbara Castle
'The very essence of instinct is that it's followed independently of reason.'.. Charles Darwin
'Every noble work is at first impossible.'.. Thomas Carlyle
'Little children are still the symbol of the eternal marriage between love and duty.'.. George Eliot
'When you've seen a nude infant doing a backward somersault you know why clothing exists'.. Stephen Fry
'Give the enemy not only a road for flight, but also a means of defending it.'.. Thomas Hardy
'I have never acted on a press release or gone out to dinner with a PR. I think PR is a ridiculous job. They are the headlice of civilisation'.. A A Gill
'Islington is about as far as you can get from London without needing yellow-fever jabs'.. A A Gill
'Long hair is an unpardonable offense which should be punishable by death.'.. Morrissey
'Happiness is not a possession to be prized, it is a quality of thought, a state of mind.'.. Daphne du Maurier
'The future is purchased by the present.'.. Samuel Johnson
'Sooner or later everyone sits down to a banquet of consequences.'.. Robert Louis Stevenson
'It's not wise to violate rules until you know how to observe them.'.. T S Eliot
'All the people like us are we, and everyone else is They.'.. Rudyard Kipling
'The greatest scholars are not usually the wisest people.'.. Geoffrey Chaucer
'Responsibilities gravitate to the person who can shoulder them.'.. Sir Tom Stoppard
'Big Brother is watching you.'.. George Orwell
'We started off trying to set up a small anarchist community, but people wouldn't obey the rules.'.. Alan Bennett