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Famous British Quotes
'We have always found the Irish a bit odd. They refuse to be English.'.. Winston Churchill
'Everyone seems to fear dying alone. I have never understood this - who wants to die and be polite at the same time'.. Quentin Crisp
'The kind of people who always go on about whether a thing is in good taste invariably have very bad taste'.. Joe Orton
'The very essence of instinct is that it's followed independently of reason.'.. Charles Darwin
'Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown.'.. William Shakespeare
'Money doesn't mind if we say it's evil, it goes from strength to strength. It's a fiction, an addiction, and a tacit conspiracy'.. Martin Amis
'Britain's most useful role is somewhere between bee and dinosaur.'.. Harold Macmillan
'Why are women... so much more interesting to men than men are to women?'.. Virginia Woolf
'There is no sin but ignorance.'.. Christopher Marlowe
'Adversity is the first path to truth.'.. Lord Byron
'Conventionality is not morality.'.. Charlotte Bronte
'A lover without indiscretion is no lover at all.'.. Thomas Hardy
'I'm not afraid of death but I am afraid of dying. Pain can be alleviated by morphine but the pain of social ostracism cannot be taken away'.. Derek Jarman
'Swansea - Ugh, Lovely town'.. Dylan Thomas
'Love works a different way in different minds, the fool it enlightens and the wise it blinds'.. John Dryden
'How you think when you lose determines how long it will be until you win'.. GK Chesterton
'The longer you look at an object, the more abstract it becomes, and, ironically, the more real.'.. Lucien Freud
'A nation trying to tax itself to prosperity is rather like a man standing in a bucket and trying to lift himself up by the handle'.. Winston Churchill
'Time is but the shadow of the world upon the background of Eternity.'.. Jerome K Jerome
'Whenever people talk to me about the weather I always feel certain that they mean something else'.. Oscar Wilde
'If you feel depressed or let down my advice is to roast a chicken'.. Delia Smith
'If a farmer fills his barn with grain, he gets mice. If he leaves it empty, he gets actors'.. Walter Scott
'Life is a progress from want to want, not from enjoyment to enjoyment.'.. Samuel Johnson
'In general, pride is at the bottom of all great mistakes.'.. John Ruskin
'The only way of catching a train I have ever discovered is to miss the train before'.. GK Chesterton
'The habit of religion is oppressive, an easy way out of thought.'.. Peter Ustinov
'It is a dangerous thing to have instant access to your emotions.'.. Dennis Potter
'I have nothing to declare except my genuis.'.. Oscar Wilde
'A slavish bondage to parents cramps every faculty of the mind.'.. Mary Shelley
'You owe it to us all to get on with what you're good at.'.. W H Auden