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Famous British Quotes
'It is very good advice to believe only what an artist does, rather than what he says about his work.'.. David Hockney
'Now that I know what I want, I don't have to hold on to it quite so much.'.. Lucien Freud
'However I dress it up, I was a spy and I am not proud of it'.. Christine Keeler
'TV is as injurious to the soul as fast food is to the body'.. Quentin Crisp
'The delicate balance between modesty and conceit is popularity.'.. Max Beerbohm
'Who's ever going to write a film in which I get the girl? Me!'.. John Cleese
'Truth emerges more readily from error than from confusion.'.. Sir Francis Bacon
'Who overcomes by force, hath overcome but half his foe.'.. John Milton
'Men think about women. Women think about what men think about them.'.. Peter Ustinov
'All men would be tyrants if they could.'.. Daniel Defoe
'The way to tell if a man is sexually excited is to check if he is breathing'.. Jo Brand
'Everybody grows but me.'.. Queen Victoria
'A dream you dream alone is only a dream. A dream you dream together is reality'.. John Lennon
'Men marry because they are tired; women, because they are curious; both are disappointed'.. Oscar Wilde
'It is no wonder that people are so horrible when they start their life as children.'.. Sir Kingsley Amis
'I wonder what fool it was that first invented kissing.'.. Jonathan Swift
'I am told that I talk in shorthand and then smudge it.'.. J R R Tolkien
'In every American there is an air of incorrigible innocence, which seems to conceal a diabolical cunning.'.. A E Housman
'It is not an arrogant government that chooses priorities, it's an irresponsible government that fails to choose'.. Tony Blair
'Carry out a random act of kindness, with no expectation of reward, safe in the knowledge that one day someone might do the same for you.'.. Diana Spencer
'Wine is bottled poetry.'.. Robert Louis Stevenson
'The remedy is worse than the disease.'.. Sir Francis Bacon
'How long was I in the army? Five foot eleven.'.. Spike Milligan
'One should always play fairly when one has the winning cards.'.. Oscar Wilde
'The person that loses their conscience has nothing left worth keeping.'.. Izaak Walton
'I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat.'.. Winston Churchill
'A people always ends by resembling its shadow.'.. Rudyard Kipling
'I'll give you my opinion of the human race in a nutshell... their heart's in the right place, but their head is a thoroughly inefficient organ.'.. Somerset Maugham
'Compromise is the best and cheapest lawyer.'.. Robert Louis Stevenson
'Tolerance is another word for indifference.'.. Somerset Maugham