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Famous British Quotes
'Men marry because they are tired; women, because they are curious; both are disappointed'.. Oscar Wilde
'At fifty everyone has the face he deserves.'.. George Orwell
'I have a fantasy where Ted Turner is elected president but refuses because he doesn't want to give up power.'.. Arthur C Clarke
'I only go out to get me a fresh appetite for being alone.'.. Lord Byron
'Where large sums of money are concerned, it is advisable to trust nobody'.. Agatha Christie
'When a stupid man is doing something he is ashamed of, he always declares that it is his duty.'.. George Bernard Shaw
'Every increased possession loads us with a new weariness.'.. John Ruskin
'Long hair is an unpardonable offense which should be punishable by death.'.. Morrissey
'For my part, I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move.'.. Robert Louis Stevenson
'No bird soars too high if he soars with his own wings.'.. William Blake
'I do not wish women to have power over men; but over themselves'.. Mary Shelley
'The worst of revolutions is a restoration'.. Charles James Fox
'It does not do to leave a live dragon out of your calculations, if you live near him'.. J R R Tolkien
'Squash - that's not exercise, it's flagellation.'.. Noel Coward
'The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything'.. Oscar Wilde
'Life, an age to the miserable, and a moment to the happy.'.. Sir Francis Bacon
'Dare to be honest and fear no labour.'.. Robert Burns
'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
'The aim of a joke is not to degrade the human being, but to remind him that he is already degraded'.. George Orwell
'You and I come by road or rail, but economists travel on infrastructure'.. Margaret Thatcher
'A poem is true if it hangs together. Information points to something else. A poem points to nothing but itself'.. E M Forster
'No one can look back on his schooldays and say with truth that they were altogether unhappy'.. George Orwell
'There is frequently more to be learned from the unexpected questions of a child than the discourses of men'.. John Locke
'General principles... are to the facts as the root and sap of a tree are to its leaves'.. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
'Britain is the grit in the European oyster'.. John Major
'Childhood is measured out by sounds and smells and sights, before the dark hour of reason grows.'.. John Betjeman
'Rock and roll doesn't necessarily mean a band. It doesn't mean a singer, and it doesn't mean a lyric, really. It's that question of trying to be immortal'.. Malcolm McLaren
'It's not wise to violate rules until you know how to observe them.'.. T S Eliot
'Everyone ought to bear patiently the results of his own conduct.'.. William Shakespeare
'It is curious that every creed promises a paradise on death which is unthinkable for anyone of taste'.. Evelyn Waugh