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Famous British Quotes
'My boyfriend had a sex manual but he was dyslexic. I was lying there and he was looking for my vinegar'.. Victoria Wood
'It's very hard to be a gentleman and a writer.'.. Somerset Maugham
'Squash - that's not exercise, it's flagellation.'.. Noel Coward
'Jogging is for people who aren't intelligent enough to watch breakfast TV'.. Victoria Wood
'Good and bad men are less than they seem.'.. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
'A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its autho'.. GK Chesterton
'The martyr sacrifices themselves entirely in vain. Or rather not in vain; for they make the narrow narrower'.. Florence Nightingale
'Despair is a narcotic. It lulls the mind into indifference.'.. Charlie Chaplin
'He was a bold man that first eat on oyster.'.. Jonathan Swift
'Diplomats were invented simply to waste time.'.. David Lloyd George
'Courage is found in unlikely places.'.. J R R Tolkien
'From the middle of life onward, only he remains vitally alive who is ready to die with life'.. Samuel Johnson
'By gnawing through a dike, even a rat may drown a nation.'.. Edmund Burke
'A laugh is worth a hundred groans in any market.'.. Charles Lamb
'You have no idea what a poor opinion I have of myself and how little I deserve it'.. W S Gilbert
'I think that by ignoring the show you're ignoring the audience who put you there'.. Simon Cowell
'I am prepared to go anywhere, provided it be forward.'.. David Livingstone
'It is only when you see people looking ridiculous that you realize just how much you love them'.. Agatha Christie
'Life is like a very short visit to a toyshop between birth and death.'.. Desmond Morris
'All political power is a trust'.. Charles James Fox
'When you've seen a nude infant doing a backward somersault you know why clothing exists'.. Stephen Fry
'If I played Hamlet, they`d call it a horror film'.. Peter Cushing
'Peace rules the day, where reason rules the mind.'.. Wilkie Collins
'I have a great mind to believe in Christianity for the mere pleasure of fancying I may be damned'.. Lord Byron
'The truth that is suppressed by friends is the readiest weapon of the enemy.'.. Robert Louis Stevenson
'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
'Media is just a word that has come to mean bad journalism.'.. Graham Greene
'Some folk want their luck buttered'.. Thomas Hardy
'The job of the artist is always to deepen the mystery.'.. Francis Bacon
'To myself I am only a child playing on the beach, while vast oceans of truth lie undiscovered before me'.. Isaac Newton