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Famous British Quotes
'It is only in the world of objects that we have time and space and selves.'.. T S Eliot
'Probably the battle of Waterloo was won on the playing-fields of Eton, but the opening battles of all subsequent wars have been lost there'.. George Orwell
'It is sometimes necessary to lie damnably in the interests of the nation'.. Hilaire Belloc
'Her virtue was that she said what she thought, her vice that what she thought didn't amount to much.'.. Peter Ustinov
'Although prepared for martyrdom, I preferred that it be postponed.'.. Winston Churchill
'I think we have all experienced passion that is not in any sense reasonable.'.. Stephen Fry
'Not on one strand are all life's jewels strung.'.. William Morris
'Ale, man, ale's the stuff to drink for fellows whom it hurts to think.'.. A E Housman
'Society needs to condemn a little more and understand a little less.'.. John Major
'Mad Dogs and Englishmen go out in the midday sun'.. Noel Coward
'A woman, especially, if she have the misfortune of knowing anything, should conceal it as well as she can'.. Jane Austen
'An aim in life is the only fortune worth finding.'.. Robert Louis Stevenson
'Love in all eight tones and all five semitones of the word's full octave.'.. Stephen Fry
'I find it rather easy to portray a businessman. Being bland, rather cruel and incompetent comes naturally to me'.. John Cleese
'The remedy is worse than the disease.'.. Sir Francis Bacon
'There is only one class in the community that thinks more about money than the rich, and that is the poor'.. Oscar Wilde
'Maybe this world is another planets hell'.. Aldous Huxley
'What we need is not the will to believe, but the wish to find out.'.. William Wordsworth
'Flying is learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.'.. Douglas Adams
'Outside every fat man there was an even fatter man trying to close in.'.. Sir Kingsley Amis
'Art is our chief means of breaking bread with the dead.'.. W H Auden
'If Hitler invaded hell I would make at least a favorable reference to the devil in the House of Commons.'.. Winston Churchill
'Nothing can cure the soul but the senses, just as nothing can cure the senses but the soul.'.. Oscar Wilde
'Cities, like cats, will reveal themselves at night.'.. Rupert Brooke
'Feelings are like chemicals, the more you analyze them the worse they smell.'.. Charles Kingsley
'If you had a face like mine, you'd punch me right on the nose, and I'm just the fella to do it.'.. Stan Laurel
'There but for the grace of God goes God'.. Winston Churchill
'I hate people who think it's clever to take drugs... like custom officers'.. Jack Dee
'Catholics are just protestants protesting against protestantism'.. D H Lawrence
'The first and simplest emotion which we discover in the human mind, is curiosity.'.. Edmund Burke