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Famous British Quotes
'I'm all in favour of free expression provided it's kept rigidly under control.'.. Alan Bennett
'Charm, in most men and nearly all women, is a decoration.'.. E M Forster
'Discretion is the perfection of reason, and a guide to us in all the duties of life.'.. Walter Scott
'A day wasted on others is not wasted on one's self.'.. Charles Dickens
'Our own heart, and not other men's opinions form our true honor.'.. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
'A kitten is in the animal world what a rosebud is in the garden.'.. Robert Southey
'WH Auden didnt love God, he just fancied him'.. Stephen Spender
'I used to desire many, many things, but now I have just one desire, and that's to get rid of all my other desires'.. John Cleese
'The first and simplest emotion which we discover in the human mind, is curiosity.'.. Edmund Burke
'An unexciting truth may be eclipsed by a thrilling lie.'.. Aldous Huxley
'All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.'.. Winston Churchill
'What though youth gave love and roses, Age still leaves us friends and wine.'.. Thomas More
'Greenwich possesses the best air, the best prospect and the best conversation'.. Daniel Defoe
'Wouldn't it be better to have a watertight law designed to catch the guilty, rather than a press release law designed to catch the headlines?'.. William Hague
'If I were compelled to choose between living in west bromwich or florence I would make straight for west bromwich'.. J B Priestley
'I went into the business for the money, and the art grew out of it. If people are disillusioned by that remark, I can't help it. It's the truth.'.. Charlie Chaplin
'A bachelor's life is a fine breakfast, a flat lunch, and a miserable dinner.'.. Sir Francis Bacon
'An author who speaks about their own books is almost as bad as a mother who speaks about her own children.'.. Benjamin Disraeli
'All wealth is the product of labour.'.. John Locke
'Paganism is infectious, more infectious than diphtheria or piety.'.. E M Forster
'An idea, like a ghost, must be spoken to a little before it will explain itself.'.. Charles Dickens
'Fear is the mother of foresight.'.. Thomas Hardy
'Anything is good if it's made of chocolate.'.. Jo Brand
'Any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in Mankind; And therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee.'.. John Donne
'Contraceptives should be used on every conceivable occasion.'.. Spike Milligan
'I would much prefer to be a judge than a coal miner because of the absence of falling coal'.. Peter Cook
'Thought is the parent of the deed.'.. Thomas Carlyle
'Money can't buy you happiness but it does bring you a more pleasant form of misery.'.. Spike Milligan
'Subtlety may deceive you; integrity never will.'.. Oliver Cromwell
'Immortality is really desirable, I guess. In terms of images, anyway.'.. Damien Hirst