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Famous British Quotes
'Memorial services are the cocktail parties of the geriatric set.'.. Harold Macmillan
'There are some ideas so wrong that only a very intelligent person could believe in them'.. George Orwell
'I do not live in the world of sobriety.'.. Oliver Reed
'The House of Lords is like a glass of champagne that has stood for five days'.. Clement Attlee
'Charm, in most men and nearly all women, is a decoration.'.. E M Forster
'To get a job where the only thing you have to do in your career is to make people laugh-well, it's the best job in the world'.. Ronnie Barker
'The main facts in human life are five: birth, food, sleep, love and death'.. E M Forster
'Despair is a narcotic. It lulls the mind into indifference.'.. Charlie Chaplin
'All political power is a trust'.. Charles James Fox
'People who can't be witty exert themselves to be devout and affectionate.'.. George Eliot
'Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs.'.. William Shakespeare
'What though youth gave love and roses, Age still leaves us friends and wine.'.. Thomas More
'Good sense about trivialities is better than nonsense about things that matter'.. Max Beerbohm
'Music is the best means we have of digesting time.'.. W H Auden
'Architecture aims at Eternity.'.. Christopher Wren
'I used to look at these pictures of trumpeters pointing their instrument to the ceiling. Stunning pictures, but if you play the trumpet and point it upwards, all the spit comes back into your mouth!'.. Humphrey Lyttleton
'Silence is as deep as eternity, speech a shallow as time.'.. Thomas Carlyle
'The remedy is worse than the disease.'.. Sir Francis Bacon
'All I can think of the Middle Ages is that everything must have chafed terribly'.. A A Gill
'To cure the British disease with socialism was like trying to cure leukaemia with leeches'.. Margaret Thatcher
'It is not good to cross the bridge before you get to it.'.. Judi Dench
'The wisest prophets make sure of the event first.'.. Horace Walpole
'No amount of ability is of the slightest avail without honor.'.. Thomas Carlyle
'If at first you don’t succeed, failure may be your style'.. Quentin Crisp
'If you don't know where you are going, any road will get you there.'.. Lewis Carroll
'No minister ever stood, or could stand, against public opinion.'.. Robert Peel
'You owe it to us all to get on with what you're good at.'.. W H Auden
'Man hands on misery to man. It deepens like a coastal shelf. Get out as early as you can, and don't have any kids yourself'.. Philip Larkin
'A family with the wrong members in control; that, perhaps, is as near as one can come to describing England in a phrase.'.. George Orwell
'There's no possibility of being witty without a little ill-nature.'.. Richard Sheridan