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Famous British Quotes
'We forge the chains we wear in life.'.. Charles Dickens
'Indifference and neglect often do much more damage than outright dislike.'.. J K Rowling
'Although prepared for martyrdom, I preferred that it be postponed.'.. Winston Churchill
'English winters are like the 1st world war. You start thinking am I going to get to the end of this'.. John Cleese
'The great advantage of being in a rut is that when one is in a rut one knows exactly where one is'.. Alan Bennett
'The price of greatness is responsibility.'.. Winston Churchill
'The love that lasts longest is the love that is never returned.'.. Somerset Maugham
'Necessity dispenseth with decorum.'.. Thomas Carlyle
'Every man at the bottom of his heart believes that he is a born detective.'.. John Buchan
'The person that loses their conscience has nothing left worth keeping.'.. Izaak Walton
'Taste every fruit of every tree in the garden at least once. It is an insult to creation not to experience it fully. Temperance is wickedness'.. Stephen Fry
'The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything'.. Oscar Wilde
'People say you should read your criticism because it will make you a better person but it doesn't. It just makes you a sad bitter old showbiz nightmare'.. Jo Brand
'Science must have originated in the feeling that something was wrong.'.. Thomas Carlyle
'Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs.'.. William Shakespeare
'Blessed is he who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed.'.. Jonathan Swift
'A lover without indiscretion is no lover at all.'.. Thomas Hardy
'The light, that lies In woman's eyes, Has been my heart's undoing.'.. Thomas More
'Lets face it Football is a game for commoners. As soon as you get a mortgage you start to like Tennis'.. Jonathan Ross
'Honest people don't hide their deeds.'.. Emily Bronte
'After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.'.. Aldous Huxley
'I think childhood is to everyone a lost land.'.. Dennis Potter
'The trouble with political jokes is that they get elected'.. Tim Brooke-Taylor
'He that will enjoy the brightness of sunshine, must quit the coolness of the shade'.. Samuel Johnson
'Squash - that's not exercise, it's flagellation.'.. Noel Coward
'Death destroys a man, but the idea of death saves him.'.. E M Forster
'There are no such things as Flowers there are only gladdened Leaves.'.. John Ruskin
'He that undervalues himself will undervalue others, and he that undervalues others will oppress them'.. Samuel Johnson
'Full, saturated colours have an emotional significance I want to avoid.'.. Lucien Freud
'Honour sinks where commerce long prevails.'.. Oliver Goldsmith