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Famous British Quotes
'I wouldnt say I was the best manager in the business but I was in the top 1'.. Brian Clough
'I love everything that's old, - old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wine'.. Oliver Goldsmith
'Deprivation is for me what daffodils were for Wordsworth.'.. Philip Larkin
'Courage is found in unlikely places.'.. J R R Tolkien
'It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious'.. Oscar Wilde
'We first make our habits, and then our habits make us.'.. John Dryden
'I have no consistency, except in politics; and that probably arises from my indifference to the subject altogether'.. Lord Byron
'Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people'.. Oscar Wilde
'As people are walking all the time, in the same spot, a path appears.'.. John Locke
'What makes life dreary is the want of a motive.'.. George Eliot
'The fact that logic cannot satisfy us awakens an almost insatiable hunger for the irrational.'.. A N Wilson
'True happiness consists not in the multitude of friends, but in the worth and choice.'.. Ben Jonson
'Facts are to the mind what food is to the body.'.. Edmund Burke
'Never trust a man, who when left alone with a tea cosey... Doesn't try it on.'.. Billy Connolly
'Proud people breed sad sorrows for themselves.'.. Emily Bronte
'Ambition makes more trusty slaves than need.'.. Ben Jonson
'All our discontents about what we want appeared to spring from the want of thankfulness for what we have.'.. Daniel Defoe
'Be yourself is about the worst advice you can give to some people.'.. J B Priestley
'Love is 2 minutes and 52 seconds of squelching noises'.. John Lydon (Johnny Rotten)
'Life’s never a postcard of life, is it? It never feels like how you’d want it to look'.. Russell Brand
'Adversity is the first path to truth.'.. Lord Byron
'Courage is rightly esteemed the first of human qualities... because it is the quality which guarantees all others.'.. Winston Churchill
'A poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language.'.. W H Auden
'The thing with Hi-Tech is that you always end up using scissors'.. David Hockney
'I love a scary movie. It makes your toes curl and it's not you going through it.'.. Sir Anthony Hopkins
'Life is a progress from want to want, not from enjoyment to enjoyment.'.. Samuel Johnson
'Society has always seemed to demand a little more from human beings than it will get in practice'.. George Orwell
'Immortality is really desirable, I guess. In terms of images, anyway.'.. Damien Hirst
'You may be as vicious about me as you please. You will only do me justice.'.. Richard Burton
'For truth is always strange; stranger than fiction.'.. Lord Byron