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Famous British Quotes
'Fathers should be neither seen nor heard. That is the only proper basis for family life'.. Oscar Wilde
'Illusion is the first of all pleasures.'.. Oscar Wilde
'Accursed be he that first invented war.'.. Christopher Marlowe
'Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all'.. Alfred Lord Tennyson
'A truth that's told with bad intent beats all the lies you can invent.'.. William Blake
'Art can never exist without naked beauty displayed.'.. William Blake
'The greatest good you can do for another is not just to share your riches but to reveal to him his own.'.. Benjamin Disraeli
'Riches are a good hand maiden, but a poor mistress.'.. Sir Francis Bacon
'The more we study the more we discover our ignorance.'.. Percy Bysshe Shelley
'It's not so much about what you ask as what you don't ask.'.. Michael Parkinson
'Life is obstinate and clings closest where it is most hated.'.. Mary Shelley
'There are strings in the human heart that had better not be vibrated.'.. Charles Dickens
'When a society has to resort to the lavatory for its humour the writing is on the wall'.. Alan Bennett
'Freedom is the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.'.. George Orwell
'Life’s never a postcard of life, is it? It never feels like how you’d want it to look'.. Russell Brand
'There is a pleasure in being mad which none but madmen know.'.. John Dryden
'In politics, guts is all'.. Barbara Castle
'A team effort is a lot of people doing what I say'.. Michael Winner
'Mankind is not likely to salvage civilization unless he can evolve a system of good and evil which is independent of heaven and hell'.. George Orwell
'Rock and roll doesn't necessarily mean a band. It doesn't mean a singer, and it doesn't mean a lyric, really. It's that question of trying to be immortal'.. Malcolm McLaren
'It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend.'.. John Dryden
'Never forget that only dead fish swim with the stream.'.. Malcolm Muggeridge
'Successful investing is anticipating the anticipations of others.'.. John Maynard Keynes
'Poverty of course is no disgrace, but it is damned annoying.'.. William Pitt (The Younger)
'Success - keeping your mind awake and your desire asleep.'.. Walter Scott
'Gentleman do not throw wine at ladies. They pour it over them'.. Auberon Waugh
'Grab a chance and you won't be sorry for a might-have-been.'.. Arthur Ransome
'There is no comparison between that which is lost by not succeeding and that which is lost by not trying.'.. Sir Francis Bacon
'Both read the Bible day and night, but thou read black where I read white'.. William Blake
'Always live in the ugliest house on the street - then you don't have to look at it.'.. David Hockney