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Famous British Quotes
'Art can never exist without naked beauty displayed.'.. William Blake
'You shall judge a man by his foes as well as by his friends.'.. Joseph Conrad
'Boredom is the legitimate kingdom of the philanthropic.'.. Virginia Woolf
'A professor is someone who talks in someone else's sleep.'.. W H Auden
'A few honest men are better than numbers.'.. Oliver Cromwell
'Politics is the art of making the inevitable seem planned'.. Quentin Crisp
'Those who will not reason, are bigots, those who cannot, are fools, and those who dare not, are slaves'.. Lord Byron
'Somebody said to me, 'But the Beatles were anti-materialistic.' That's a huge myth. John and I literally used to sit down and say, 'Now, let's write a swimming pool.''.. Paul McCartney
'Peace rules the day, where reason rules the mind.'.. Wilkie Collins
'When one is writing a novel in the first person, one must be that person.'.. Daphne du Maurier
'Sex is a momentary itch, love never lets you go.'.. Sir Kingsley Amis
'The pollen count, now that’s a difficult job. Especially if you’ve got hay fever'.. Milton Jones
'Fear is the mother of foresight.'.. Thomas Hardy
'I don't think Henry Kissinger would have lasted 48 hours at Old Trafford.'.. Tommy Docherty
'Love is only a dirty trick played on us to achieve continuation of the species.'.. Somerset Maugham
'Men of my age live in a state of continual desperation.'.. Vita Sackville-West
'There are some things only intellectuals are crazy enough to believe'.. George Orwell
'Cities, like cats, will reveal themselves at night.'.. Rupert Brooke
'Animals are my friends... and I don't eat my friends.'.. George Bernard Shaw
'You and I come by road or rail, but economists travel on infrastructure'.. Margaret Thatcher
'You cannot fashion a wit out of two half-wits.'.. Neil Kinnock
'In the long history of humankind (and animal kind, too) those who learned to collaborate and improvise most effectively have prevailed.'.. Charles Darwin
'Although prepared for martyrdom, I preferred that it be postponed.'.. Winston Churchill
'The pain of parting is nothing to the joy of meeting again.'.. Charles Dickens
'It was such a lovely day I thought it was a pity to get up'.. Somerset Maugham
'Fond memory brings the light of other days around me.'.. Thomas More
'Until you understand a writer's ignorance, presume yourself ignorant of his understanding'.. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
'The news is always bad, even when it sounds good'.. Aldous Huxley
'One of the things being in politics has taught me is that men are not a reasoned or reasonable sex'.. Margaret Thatcher
'Talking is the disease of age.'.. Ben Jonson