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Famous British Quotes
'Science must have originated in the feeling that something was wrong.'.. Thomas Carlyle
'Art can never exist without naked beauty displayed.'.. William Blake
'Theres only one thing worse than an Estate Agent but that can be safely lanced, drained and surgically dressed.'.. Stephen Fry
'Art is the symbol of the two noblest human efforts: to construct and to refrain from destruction.'.. Evelyn Waugh
'I used to think anyone doing anything weird was weird. Now I know that it is the people that call others weird that are weird'.. Paul McCartney
'I think to be oversensitive about cliches is like being oversensitive about table manners.'.. Evelyn Waugh
'To refuse awards is another way of accepting them with more noise than is normal'.. Peter Ustinov
'Subtlety may deceive you; integrity never will.'.. Oliver Cromwell
'Public opinion polls are rather like children in a garden, digging things up all the time to see how they're growing.'.. J B Priestley
'Life, as I discovered, holds no more wretched occupation than trying to make the English laugh.'.. Malcolm Muggeridge
'If we don't end war, war will end us.'.. H G Wells
'I think we have all experienced passion that is not in any sense reasonable.'.. Stephen Fry
'Education begins the gentleman, but reading, good company and reflection must finish him.'.. John Locke
'It is better to have a lion at the head of an army of sheep, than a sheep at the head of an army of lions'.. Daniel Defoe
'By indignities men come to dignities.'.. Sir Francis Bacon
'Time you enjoy wasting, was not wasted.'.. John Lennon
'Dickens is one of those authors who are well worth stealing.'.. George Orwell
'Life is a tragedy when seen in close-up, but a comedy in long-shot.'.. Charlie Chaplin
'Life is ours to be spent, not to be saved.'.. D H Lawrence
'I keep seeing myself in my daughter, and I see my mother in me and in her. Bloody hell.'.. Julie Walters
'I venture to say no war can be long carried on against the will of the people.'.. Edmund Burke
'Age is a very high price to pay for maturity.'.. Sir Tom Stoppard
'To me there has never been a higher source of earthly honor or distinction than that connected with advances in science'.. Isaac Newton
'Love is staying up all night with a sick child - or a healthy adult.'.. David Frost
'Everything government touches turns to crap.'.. Ringo Starr
'Thank goodness I was never sent to school; it would have rubbed off some of the originality.'.. Beatrix Potter
'Dinner parties are given most in the middle classes by way of revenge'.. William M Thackeray
'Never trust a man, who when left alone with a tea cosey... Doesn't try it on.'.. Billy Connolly
'Marriage is a very good thing, but I think it's a mistake to make a habit out of it.'.. Somerset Maugham
'Who overcomes by force, hath overcome but half his foe.'.. John Milton