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Famous British Quotes
'Adversity is the first path to truth.'.. Lord Byron
'Good company and good discourse are the very sinews of virtue.'.. Izaak Walton
'Eating words has never given me indigestion.'.. Winston Churchill
'To me there has never been a higher source of earthly honor or distinction than that connected with advances in science'.. Isaac Newton
'I'm not afraid of death but I am afraid of dying. Pain can be alleviated by morphine but the pain of social ostracism cannot be taken away'.. Derek Jarman
'Royalty is the gold teeth in a mouth full of decay'.. John Osborne
'I feel monotony and death to be almost the same.'.. Charlotte Bronte
'No one does anything from a single motive.'.. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
'I have a fantasy where Ted Turner is elected president but refuses because he doesn't want to give up power.'.. Arthur C Clarke
'When everyone is somebody, then no one's anybody.'.. W S Gilbert
'As with the Christian religion, the worst advertisement for Socialism is its adherents'.. George Orwell
'A clear and innocent conscience fears nothing.'.. Elizabeth I
'If you feel that life is one of Gods jokes there is still no reason not to make it a good oke'.. Kenneth Williams
'I cant type but if I could I would rather play the Harpsichord'.. Peter Ustinov
'Grey towers of Durham, yet well I loved thy mixed and massive piles'.. Walter Scott
'Saints should always be judged guilty until they are proved innocent'.. George Orwell
'Neither a borrower nor a lender be.'.. William Shakespeare
'It is with words as with sunbeams - the more they are condensed, the deeper they burn'.. Robert Southey
'Charm, in most men and nearly all women, is a decoration.'.. E M Forster
'I do not believe that friends are necessarily the people you like best, they are merely the people who got there first'.. Peter Ustinov
'Evil is unspectacular and always human, and shares our bed and eats at our own table.'.. W H Auden
'Criticism, that fine flower of personal expression in the garden of letters'.. Joseph Conrad
'You don't have to be the Dalai Lama to tell people that life's about change'.. John Cleese
'When a thing's done, it's done, and if it's not done right, do it differently next time.'.. Arthur Ransome
'Death destroys a man, but the idea of death saves him.'.. E M Forster
'My favorite sexual fantasy is smearing my body in chocolate and being left alone in a room to eat it'.. Jo Brand
'The fact that logic cannot satisfy us awakens an almost insatiable hunger for the irrational.'.. A N Wilson
'It is not an arrogant government that chooses priorities, it's an irresponsible government that fails to choose'.. Tony Blair
'As a woman I have no country. As a woman my country is the whole world.'.. Virginia Woolf
'Catholics are just protestants protesting against protestantism'.. D H Lawrence