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Famous British Quotes
'Culture is the process by which a person becomes all that they were created capable of being'.. Thomas Carlyle
'A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men.'.. Roald Dahl
'I think people should be free to engage in any sexual practices they choose; they should draw the line at goats though.'.. Elton John
'All a poet can do today is warn.'.. Wilfred Owen
'To enjoy freedom we have to control ourselves.'.. Virginia Woolf
'My boat can sleep 6 people that know each other well or 1 prude'.. Peter Ustinov
'Death is the only pure, beautiful conclusion of a great passion.'.. D H Lawrence
'The trouble with political jokes is that they get elected'.. Tim Brooke-Taylor
'Silence is the most perfect expression of scorn.'.. George Bernard Shaw
'Deer hunting would be a fine sport if only the deer had guns'.. W S Gilbert
'Except a living man, there is nothing more wonderful than a book.'.. Charles Kingsley
'Originality is a thing we constantly clamour for, and constantly quarrel with.'.. Thomas Carlyle
'I have two ambitions in life: one is to drink every pub dry, the other is to sleep with every woman on earth.'.. Oliver Reed
'Age is a very high price to pay for maturity.'.. Sir Tom Stoppard
'A poet is a professional maker of verbal objects.'.. W H Auden
'Look back, and smile on perils past.'.. Walter Scott
'Maybe this world is another planets hell'.. Aldous Huxley
'I am half British and half American. My passport has an eagle with a tea bag in its mouth'.. Bob Hope
'Conviction is worthless unless it is converted into conduct.'.. Thomas Carlyle
'Time is everything; five minutes make the difference between victory and defeat'.. Horatio Nelson
'Dancing is a perpendicular expression of a horizontal desire.'.. George Bernard Shaw
'I like long walks, especially when they are taken by people who annoy me.'.. Noel Coward
'Love is love's reward.'.. John Dryden
'How much easier it is to be critical than to be correct.'.. Benjamin Disraeli
'We cast a shadow on something wherever we stand.'.. E M Forster
'Cowards die many times before their deaths; the valiant never taste of death but once'.. William Shakespeare
'If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear'.. George Orwell
'One is certain of nothing but the truth of one's own emotions.'.. E M Forster
'Despair is a narcotic. It lulls the mind into indifference.'.. Charlie Chaplin
'A friend is a gift you give yourself.'.. Robert Louis Stevenson