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Famous British Quotes
'But the answer to how to live is to stop thinking about it. And just to live. But you're doing that anyway. However you intellectualise it, you still just live.'.. Damien Hirst
'I'm not afraid of dying I just don't want to be there when it happens.'.. Spike Milligan
'Lies are sufficient to breed opinion, and opinion brings on substance'.. Sir Francis Bacon
'Oh the nerves, the nerves; the mysteries of this machine called man! Oh the little that unhinges it, poor creatures that we are!'.. Charles Dickens
'When I am dead, I hope it may be said: His sins were scarlet, but his books were read'.. Hilaire Belloc
'Let everyone regulate his conduct... by the golden rule of doing to others as in similar circumstances we would have them do to us, and the path of duty will be clear before him.'.. William Wilberforce
'I felt my mother about the place. I don't think she haunts me, but I wouldn't put it past her.'.. Julie Walters
'It is only the dull who like practical jokes'.. Oscar Wilde
'If a farmer fills his barn with grain, he gets mice. If he leaves it empty, he gets actors'.. Walter Scott
'I went into the business for the money, and the art grew out of it. If people are disillusioned by that remark, I can't help it. It's the truth.'.. Charlie Chaplin
'Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.'.. George Bernard Shaw
'I don't watch television, I think it destroys the art of talking about oneself.'.. Stephen Fry
'So I was getting into my car, and this bloke says to me "Can you give me a lift?" I said "Sure, you look great, the world's your oyster, go for it."'.. Tommy Cooper
'How long was I in the army? Five foot eleven.'.. Spike Milligan
'Life is obstinate and clings closest where it is most hated.'.. Mary Shelley
'If history were taught in the form of stories, it would never be forgotten'.. Rudyard Kipling
'There is no comparison between that which is lost by not succeeding and that which is lost by not trying.'.. Sir Francis Bacon
'Not on one strand are all life's jewels strung.'.. William Morris
'Sometimes the most positive thing you can be in a boring society is absolutely negative'.. John Lydon (Johnny Rotten)
'Men will pay large sums to whores for telling them they are not bores.'.. W H Auden
'The light, that lies In woman's eyes, Has been my heart's undoing.'.. Thomas More
'Sleep, that deplorable curtailment of the joy of life.'.. Virginia Woolf
'Life is generally something that happens elsewhere.'.. Alan Bennett
'The worlds second worst crime is boredom. The first is being a bore'.. Cecil Beaton
'What's done can't be undone.'.. William Shakespeare
'After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.'.. Aldous Huxley
'Impropriety is the soul of wit.'.. Somerset Maugham
'Be thine own palace, or the world's thy jail.'.. John Donne
'Why buy a book when you can join a library'.. Ricky Gervais
'Many a man is praised for his reserve and so-called shyness when he is simply too proud to risk making a fool of himself.'.. J B Priestley