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Famous British Quotes
'Diplomats were invented simply to waste time.'.. David Lloyd George
'Always live in the ugliest house on the street - then you don't have to look at it.'.. David Hockney
'I can't stand innuendo. When I see one in a script I whip it out immediately'.. Kenneth Williams
'Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others.'.. Robert Louis Stevenson
'Nothing is more obstinate than a fashionable consensus.'.. Margaret Thatcher
'Life, as I discovered, holds no more wretched occupation than trying to make the English laugh.'.. Malcolm Muggeridge
'The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything'.. Oscar Wilde
'To destroy is still the strongest instinct in nature.'.. Max Beerbohm
'Men may be popular without being ambitious, but there is hardly an ambitious man who does not try to be popular.'.. Lord North
'Several excuses are always less convincing than one.'.. Aldous Huxley
'Humankind cannot bear very much reality.'.. T S Eliot
'Dickens is one of those authors who are well worth stealing.'.. George Orwell
'Henley is the Venice of the South'.. Boris Johnson
'No one can look back on his schooldays and say with truth that they were altogether unhappy'.. George Orwell
'The very essence of instinct is that it's followed independently of reason.'.. Charles Darwin
'I can imagine no more comfortable frame of mind than a humorous resignation'.. Somerset Maugham
'Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man'.. Sir Francis Bacon
'When it comes to life the critical thing is whether you take things for granted or take them with gratitude'.. GK Chesterton
'Sometimes we stare so long at a door that is closing that we see too late the one that is open.'.. Alexander Graham Bell
'If you aren't in over your head, how do you know how tall you are?'.. T S Eliot
'You never know what is enough unless you know what is more than enough.'.. William Blake
'It is easy to answer the ultimate questions - it saves you bothering with the immediate ones.'.. John Osborne
'This diamond has so many carats it's almost a turnip.'.. Richard Burton
'Television has bought murder back in to the home - where it belongs'.. Alfred Hitchcock
'The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none.'.. Thomas Carlyle
'People are wrong when they say opera is not what it used to be. It is what it used to be. That is what's wrong with it.'.. Noel Coward
'Be not a slave of words.'.. Thomas Carlyle
'Every exit is an entry somewhere else.'.. Sir Tom Stoppard
'Corruption never has been compulsory.'.. Anthony Eden
'God is the perfect poet.'.. Robert Browning