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Famous British Quotes
'I would much prefer to be a judge than a coal miner because of the absence of falling coal'.. Peter Cook
'My unhealthy affection for my second daughter has waned. Now I despise all my seven children equally.'.. Evelyn Waugh
'We give advice by the bucket, but take it by the grain.'.. Sir Tom Stoppard
'Britain is the grit in the European oyster'.. John Major
'After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.'.. Aldous Huxley
'To cure the British disease with socialism was like trying to cure leukaemia with leeches'.. Margaret Thatcher
'Deprivation is for me what daffodils were for Wordsworth.'.. Philip Larkin
'By nature, men love newfangledness.'.. Geoffrey Chaucer
'I never had lunch in Brighton without wanting to take a woman to bed in the afternoon'.. John Osborne
'If there were no bad people, there would be no good lawyers.'.. Charles Dickens
'The House of Lords is like a glass of champagne that has stood for five days'.. Clement Attlee
'We grow small trying to be great.'.. David Hockney
'Golf is so popular simply because it is the best game in the world at which to be bad.'.. A A Milne
'Being a woman is a terribly difficult task, since it consists principally in dealing with men.'.. Joseph Conrad
'I never saw a wild thing sorry for itself. A small bird will drop frozen dead from a bough without ever having felt sorry for itself.'.. D H Lawrence
'In my opinion, most of the great men of the past were only there for the beer - the wealth, prestige and grandeur that went with the power.'.. A J P Taylor
'Anxiety is the hand maiden of creativity.'.. T S Eliot
'The only possible way there would be an uprising in this country would be if they banned caravanning and car boot sales'.. Victoria Wood
'Facts are to the mind what food is to the body.'.. Edmund Burke
'Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man'.. Sir Francis Bacon
'What's done can't be undone.'.. William Shakespeare
'When one is writing a novel in the first person, one must be that person.'.. Daphne du Maurier
'One way of looking at speech is to say it is a constant stratagem to cover nakedness.'.. Harold Pinter
'An actor is something less than a man, while an actress is something more than a woman.'.. Richard Burton
'All war represents a failure of diplomacy.'.. Tony Benn
'A woman, especially, if she have the misfortune of knowing anything, should conceal it as well as she can'.. Jane Austen
'No advance in wealth, no softening of manners, no reform or revolution has ever brought human equality a millimeter nearer'.. George Orwell
'Several excuses are always less convincing than one.'.. Aldous Huxley
'Catholics are just protestants protesting against protestantism'.. D H Lawrence
'Faith is a passionate intuition.'.. William Wordsworth