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Famous British Quotes
'Bexhill on Sea is a peck on the cheek: Hastings is a lolloping tongue down the throat'.. Jo Brand
'Don't talk to me about a man's being able to talk sense; everyone can talk sense. Can he talk nonsense?'.. William Pitt (The Younger)
'Who overcomes by force, hath overcome but half his foe.'.. John Milton
'Looking back at all the people I have insulted, I am mildly surprised that I am still allowed to exist.'.. Auberon Waugh
'The greatest man is he who forms the taste of a nation; the next greatest is he who corrupts it.'.. Joshua Reynolds
'Humiliation is the beginning of sanctification.'.. John Donne
'Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.'.. George Bernard Shaw
'I have measured out my life with coffee spoons.'.. T S Eliot
'Anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job.'.. Douglas Adams
'Any truth is better than indefinite doubt.'.. Arthur Conan Doyle
'Death is just life's next big adventure.'.. J K Rowling
'Taste is the only morality. Tell me what you like and I'll tell you what you are'.. John Ruskin
'A dirty joke is a sort of mental rebellion.'.. George Orwell
'The job of the artist is always to deepen the mystery.'.. Francis Bacon
'The very essence of instinct is that it's followed independently of reason.'.. Charles Darwin
'I am told that I talk in shorthand and then smudge it.'.. J R R Tolkien
'I got nasty habits; I take tea at three.'.. Mick Jagger
'The greatest pleasure I know is to do a good action by stealth and have it found out by accident.'.. Charles Lamb
'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
'It is not an arrogant government that chooses priorities, it's an irresponsible government that fails to choose'.. Tony Blair
'I did not fully understand the dread term 'terminal illness' until I saw Heathrow for myself.'.. Dennis Potter
'It may be the cock that crows, but it is the hen that lays the eggs.'.. Margaret Thatcher
'Its the menopause. I have got my own climate'.. Julie Walters
'Every man dies. Not every man really lives.'.. William Wallace
'We first make our habits, and then our habits make us.'.. John Dryden
'Wine is bottled poetry.'.. Robert Louis Stevenson
'I wanted above all else not to be like my mum.'.. Julie Walters
'I have a fantasy where Ted Turner is elected president but refuses because he doesn't want to give up power.'.. Arthur C Clarke
'Long run is a misleading guide to current affairs. In the long run we are all dead.'.. John Maynard Keynes
'People say you should read your criticism because it will make you a better person but it doesn't. It just makes you a sad bitter old showbiz nightmare'.. Jo Brand