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Famous British Quotes
'A person is a fool to become a writer. His only compensation is absolute freedom'.. Roald Dahl
'Of all the objects of hatred, a woman once loved is the most hateful.'.. Max Beerbohm
'What passions cannot music raise or quell?'.. John Dryden
'You can preach a better sermon with your life than with your lips.'.. Oliver Goldsmith
'It's all right letting yourself go, as long as you can get yourself back.'.. Mick Jagger
'No man is useless while he has a friend.'.. Robert Louis Stevenson
'If I played Hamlet, they`d call it a horror film'.. Peter Cushing
'Capitalism is the astounding belief that the most wickedest of men will do the most wickedest of things for the greatest good of everyone'.. John Maynard Keynes
'Heresies are experiments in man's unsatisfied search for truth.'.. H G Wells
'A solitary laugh is often a laugh of superiority.'.. Graham Greene
'There are some things you can't share without ending up liking each other.'.. J K Rowling
'How paramount the future is to the present when one is surrounded by children.'.. Charles Darwin
'I have a memory like an elephant. In fact, elephants often consult me.'.. Noel Coward
'Do not do an immoral thing for moral reasons.'.. Thomas Hardy
'I've always said if you want to outwit an Englishman touch him when he doesn't want to be touched'.. Julian Barnes
'Every great person is always being helped by everybody; for their gift is to get good out of all things and all persons.'.. John Ruskin
'At the end of the Beatles, I really was done in for the first time in my life. Until then, I really was a kind of cocky sod.'.. Paul McCartney
'I am prepared for the worst, but hope for the best.'.. Benjamin Disraeli
'No man is an island, entire of itself'.. John Donne
'It is with words as with sunbeams - the more they are condensed, the deeper they burn'.. Robert Southey
'Its the menopause. I have got my own climate'.. Julie Walters
'Now that I know what I want, I don't have to hold on to it quite so much.'.. Lucien Freud
'The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything'.. Oscar Wilde
'A yawn is a silent shout'.. GK Chesterton
'No ghost was ever seen by two pairs of eyes.'.. Thomas Carlyle
'The trouble with words is that you never know whose mouths they have been in.'.. Dennis Potter
'To know all is not to forgive all. It is to despise everybody'.. Quentin Crisp
'Better three hours too soon than a minute too late.'.. William Shakespeare
'Youth would be an ideal state if it came a little later in life'.. Herbert Henry Asquith
'Fortunate indeed the child who first sees the light of day in that romantic town'.. Andrew Carnegie