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Famous British Quotes
'Despair is a narcotic. It lulls the mind into indifference.'.. Charlie Chaplin
'Art has to move you and design does not, unless it's a good design for a bus.'.. David Hockney
'A verbal art like poetry is reflective; it stops to think. Music is immediate, it goes on to become'.. W H Auden
'Diplomats were invented simply to waste time.'.. David Lloyd George
'Proof that God has an odd sense of humour - after inventing Haute Cuisine he gave it to the French'.. A A Gill
'Every man over forty is a scoundrel.'.. George Bernard Shaw
'He that loves to be flattered is worthy o' the flatterer.'.. William Shakespeare
'How inappropriate to call this planet Earth when it is quite clearly Ocean.'.. Arthur C Clarke
'I always said God was against art and I still believe it.'.. Edward Elgar
'I am told that I talk in shorthand and then smudge it.'.. J R R Tolkien
'The dread of evil is a much more forcible principle of human actions than the prospect of good.'.. John Locke
'I think that making love is the best form of exercise.'.. Cary Grant
'Language ought to be the joint creation of poets and manual workers'.. George Orwell
'Nothing can be beautiful which is not true.'.. John Ruskin
'Taste every fruit of every tree in the garden at least once. It is an insult to creation not to experience it fully. Temperance is wickedness'.. Stephen Fry
'I can make a lord, but only God can make a gentleman.'.. James I
'Invention, it must be humbly admitted, does not consist in creating out of voice, but out of chaos'.. Mary Shelley
'I have a great mind to believe in Christianity for the mere pleasure of fancying I may be damned'.. Lord Byron
'Justice delayed is justice denied.'.. W E Gladstone
'Oh, what a shock. My career must be slipping. This is the first time I've been available to pick up an award.'.. Michael Caine
'Better a witty fool than a foolish wit.'.. William Shakespeare
'You don't have to be the Dalai Lama to tell people that life's about change'.. John Cleese
'Anyone can tell the truth, but only very few of us can make epigrams.'.. Somerset Maugham
'Tolerance is another word for indifference.'.. Somerset Maugham
'Diplomacy, is the art of letting somebody else have your way.'.. David Frost
'Democracy means government by discussion, but it is only effective if you can stop people talking'.. Clement Attlee
'I've never intended to be controversial but it's very easy to be controversial in pop music because nobody ever is'.. Morrissey
'Endurance is patience concentrated.'.. Thomas Carlyle
'I hate publicity, and I have contrived to survive to be an old woman without it, except in the homey atmosphere of Agricultural Shows'.. Beatrix Potter
'The first condition of understanding a foreign country is to smell it.'.. Rudyard Kipling