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Famous British Quotes
'The more highly public life is organized the lower does its morality sink'.. E M Forster
'Criticism, that fine flower of personal expression in the garden of letters'.. Joseph Conrad
'All the war-propaganda, all the screaming and lies and hatred, comes invariably from people who are not fighting'.. George Orwell
'There is not in nature, a thing that makes man so deformed, so beastly, as doth intemperate anger.'.. Alan Bleasdale
'A common mistake people make when trying to design something is underestimating the ingenuity of fools'.. Douglas Adams
'Understand that sexuality is as wide as the sea. Understand that your morality is not law'.. Derek Jarman
'Those who don't believe in magic will never find it'.. Roald Dahl
'It does not do to leave a live dragon out of your calculations, if you live near him'.. J R R Tolkien
'Every absurdity has a champion to defend it.'.. Oliver Goldsmith
'The nation that secures control of the air will ultimately control the world.'.. Alexander Graham Bell
'Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will make me go in a corner and cry by myself for hours.'.. Eric Idle
'Opportunity makes a thief.'.. Sir Francis Bacon
'In trouble to be troubled, Is to have your trouble doubled.'.. Daniel Defoe
'I would die for my country but I could never let my country die for me'.. Neil Kinnock
'What Youth deemed crystal, Age finds out was dew.'.. Robert Browning
'To truly laugh, you must be able to take your pain, and play with it!'.. Charlie Chaplin
'Be thine own palace, or the world's thy jail.'.. John Donne
'A lover without indiscretion is no lover at all.'.. Thomas Hardy
'Prudence is a rich, ugly, old maid courted by incapacity.'.. William Blake
'The best research for playing a drunk is being a British actor for 20 years'.. Michael Caine
'The worst moment for the atheist is when he is really thankful and has nobody to thank.'.. Dante G Rossetti
'The poetry of the earth is never dead.'.. John Keats
'All slang is metaphor, and all metaphor is poetry.'.. GK Chesterton
'Civilisation is the distance man has put between himself and his excreta'.. Brian Aldiss
'A fanatic is a man who consciously over compensates a secret doubt.'.. Aldous Huxley
'Successful investing is anticipating the anticipations of others.'.. John Maynard Keynes
'Subdue your appetites, my dears, and you've conquered human nature.'.. Charles Dickens
'For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbors and laugh at them in our turn?'.. Jane Austen
'Anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job.'.. Douglas Adams
'If I played Hamlet, they`d call it a horror film'.. Peter Cushing