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Famous British Quotes
'I've sometimes thought of marrying - and then I've thought again.'.. Noel Coward
'The politician who never made a mistake never made a decision.'.. John Major
'But love's a malady without a cure.'.. John Dryden
'I've never intended to be controversial but it's very easy to be controversial in pop music because nobody ever is'.. Morrissey
'Most people do not pray; they only beg.'.. George Bernard Shaw
'Unintelligent people always look for a scapegoat.'.. Ernest Bevin
'Ending a sentence with a preposition is something up with which I will not put.'.. Winston Churchill
'Bexhill on Sea is a peck on the cheek: Hastings is a lolloping tongue down the throat'.. Jo Brand
'When you choose your friends, don't be short-changed by choosing personality over character.'.. Somerset Maugham
'A man's true character comes out when he's drunk.'.. Charlie Chaplin
'The fickleness of the women I love is only equalled by the infernal constancy of the women who love me'.. George Bernard Shaw
'Life turned out much better than I thought. I knew after a little while that I could act.'.. Peter O’Toole
'History, a distillation of rumour.'.. Thomas Carlyle
'The greatest scholars are not usually the wisest people.'.. Geoffrey Chaucer
'Consciousness is an end in itself. We torture ourselves getting somewhere, and when we get there it is nowhere, for there is nowhere to get to.'.. D H Lawrence
'People to whom nothing has ever happened cannot understand the unimportance of events.'.. T S Eliot
'You cannot teach old dogs new tricks.'.. Joseph Chamberlain
'It is widely held that too much wine will dull a man's desire. Indeed it will in a dull man'.. John Osborne
'The first and simplest emotion which we discover in the human mind, is curiosity.'.. Edmund Burke
'The world is a republic of mediocrities, and always was.'.. Thomas Carlyle
'We're against beaurocracy and anything ending in a Y'.. John Lydon (Johnny Rotten)
'During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act'.. George Orwell
'Those who don't know history are destined to repeat it.'.. Edmund Burke
'Spoon feeding in the long run teaches us nothing but the shape of the spoon.'.. E M Forster
'Virtue is the fount whence honour springs.'.. Christopher Marlowe
'The worlds second worst crime is boredom. The first is being a bore'.. Cecil Beaton
'Superstition is the religion of feeble minds.'.. Edmund Burke
'Never keep up with the Jones's. Drag them down to your level instead'.. Quentin Crisp
'Of all the objects of hatred, a woman once loved is the most hateful.'.. Max Beerbohm
'I don't believe that the public knows what it wants; this is the conclusion that I have drawn from my career.'.. Charlie Chaplin