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Famous British Quotes
'All sins tend to be addictive, and the terminal point of addiction is damnation.'.. W H Auden
'As usual, there is a great woman behind every idiot.'.. John Lennon
'I wonder if anyone will ever know the emptiness of my life. Personal Diary -- Last entry "Oh what's the point?"'.. Kenneth Williams
'Democracy means government by discussion, but it is only effective if you can stop people talking'.. Clement Attlee
'An aim in life is the only fortune worth finding.'.. Robert Louis Stevenson
'When childhood dies, its corpses are called adults.'.. Brian Aldiss
'Great things are done when men and mountains meet.'.. William Blake
'The difference between England and the USA is that when we have a world eries we invite other countries to participate'.. John Cleese
'Nothing that is morally wrong can be politically right.'.. W E Gladstone
'If your morals make you dreary, depend on it, they are wrong.'.. Robert Louis Stevenson
'He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches.'.. George Bernard Shaw
'On the whole, human beings want to be good, but not too good, and not quite all the time'.. George Orwell
'Breed is stronger than pasture.'.. George Eliot
'In every parting there is an image of death.'.. George Eliot
'It is only the dull who like practical jokes'.. Oscar Wilde
'An agent is a person who is sore because an actor gets 90% of what they make.'.. Elton John
'All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.'.. Winston Churchill
'I became a great runner because if you are a kid in Leeds called Sebastian you have to be'.. Sebastian Coe
'You know, somebody actually complimented me on my driving today. They left a little note on the windscreen, it said 'Parking Fine.''.. Tommy Cooper
'Be just before you are generous.'.. Richard Sheridan
'But love's a malady without a cure.'.. John Dryden
'If you want to eat well in England, eat three breakfasts.'.. Somerset Maugham
'Farce is tragedy played at a thousand revolutions per minute.'.. Sir John Mortimer
'Any relic of the dead is precious, if they were valued living.'.. Emily Bronte
'I don't need you to remind me of my age. I have a bladder to do that for me.'.. Stephen Fry
'Few have been taught to any purpose who have not been their own teachers.'.. Joshua Reynolds
'You had better have one King than five hundred'.. Charles II
'Women are for bastmen, beer is for bowlers. God help the all-rounders!'.. Fred Trueman
'All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others'.. George Orwell
'It is in men as in soils where sometimes there is a vein of gold which the owner knows not'.. Jonathan Swift