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Famous British Quotes
'Justice and judgment lie often a world apart.'.. Emmeline Pankhurst
'My family pride is something inconceivable. I can't help it. I was born sneering.'.. W S Gilbert
'My boat can sleep 6 people that know each other well or 1 prude'.. Peter Ustinov
'The thing about imagination is that by the very act of putting it down, there must be some truth in one's own imagination.'.. Dennis Potter
'I read the newspapers avidly. It is my one form of continuous fiction.'.. Aneurin Bevan
'Like most of those who study history, he (Napoleon III) learned from the mistakes of the past how to make new ones.'.. A J P Taylor
'And the White Album is important to me for different reasons. One - I had left the band on the White Album.'.. Ringo Starr
'In politics, what begins in fear usually ends in failure.'.. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
'Dancing is a perpendicular expression of a horizontal desire.'.. George Bernard Shaw
'Pain is no evil, unless it conquers us.'.. Charles Kingsley
'Proud people breed sad sorrows for themselves.'.. Emily Bronte
'There's nothing glorious in dying. Anyone can do it'.. John Lydon (Johnny Rotten)
'The shelf life of the modern hardback writer is somewhere between the milk and the yogurt'.. Sir John Mortimer
'If you think squash is a competitive activity, try flower arranging.'.. Alan Bennett
'It is my settled opinion that no one is attracted to a political career in the first place unless he is socially or emotionally crippled'.. Auberon Waugh
'The true secret of happiness lies in taking a genuine interest in all the details of daily life.'.. William Morris
'In wartime, truth is so precious that she should always be attended by a bodyguard of lies.'.. Winston Churchill
'I do not want a husband who honours me as a queen, if he does not love me as a woman.'.. Elizabeth I
'For my part, I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move.'.. Robert Louis Stevenson
'Life is what happens while you are busy making other plans.'.. John Lennon
'We know what happens to people who stay in the middle of the road. They get run down.'.. Aneurin Bevan
'The longer you look at an object, the more abstract it becomes, and, ironically, the more real.'.. Lucien Freud
'New opinions are always suspected, and usually opposed, without anyother reason but because they are not already common.'.. John Locke
'Looking back at all the people I have insulted, I am mildly surprised that I am still allowed to exist.'.. Auberon Waugh
'As far as I am concerned the paint is the person. I want it to work for me just as flesh does.'.. Lucien Freud
'Fill your paper with the breathings of your heart.'.. William Wordsworth
'Subtlety may deceive you; integrity never will.'.. Oliver Cromwell
'Accursed be he that first invented war.'.. Christopher Marlowe
'It is a mistake to look too far ahead. Only one link of the chain of destiny can be handled at a time'.. Winston Churchill
'Soldiers are citizens of death's grey land, drawing no dividend from time's tomorrows'.. Siegfried Sassoon