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Famous British Quotes
'Talk of the devil, and his horns appear.'.. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
'When you read and understand a poem, comprehending its rich and formal meanings, then you master chaos a little.'.. Stephen Spender
'In the old days men had the rack. Now they have the Press'.. Oscar Wilde
'Her virtue was that she said what she thought, her vice that what she thought didn't amount to much.'.. Peter Ustinov
'Laughter would be bereaved if snobbery died.'.. Peter Ustinov
'No battle is worth fighting except the last one.'.. Enoch Powell
'Comedy, we may say, is society protecting itself - with a smile.'.. J B Priestley
'It's all right letting yourself go, as long as you can get yourself back.'.. Mick Jagger
'I may be drunk, Miss, but in the morning I will be sober and you will still be ugly.'.. Winston Churchill
'I desire no future that will break the ties with the past.'.. George Eliot
'A diplomat these days in nothing, but a head waiter who is allowed to sit down occasionally.'.. Peter Ustinov
'There were many times my pants were so thin I could sit on a dime and tell if it was heads or tails.'.. Jonathan Swift
'Art can never exist without naked beauty displayed.'.. William Blake
'Make all you can, save all you can, give all you can.'.. John Wesley
'Whenever people talk to me about the weather I always feel certain that they mean something else'.. Oscar Wilde
'One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes a revolution in order to establish a dictatorship'.. George Orwell
'We are stripped bare by the curse of plenty.'.. Winston Churchill
'An author who speaks about their own books is almost as bad as a mother who speaks about her own children.'.. Benjamin Disraeli
'The cruelest lies are often told in silence.'.. Robert Louis Stevenson
'Death is no different whined at than withstood.'.. Philip Larkin
'Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely been detected.'.. Oscar Wilde
'God is the perfect poet.'.. Robert Browning
'The news is always bad, even when it sounds good'.. Aldous Huxley
'Their's not to make reply, Their's not to reason why, Their's but to do and die'.. Alfred Lord Tennyson
'Fond memory brings the light of other days around me.'.. Thomas More
'Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.'.. Samuel Johnson
'It's the one thing I actively don't like: just being recognized'.. Ricky Gervais
'The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none.'.. Thomas Carlyle
'The news is always bad, even when it sounds good'.. Aldous Huxley
'Put three Englishmen on a desert island and within an hour they will have invented a class system'.. Alan Ayckbourn