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Famous British Quotes
'Music is the best means we have of digesting time.'.. W H Auden
'A day without laughter is a day wasted.'.. Charlie Chaplin
'All our discontents about what we want appeared to spring from the want of thankfulness for what we have.'.. Daniel Defoe
'Beaumaris is second to none'.. George Borrow
'Music and woman I cannot but give way to, whatever my business is.'.. Samuel Pepys
'You only require two things in life: your sanity and your wife.'.. Tony Blair
'The most precious things in speech are pauses.'.. Ralph Richardson
'My family pride is something inconceivable. I can't help it. I was born sneering.'.. W S Gilbert
'If you tell the truth, you have infinite power supporting you; but if not, you have infinite power against you'.. Charles George Gordon
'Writers should be read, but neither seen nor heard.'.. Daphne du Maurier
'The greatest good you can do for another is not just to share your riches but to reveal to him his own.'.. Benjamin Disraeli
'He that is taught only by himself has a fool for a master'.. Ben Jonson
'Of all the objects of hatred, a woman once loved is the most hateful.'.. Max Beerbohm
'Old men are dangerous: it doesn't matter to them what is going to happen to the world'.. George Bernard Shaw
'Paganism is infectious, more infectious than diphtheria or piety.'.. E M Forster
'Militant feminists, I take my hat off to them. They don't like that'.. Milton Jones
'Common sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom'.. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
'Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.'.. Bertrand Russell
'Mountains are the beginning and the end of all natural scenery.'.. John Ruskin
'Liberal: a power worshipper without power.'.. George Orwell
'I'm not as thrilled with myself as I used to be.'.. Oliver Reed
'A day wasted on others is not wasted on one's self.'.. Charles Dickens
'The truth is really an ambition which is beyond us.'.. Peter Ustinov
'Women want love to be a novel, men a short story.'.. Daphne du Maurier
'To all, to each, a fair good-night, and pleasing dreams, and slumbers light.'.. Walter Scott
'I have a memory like an elephant. In fact, elephants often consult me.'.. Noel Coward
'The creative habit is like a drug. The particular obsession changes, but the excitement, the thrill of your creation lasts'.. Henry Moore
'I think people should be free to engage in any sexual practices they choose; they should draw the line at goats though.'.. Elton John
'The quickest way of ending a war is to lose it.'.. George Orwell
'The aim of a joke is not to degrade the human being, but to remind him that he is already degraded'.. George Orwell