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Famous British Quotes
'For most of history, Anonymous was a woman.'.. Virginia Woolf
'The Pistols were like my work of art. They were my canvas'.. Malcolm McLaren
'He that will enjoy the brightness of sunshine, must quit the coolness of the shade'.. Samuel Johnson
'There is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact.'.. Arthur Conan Doyle
'Older women are best, because they always think they may be doing it for the last time.'.. Ian Fleming
'The most happy marriage I can picture or imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman'.. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
'Gossip is what no one claims to like, but everybody enjoys.'.. Joseph Conrad
'A man who trusts nobody is apt to be the kind of man nobody trusts'.. Harold Macmillan
'Life is obstinate and clings closest where it is most hated.'.. Mary Shelley
'When I am dead, I hope it may be said: His sins were scarlet, but his books were read'.. Hilaire Belloc
'Fond memory brings the light of other days around me.'.. Thomas More
'We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.'.. Winston Churchill
'Until you understand a writer's ignorance, presume yourself ignorant of his understanding'.. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
'I don't pretend to understand the Universe - it's a great deal bigger than I am.'.. Thomas Carlyle
'I think fidelity is a good idea - now that I cant walk'.. Sir John Mortimer
'I see music as one language. If one musical form eats its own tail, it dies. So it needs to be a mongrel, it needs to be hybridised.'.. Sting
'The only possible way there would be an uprising in this country would be if they banned caravanning and car boot sales'.. Victoria Wood
'Unintelligent people always look for a scapegoat.'.. Ernest Bevin
'I am prepared for the worst, but hope for the best.'.. Benjamin Disraeli
'You have no idea what a poor opinion I have of myself and how little I deserve it'.. W S Gilbert
'Christianity will go. It will vanish and shrink. I needn't argue with that; I'm right and I will be proved right.'.. John Lennon
'To sentence a man of true genius, to the drudgery of a school is to put a racehorse on a treadmill'.. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
'Nothing, like something, happens anywhere.'.. Philip Larkin
'I have nothing to declare except my genuis.'.. Oscar Wilde
'I've searched all the parks in all the cities and found no statues of committees'.. GK Chesterton
'It's not wise to violate rules until you know how to observe them.'.. T S Eliot
'Sooner or later everyone sits down to a banquet of consequences.'.. Robert Louis Stevenson
'Public opinion is a compound of folly, weakness, prejudice, wrong feeling, right feeling, obstinacy, and newspaper paragraphs'.. Robert Peel
'The habit of religion is oppressive, an easy way out of thought.'.. Peter Ustinov
'To betray, you must first belong.'.. Kim Philby