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Famous British Quotes
'Never hold discussions with the monkey when the organ grinder is in the room.'.. Winston Churchill
'Autumn wins you best by this its mute appeal to sympathy for its decay.'.. Robert Browning
'Life has a practice of living you, if you don't live it.'.. Philip Larkin
'I am in that temper that if I were under water I would scarcely kick to come to the top'.. John Keats
'You know the worst thing about oral sex? The view.'.. Maureen Lipman
'The golden rule is that there are no golden rules.'.. George Bernard Shaw
'History is written by the victors.'.. Winston Churchill
''May my last breath be drawn from a pipe and exhaled in a pun''.. Charles Lamb
'Time you enjoy wasting, was not wasted.'.. John Lennon
'You don't have to be the Dalai Lama to tell people that life's about change'.. John Cleese
'What loneliness is more lonely than distrust?'.. George Eliot
'Art is the symbol of the two noblest human efforts: to construct and to refrain from destruction.'.. Evelyn Waugh
'The truth is rarely pure and never simple.'.. Oscar Wilde
'Men will pay large sums to whores for telling them they are not bores.'.. W H Auden
'Love-making is an art which must be studied.'.. Ivor Novello
'There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.'.. Benjamin Disraeli
'One cannot really be a Catholic and grown up.'.. 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
'Biologically speaking, if something bites you it's more likely to be female.'.. Desmond Morris
'Reading without reflecting is like eating without digesting.'.. Edmund Burke
'Exhilaration is that feeling you get just after a great idea hits you, and just before you realize what`s wrong with it.'.. Rex Harrison
'Three minutes thought would suffice to sort this out but thought is irksome and three minutes is a long time'.. A E Housman
'Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go.'.. Oscar Wilde
'I am not conceited. It is just that I have a fondness for the good things in life and I happen to be one of them'.. Kenneth Williams
'Asia is not going to be civilized after the methods of the West. There is too much Asia and she is too old.'.. Rudyard Kipling
'Deep-versed in books and shallow in himself.'.. John Milton
'The highest possible stage in moral culture is when we recognize that we ought to control our thoughts.'.. Charles Darwin
'My body has certainly wandered a good deal, but I have an uneasy suspicion that my mind has not wandered enough.'.. Noel Coward
'What happens in the heart simply happens.'.. Ted Hughes
'He who has health, has hope; and he who has hope, has everything.'.. Thomas Carlyle