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Famous British Quotes
'Her virtue was that she said what she thought, her vice that what she thought didn't amount to much.'.. Peter Ustinov
'During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act'.. George Orwell
'Democracy means government by discussion, but it is only effective if you can stop people talking'.. Clement Attlee
'The news is always bad, even when it sounds good'.. Aldous Huxley
'Evil is unspectacular and always human, and shares our bed and eats at our own table.'.. W H Auden
'Pleasure and action make the hours seem short.'.. William Shakespeare
'Nonsense and beauty have close connections.'.. E M Forster
'Love-making is an art which must be studied.'.. Ivor Novello
'Integrity is so perishable in the summer months of success.'.. Vanessa Redgrave
'Sooner or later everyone sits down to a banquet of consequences.'.. Robert Louis Stevenson
'For truth is always strange; stranger than fiction.'.. Lord Byron
'Our greatest glory consists not in never failing, but in rising every time we fall'.. Oliver Goldsmith
'I am determined that my children shall be brought up in their father's religion, if they can find out what it is.'.. Charles Lamb
'Big Brother is watching you.'.. George Orwell
'Very few of us are what we seem'.. Agatha Christie
'We dont know much about the human conscience except that its soluble in alcohol'.. Sir John Mortimer
'If you fell down yesterday, stand up today.'.. H G Wells
'As usual, there is a great woman behind every idiot.'.. John Lennon
'A prudent question is one-half of wisdom.'.. Sir Francis Bacon
'Adventure is not outside man; it is within.'.. George Eliot
'There is no such thing as darkness; only a failure to see.'.. Malcolm Muggeridge
'You don't have to be the Dalai Lama to tell people that life's about change'.. John Cleese
'Contrariwise, if it was so, it might be; and if it were so, it would be; but as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic.'.. Lewis Carroll
'The light, that lies In woman's eyes, Has been my heart's undoing.'.. Thomas More
'Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers.'.. Alfred Lord Tennyson
'I like work; it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours.'.. Jerome K Jerome
'Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.'.. George Bernard Shaw
'Health is the state about which medicine has nothing to say.'.. W H Auden
'A smile abroad is often a scowl at home.'.. Alfred Lord Tennyson
'The only possible way there would be an uprising in this country would be if they banned caravanning and car boot sales'.. Victoria Wood