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Famous British Quotes
'Death destroys a man, but the idea of death saves him.'.. E M Forster
'All that I desire to point out is the general principle that life imitates art far more than art imitates life'.. Oscar Wilde
'Everything's complicated, even those things that seem flat in their bleakness or sadness'.. Nick Hornby
'When love and skill work together, expect a masterpiece.'.. John Ruskin
'I can't stand innuendo. When I see one in a script I whip it out immediately'.. Kenneth Williams
'I have a memory like an elephant. In fact, elephants often consult me.'.. Noel Coward
'Only a mediocre person is always at his best.'.. Somerset Maugham
'There's nothing as ordinary as to try to be extraodinary'.. Noel Coward
'One of the most important days of my life was when I learned to ride a bicycle'.. Michael Palin
'The past is a great place and I don't want to erase it or to regret it, but I don't want to be its prisoner either'.. Mick Jagger
'If slaughterhouses had glass walls, everyone would be a vegetarian.'.. Paul McCartney
'I think computer viruses should count as life. I think it says something about human nature that the only form of life we have created so far is purely destructive. We've created life in our own image.'.. Stephen Hawking
'It is in men as in soils where sometimes there is a vein of gold which the owner knows not'.. Jonathan Swift
'Love-making is an art which must be studied.'.. Ivor Novello
'The truth that is suppressed by friends is the readiest weapon of the enemy.'.. Robert Louis Stevenson
'Love works a different way in different minds, the fool it enlightens and the wise it blinds'.. John Dryden
'Better the rudest work that tells a story or records a fact, than the richest without meaning'.. John Ruskin
'Media is just a word that has come to mean bad journalism.'.. Graham Greene
'They say an actor is only as good as his parts. Well my parts have done me pretty well'.. Barbara Windsor
'Remember the dignity of your womanhood. Do not appeal, do not beg, do not grovel. Take courage, join hands, stand beside us, fight with us.'.. Christabel Pankhurst
'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
'All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players'.. William Shakespeare
'So little done, so much to do.'.. Cecil Rhodes
'If we open a quarrel between past and present, we shall find that we have lost the future'.. Winston Churchill
'There is a pleasure in being mad which none but madmen know.'.. John Dryden
'Charm, in most men and nearly all women, is a decoration.'.. E M Forster
'You know, I go to the theatre to be entertained. I don’t want to see plays about rape, sodomy and drug addiction...I can get all that at home'.. Peter Cook
'Life is easy to chronicle, but bewildering to practice.'.. E M Forster
'Heresies are experiments in man's unsatisfied search for truth.'.. H G Wells
'The nation that secures control of the air will ultimately control the world.'.. Alexander Graham Bell