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Famous British Quotes
'It is the mark of a truly intelligent person to be moved by statistics'.. George Bernard Shaw
'Looking back at all the people I have insulted, I am mildly surprised that I am still allowed to exist.'.. Auberon Waugh
'In politics, what begins in fear usually ends in failure.'.. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
'Desperate affairs require desperate measures.'.. Horatio Nelson
'There is not a more repulsive spectacle than on old man who will not forsake the world, which has already forsaken him.'.. T S Eliot
'Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.'.. T S Eliot
'Filth and old age, I'm sure you will agree, are powerful wardens upon chastity.'.. Geoffrey Chaucer
'Anybody who's been married to a man for forty odd years knows he's all talk'.. Michael Parkinson
'Feelings are like chemicals, the more you analyze them the worse they smell.'.. Charles Kingsley
'In our time political speech and writing are largely the defense of the indefensible'.. George Orwell
'Nothing is so contagious as enthusiasm.'.. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
'The British tourist is always happy abroad as long as the natives are waiters'.. Robert Morley
'I do detest everything which is not perfectly mutual.'.. Lord Byron
'Royalty is the gold teeth in a mouth full of decay'.. John Osborne
'The true definition of a snob is one who craves for what separates men rather than for what unites them'.. John Buchan
'Absences are a good influence in love and keep it bright and delicate.'.. Robert Louis Stevenson
'Dorchester - A very agreeable town to live in'.. Daniel Defoe
'Sometimes we stare so long at a door that is closing that we see too late the one that is open.'.. Alexander Graham Bell
'I hate the idea of causes, and if I had to choose between betraying my country and betraying my friend, I hope I should have the guts to betray my country'.. E M Forster
'Now if the harvest is over, And the world cold, Give me the bonus of laughter, As I lose hold'.. John Betjeman
'If you're going to make rubbish, be the best rubbish in it.'.. Richard Burton
'I like work; it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours.'.. Jerome K Jerome
'Evil is unspectacular and always human, and shares our bed and eats at our own table.'.. W H Auden
'Instead of this absurd division into sexes they ought to class people as static and dynamic.'.. Evelyn Waugh
'He that gives good advice, builds with one hand; he that gives good counsel and example, builds with both'.. Sir Francis Bacon
'Islington is about as far as you can get from London without needing yellow-fever jabs'.. A A Gill
'Pictures deface walls more often than they decorate them.'.. William Wordsworth
'Its easy to distract fat people. A piece of cake'.. Chris Addison
'I am not, I repeat, NOT a lesbian - even though I'd like to be one when I grow up.'.. Dawn French
'Do noble things, not dream them all day long.'.. Charles Kingsley