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Famous British Quotes
'Nothing in life is so exhilarating as to be shot at without result.'.. Winston Churchill
'I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires, rather than in attempting to satisfy them.'.. John Stuart Mill
'Be just before you are generous.'.. Richard Sheridan
'Immortality is really desirable, I guess. In terms of images, anyway.'.. Damien Hirst
'Death is the only pure, beautiful conclusion of a great passion.'.. D H Lawrence
'Be yourself is about the worst advice you can give to some people.'.. J B Priestley
'Sometimes the most positive thing you can be in a boring society is absolutely negative'.. John Lydon (Johnny Rotten)
'Integrity is so perishable in the summer months of success.'.. Vanessa Redgrave
'After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.'.. Aldous Huxley
'Sometimes when you're drunk you can see better.'.. Damien Hirst
'The trouble with words is that you never know whose mouths they have been in.'.. Dennis Potter
'To get a job where the only thing you have to do in your career is to make people laugh-well, it's the best job in the world'.. Ronnie Barker
'I am not against hasty marriages where a mutual flame is fanned by an adequate income'.. Wilkie Collins
'It is better to have a lion at the head of an army of sheep, than a sheep at the head of an army of lions'.. Daniel Defoe
'The most romantic, if not the most beautiful, place in Scotland'.. Walter Scott
'I think that making love is the best form of exercise.'.. Cary Grant
'Age is a very high price to pay for maturity.'.. Sir Tom Stoppard
'The thing with Hi-Tech is that you always end up using scissors'.. David Hockney
'Farce is tragedy played at a thousand revolutions per minute.'.. Sir John Mortimer
'I attribute my success to this - I never gave or took any excuse.'.. Florence Nightingale
'Now that I know what I want, I don't have to hold on to it quite so much.'.. Lucien Freud
'All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.'.. Winston Churchill
'Circumstances are beyond human control, but our conduct is in our own power.'.. Benjamin Disraeli
'I have never had problems with drugs. I have had problems with the police....'.. Keith Richards
'All the people like us are we, and everyone else is They.'.. Rudyard Kipling
'It is only in the world of objects that we have time and space and selves.'.. T S Eliot
'A little sincerity is a dangerous thing, and a great deal of it is absolutely fatal'.. Oscar Wilde
'I dont hold with abroad and think foreigners speak English when our backs are turned'.. Quentin Crisp
'Gentleman do not throw wine at ladies. They pour it over them'.. Auberon Waugh
'A happy family is but an earlier heaven.'.. George Bernard Shaw