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Famous British Quotes
'I'm always looking for meaningful one-night stands'.. Dudley Moore
'A good thing never ends.'.. Mick Jagger
'The nation that secures control of the air will ultimately control the world.'.. Alexander Graham Bell
'Probably the battle of Waterloo was won on the playing-fields of Eton, but the opening battles of all subsequent wars have been lost there'.. George Orwell
'Science is the great antidote to the poison of enthusiasm and superstition.'.. Adam Smith
'I love not man the less, but Nature more.'.. Lord Byron
'The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age, which mean never losing your enthusiasm.'.. Aldous Huxley
'Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.'.. Samuel Johnson
'If I had not some strength of will I would make a first class drunkard.'.. Ernest Shackleton
'Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it.'.. George Bernard Shaw
'I thought coq au vin was love in a lorry'.. Victoria Wood
'Elegance is inferior to virtue.'.. Mary Shelley
'To know all is not to forgive all. It is to despise everybody'.. Quentin Crisp
'There is a condition worse than blindness, and that is, seeing something that isn't there.'.. Thomas Hardy
'My reputation grows with every failure.'.. George Bernard Shaw
'War is evil, but it is often the lesser evil.'.. George Orwell
'It is a cliche that most cliches are true, but then like most cliches, that cliche is untrue'.. Stephen Fry
'Nature, to be commanded, must be obeyed.'.. Sir Francis Bacon
'Every man over forty is a scoundrel.'.. George Bernard Shaw
'It's a poor sort of memory that only works backwards.'.. Lewis Carroll
'That we must all die, we always knew; I wish I had remembered it sooner.'.. Samuel Johnson
'Cowards die many times before their deaths; the valiant never taste of death but once'.. William Shakespeare
'Do not tell secrets to those whose faith and silence you have not already tested.'.. Elizabeth I
'A woman that does a mans work is just a lazy cow'.. Jo Brand
'Critics! Those cut-throat bandits in the paths of fame.'.. Robert Burns
'The trouble with young writers is that they are all in their sixties.'.. Somerset Maugham
'Artists are like everybody else.'.. Damien Hirst
'A man that hoards up riches and enjoys them not, is like an ass that carries gold and eats thistles'.. Richard Burton
'I always arrive late at the office, but I make up for it by leaving early.'.. Charles Lamb
'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