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Famous British Quotes
'Keep violence in the mind where it belongs.'.. Brian Aldiss
'All I need to make a comedy is a park, a policeman and a pretty girl.'.. Charlie Chaplin
'Bexhill on Sea is a peck on the cheek: Hastings is a lolloping tongue down the throat'.. Jo Brand
'Boredom is the legitimate kingdom of the philanthropic.'.. Virginia Woolf
'There's no such thing as old age, there is only sorrow'.. Fay Weldon
'Every harlot was a virgin once.'.. William Blake
'So little done, so much to do.'.. Cecil Rhodes
'I am told that I talk in shorthand and then smudge it.'.. J R R Tolkien
'I am not, I repeat, NOT a lesbian - even though I'd like to be one when I grow up.'.. Dawn French
'Fortunate indeed the child who first sees the light of day in that romantic town'.. Andrew Carnegie
'Patriots always talk of dying for their country but never of killing for their country'.. Bertrand Russell
'Bores can be divided into two classes; those who have their own particular subject, and those who do not need a subject.'.. A A Milne
'Breed is stronger than pasture.'.. George Eliot
'Nothing is so fatal to religion as indifference.'.. Edmund Burke
'We cast a shadow on something wherever we stand.'.. E M Forster
'You fall out of your Mothers womb, crawl across open country under fire and crawl in to your grave'.. Quentin Crisp
'There is no sin but ignorance.'.. Christopher Marlowe
'You know the worst thing about oral sex? The view.'.. Maureen Lipman
'To cure the British disease with socialism was like trying to cure leukaemia with leeches'.. Margaret Thatcher
'There are some things only intellectuals are crazy enough to believe'.. George Orwell
'It wasn't until late in life that I discovered how easy it is to say "I don't know."'.. Somerset Maugham
'One might well say that mankind is divisible into two great classes: hosts and guests'.. Max Beerbohm
'Sometimes the most positive thing you can be in a boring society is absolutely negative'.. John Lydon (Johnny Rotten)
'Five minutes on even the nicest mountain is awfully long'.. W H Auden
'Every dog must have his day.'.. Jonathan Swift
'Education: the inculcation of the incomprehensible into the indifferent by the incompetent'.. John Maynard Keynes
'The purpose of getting power is to be able to give it away'.. Aneurin Bevan
'The thing about imagination is that by the very act of putting it down, there must be some truth in one's own imagination.'.. Dennis Potter
'When words are scarce they are seldom spent in vain.'.. William Shakespeare
'The worst moment for the atheist is when he is really thankful and has nobody to thank.'.. Dante G Rossetti