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Famous British Quotes
'An actor is something less than a man, while an actress is something more than a woman.'.. Richard Burton
'Literature is strewn with the wreckage of men who have minded beyond reason the opinions of others'.. Virginia Woolf
'Love is staying up all night with a sick child - or a healthy adult.'.. David Frost
'When a man is wrapped up in himself, he makes a pretty small package'.. John Ruskin
'In human relationships, kindness and lies are worth a thousand truths'.. Graham Greene
'A good gulp of hot whiskey at bedtime - it's not very scientific but it helps'.. Alexander Fleming
'I am playing all the right notes, but not necessarily in the right order.'.. Eric Morecambe
'When I make a joke I always laugh quickly so there is no doubt about it'.. Somerset Maugham
'I would rather trust a woman's instinct than a man's reason.'.. Stanley Baldwin
'Woman begins by resisting a man's advances and ends by blocking his retreat.'.. Oscar Wilde
'A man may devote himself to death and destruction to save a nation; but no nation will devote itself to death and destruction to save mankind.'.. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
'Sooner or later everyone sits down to a banquet of consequences.'.. Robert Louis Stevenson
'You may be as vicious about me as you please. You will only do me justice.'.. Richard Burton
'Media is just a word that has come to mean bad journalism.'.. Graham Greene
'The worst enemy of life, freedom and the common decencies is total anarchy; their second worst enemy is total efficiency.'.. Aldous Huxley
'An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered'.. GK Chesterton
'All autobiography is self-indulgent.'.. Daphne du Maurier
'We always have been, we are, and I hope that we always will be detested in France'.. Duke of Wellington
'Don't talk to me about a man's being able to talk sense; everyone can talk sense. Can he talk nonsense?'.. William Pitt (The Younger)
'Biography lends to death a new terror'.. Oscar Wilde
'I became a great runner because if you are a kid in Leeds called Sebastian you have to be'.. Sebastian Coe
'Fashion is what you adopt when you dont know who you are'.. Quentin Crisp
'It is most unwise for people in love to marry.'.. George Bernard Shaw
'I think that making love is the best form of exercise.'.. Cary Grant
'Nothing is so contagious as enthusiasm.'.. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
'I wanted to change the world. But I have found that the only thing one can be sure of changing is oneself.'.. Aldous Huxley
'Words easy to be understood do often hit the mark; when high and learned ones do only pierce the air'.. John Bunyan
'Progress everywhere today does seem to come so very heavily disguised as Chaos'.. Joyce Grenfell
'I love a scary movie. It makes your toes curl and it's not you going through it.'.. Sir Anthony Hopkins
'A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul.'.. George Bernard Shaw