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Famous British Quotes
'One half of the world cannot understand the other halfs pleasures'.. Jane Austen
'Grey towers of Durham, yet well I loved thy mixed and massive piles'.. Walter Scott
'I read the newspapers avidly. It is my one form of continuous fiction.'.. Aneurin Bevan
'Money can't buy you happiness but it does bring you a more pleasant form of misery.'.. Spike Milligan
'Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal.'.. T S Eliot
'Time is but the shadow of the world upon the background of Eternity.'.. Jerome K Jerome
'All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players'.. William Shakespeare
'You may travel the world over but you will find nowhere more beautiful; It is so restful, so colourful and so unspoilt (Tenby)'.. Augustus John
'Illusion is the first of all pleasures.'.. Oscar Wilde
'All men would be tyrants if they could.'.. Daniel Defoe
'Although prepared for martyrdom, I preferred that it be postponed.'.. Winston Churchill
'In trouble to be troubled, Is to have your trouble doubled.'.. Daniel Defoe
'If God did not intend for us to eat animals, then why did he make them out of meat?'.. John Cleese
'Very few of us are what we seem'.. Agatha Christie
'No man can be an agnostic who has a sense of humour.'.. E M Forster
'Honest people don't hide their deeds.'.. Emily Bronte
'We know what happens to people who stay in the middle of the road. They get run down.'.. Aneurin Bevan
'Conceit is the finest armour a man can wear.'.. Jerome K Jerome
'If you are cast in a different mould to the majority, it is no merit of yours: Nature did it.'.. Charlotte Bronte
'During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act'.. George Orwell
'Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings.'.. Samuel Johnson
'A play should give you something to think about. When I see a play and understand it the first time, then I know it can't be much good.'.. T S Eliot
'A ruffled mind makes a restless pillow.'.. Charlotte Bronte
'There is a wisdom of the head, and a wisdom of the heart.'.. Charles Dickens
'In our time political speech and writing are largely the defense of the indefensible'.. George Orwell
'In love as in sport, the amateur status must be strictly maintained.'.. Robert Graves
'To most men experience is like the stern lights of a ship, which illuminate only the track it has passed.'.. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
'Everyone has his day and some days last longer than others.'.. Winston Churchill
'Critics! Those cut-throat bandits in the paths of fame.'.. Robert Burns
'My favorite sexual fantasy is smearing my body in chocolate and being left alone in a room to eat it'.. Jo Brand