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Famous British Quotes
'Infamy! Infamy! They've all got it in for me!'.. Kenneth Williams
'Sex is a momentary itch, love never lets you go.'.. Sir Kingsley Amis
'If there was nothing wrong in the world there wouldn't be anything for us to do.'.. George Bernard Shaw
'Diligence is the mother of good fortune.'.. Benjamin Disraeli
'I never had lunch in Brighton without wanting to take a woman to bed in the afternoon'.. John Osborne
'My goal is simple. It is a complete understanding of the universe, why it is as it is and why it exists at all.'.. Stephen Hawking
'It is not so much that the world has got so much worse but that news coverage has got so much better'.. GK Chesterton
'To see a world in a grain of sand and heaven in a wild flower Hold infinity in the palms of your hand and eternity in an hour'.. William Blake
'No legacy is so rich as honesty.'.. William Shakespeare
'One is certain of nothing but the truth of one's own emotions.'.. E M Forster
'Nothing is so contagious as enthusiasm.'.. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
'What really matters is what you do with what you have.'.. H G Wells
'Man's love is of man's life a part; it is a woman's whole existence. In her first passion, a woman loves her lover, in all the others all she loves is love.'.. Lord Byron
'England is not all the world.'.. Mary, Queen of Scots
'America: It's like Britain, only with buttons.'.. Ringo Starr
'To forget oneself is to be happy.'.. Robert Louis Stevenson
'What is wonderful about great literature is that it transforms the man who reads it towards the condition of the man who wrote.'.. E M Forster
'To most men experience is like the stern lights of a ship, which illuminate only the track it has passed.'.. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
'Curiosity is one of the most permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous intellect'.. Samuel Johnson
'Talk of the devil, and his horns appear.'.. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
'You don't have to be the Dalai Lama to tell people that life's about change'.. John Cleese
'Unless we remember we cannot understand.'.. E M Forster
'A dirty joke is a sort of mental rebellion.'.. George Orwell
'Believe there is a great power silently working all things for good, behave yourself and never mind the rest.'.. Beatrix Potter
'No advance in wealth, no softening of manners, no reform or revolution has ever brought human equality a millimeter nearer'.. George Orwell
'I'm every bourgeois nightmare - a Cockney with intelligence and a million dollars'.. Michael Caine
'The one phrase imperative to know in any foreign language is My friend will pay'.. Alan Whicker
'There is a condition worse than blindness, and that is, seeing something that isn't there.'.. Thomas Hardy
'A cricketer's life is a life of splendid freedom, healthy effort, endless variety, and delightful good fellowship'.. W G Grace
'You'll find that empty vessels make the most sound'.. John Lydon (Johnny Rotten)