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Famous British Quotes
'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
'Subtlety may deceive you; integrity never will.'.. Oliver Cromwell
'Better to go than sit around being a terrible old bore.'.. Auberon Waugh
'There are no such things as Flowers there are only gladdened Leaves.'.. John Ruskin
'This is the first age that's ever paid much attention to the future, which is a little ironic since we may not have one'.. Arthur C Clarke
'It's not the having, it's the getting.'.. Elizabeth Taylor
'Listen to many, speak to a few.'.. William Shakespeare
'Women want love to be a novel, men a short story.'.. Daphne du Maurier
'From quiet homes and first beginning, out to the undiscovered ends, there's nothing worth the wear of winning, but laughter and the love of friends'.. Hilaire Belloc
'How little do they see what is, who frame their hasty judgments upon that which seems'.. Robert Southey
'Invention, it must be humbly admitted, does not consist in creating out of voice, but out of chaos'.. Mary Shelley
'I love not man the less, but Nature more.'.. Lord Byron
'Absence - that common cure of love.'.. Lord Byron
'In modern business it is not the crook who is to be feared most, it is the honest man who doesn't know what he is doing'.. William Wordsworth
'Between friends differences in taste or opinion are irritating in direct proportion to their triviality.'.. W H Auden
'I wonder what fool it was that first invented kissing.'.. Jonathan Swift
'Biologically speaking, if something bites you it's more likely to be female.'.. Desmond Morris
'Never forget that only dead fish swim with the stream.'.. Malcolm Muggeridge
'I don’t understand bus lanes. Why do poor people have to get to places quicker than I do?'.. Jeremy Clarkson
'Most people perform well in a crisis - when the spotlight is on them; it's on the Sunday afternoons of this life, when no-one is looking, that the spirit falters.'.. Alan Bennett
'The only reason I made a commercial for American Express was to pay for my American Express bill'.. Peter Ustinov
'All autobiography is self-indulgent.'.. Daphne du Maurier
'May you live every day of your life.'.. Jonathan Swift
'Our main business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand'.. Thomas Carlyle
'If everyone demanded peace instead of another television set, then there'd be peace.'.. John Lennon
'For success, attitude is equally as important as ability.'.. Walter Scott
'Taste is the only morality. Tell me what you like and I'll tell you what you are'.. John Ruskin
'All I can think of the Middle Ages is that everything must have chafed terribly'.. A A Gill
'All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.'.. Winston Churchill
'Ale, man, ale's the stuff to drink for fellows whom it hurts to think.'.. A E Housman