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Famous British Quotes
'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
'Cast is everything.'.. Ridley Scott
'Don't be afraid to take a big step if one is indicated. You can't cross a chasm in two small jumps.'.. David Lloyd George
'Anything worth doing is worth overdoing.'.. Mick Jagger
'The sort of poetry I seek resides in objects man can't touch.'.. E M Forster
'People to whom nothing has ever happened cannot understand the unimportance of events.'.. T S Eliot
'Anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job.'.. Douglas Adams
'Reading without reflecting is like eating without digesting.'.. Edmund Burke
'Only in Britain could it be thought a defect to be too clever by half. The probability is that too many people are too stupid by three-quarters.'.. John Major
'America: It's like Britain, only with buttons.'.. Ringo Starr
'Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it.'.. George Bernard Shaw
'The higher the building the lower the morals.'.. Noel Coward
'Eating words has never given me indigestion.'.. Winston Churchill
'Britain is the grit in the European oyster'.. John Major
'Reflect upon your present blessings of which every man has many - not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some.'.. Charles Dickens
'At night, when the curtains are drawn and the fire flickers, my books attain a collective dignity.'.. E M Forster
'Rolf Harris is a difficult man to hate but that shouldnt stop us trying'.. A A Gill
'Who, being loved, is poor?'.. Oscar Wilde
'Flattery corrupts both the receiver and the giver.'.. Edmund Burke
'Before anything else, preparation is the key to success.'.. Alexander Graham Bell
'History is a cyclic poem written by time upon the memories of man'.. Percy Bysshe Shelley
'Henley is the Venice of the South'.. Boris Johnson
'Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.'.. George Bernard Shaw
'It is not so much that the world has got so much worse but that news coverage has got so much better'.. GK Chesterton
'Nothing made by brute force lasts.'.. Robert Louis Stevenson
'Never keep up with the Jones's. Drag them down to your level instead'.. Quentin Crisp
'A man can be happy with any woman as long as he does not love her'.. Oscar Wilde
'A mother is a mother still, The holiest thing alive.'.. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
'Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.'.. T S Eliot
'Never hold discussions with the monkey when the organ grinder is in the room.'.. Winston Churchill