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Famous British Quotes
'The longer you look at an object, the more abstract it becomes, and, ironically, the more real.'.. Lucien Freud
'The pain of parting is nothing to the joy of meeting again.'.. Charles Dickens
'I lost my job as a cricket commentator for saying “I don’t want to bore you with the details”'.. Milton Jones
'Women have no sympathy and my experience of women is almost as large as Europe'.. Florence Nightingale
'A neurosis is a secret that you don't know you are keeping.'.. Kenneth Tynan
'Sooner or later everyone sits down to a banquet of consequences.'.. Robert Louis Stevenson
'How very little can be done under the spirit of fear.'.. Florence Nightingale
'A lover without indiscretion is no lover at all.'.. Thomas Hardy
'Every noble work is at first impossible.'.. Thomas Carlyle
'It is not reasonable that those who gamble with men's lives should not stake their own.'.. H G Wells
'I'm a hero with coward's legs.'.. Spike Milligan
'Work is the curse of the drinking classes.'.. Oscar Wilde
'May not the complaint, that common people are above their station, often take its rise in the fact of uncommon people being below theirs?'.. Charles Dickens
'The habit of religion is oppressive, an easy way out of thought.'.. Peter Ustinov
'Melancholy, indeed, should be diverted by every means but drinking.'.. Samuel Johnson
'The true definition of a snob is one who craves for what separates men rather than for what unites them'.. John Buchan
'A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its autho'.. GK Chesterton
'Go as far as you can see; when you get there you'll be able to see farther.'.. Thomas Carlyle
'I don't pretend to understand the Universe - it's a great deal bigger than I am.'.. Thomas Carlyle
'The fact that logic cannot satisfy us awakens an almost insatiable hunger for the irrational.'.. A N Wilson
'A laugh, to be joyous, must flow from a joyous heart, for without kindness, there can be no true joy'.. Thomas Carlyle
'In my opinion, most of the great men of the past were only there for the beer - the wealth, prestige and grandeur that went with the power.'.. A J P Taylor
'There is a woman at the beginning of all great things.'.. Alan Bleasdale
'I used to be indecisive but now I am not quite sure.'.. Tommy Cooper
'Better a witty fool than a foolish wit.'.. William Shakespeare
'Education: the inculcation of the incomprehensible into the indifferent by the incompetent'.. John Maynard Keynes
'There is not a more repulsive spectacle than on old man who will not forsake the world, which has already forsaken him.'.. T S Eliot
'When a stupid man is doing something he is ashamed of, he always declares that it is his duty.'.. George Bernard Shaw
'I don't believe one grows older. I think that what happens early on in life is that at a certain age one stands still and stagnates.'.. T S Eliot
'God is the perfect poet.'.. Robert Browning