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Famous British Quotes
'Nothing shows up the difference between the things said or read, so much as the daily experience of it'.. Vita Sackville-West
'Each generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it'.. George Orwell
'Broadly speaking, the short words are the best, and the old words best of all.'.. Winston Churchill
'You can preach a better sermon with your life than with your lips.'.. Oliver Goldsmith
'He that gives good advice, builds with one hand; he that gives good counsel and example, builds with both'.. Sir Francis Bacon
'A toddling little girl is a centre of common feeling which makes the most dissimilar people understand each other.'.. George Eliot
'I am a lover of truth, a worshipper of freedom, a celebrant at the altar of language and purity and tolerance.'.. Stephen Fry
'I'm a hero with coward's legs.'.. Spike Milligan
'I love argument, I love debate. I don't expect anyone just to sit there and agree with me, that's not their job'.. Margaret Thatcher
'Love is love's reward.'.. John Dryden
'If you have men who will only come if they know there is a good road, I don't want them. I want men who will come if there is no road at all.'.. David Livingstone
'I never saw an ugly thing in my life: for let the form of an object be what it may, - light, shade, and perspective will always make it beautiful'.. John Constable
'As no man is born an artist, so no man is born an angler.'.. Izaak Walton
'It only takes a room of Americans for the English and Australians to realise how much we have in common.'.. Stephen Fry
'In love as in sport, the amateur status must be strictly maintained.'.. Robert Graves
'War would end if the dead could return.'.. Stanley Baldwin
'In me the tiger sniffs the rose.'.. Siegfried Sassoon
'You shall judge a man by his foes as well as by his friends.'.. Joseph Conrad
'He travels best that knows when to return.'.. Thomas More
'No one gossips about other people's secret virtues.'.. Bertrand Russell
'Economic advance is not the same thing as human progress'.. John Clapham
'A man never tells you anything until you contradict him.'.. George Bernard Shaw
'Life contains but two tragedies. One is not to get your heart's desire; the other is to get it.'.. George Bernard Shaw
'You can get an Englishman to do anything simply by whispering in his ear "I know your guilty secret"'.. P G Wodehouse
'I've always said if you want to outwit an Englishman touch him when he doesn't want to be touched'.. Julian Barnes
'Biologically speaking, if something bites you it's more likely to be female.'.. Desmond Morris
'The most romantic, if not the most beautiful, place in Scotland'.. Walter Scott
'A healthy attitude is contagious but don't wait to catch it from others. Be a carrier'.. Sir Tom Stoppard
'The snowdrop and primrose our woodlands adorn, and violets bathe in the wet o' the morn.'.. Robert Burns
'Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all'.. Alfred Lord Tennyson