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Famous British Quotes
'Paradise Lost is a book that, once put down, is very hard to pick up again.'.. Samuel Johnson
'My boyfriend had a sex manual but he was dyslexic. I was lying there and he was looking for my vinegar'.. Victoria Wood
'I will show you fear in a handful of dust.'.. T S Eliot
'Make all you can, save all you can, give all you can.'.. John Wesley
'Rock and roll doesn't necessarily mean a band. It doesn't mean a singer, and it doesn't mean a lyric, really. It's that question of trying to be immortal'.. Malcolm McLaren
'Taste every fruit of every tree in the garden at least once. It is an insult to creation not to experience it fully. Temperance is wickedness'.. Stephen Fry
'Now that I know what I want, I don't have to hold on to it quite so much.'.. Lucien Freud
'It is not how much one makes but to what purpose one spends.'.. John Ruskin
'Have you ever noticed? Anybody going slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than you is a maniac'.. Ronnie Corbett
'Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable'.. Sir Francis Bacon
'You know, I go to the theatre to be entertained. I don’t want to see plays about rape, sodomy and drug addiction...I can get all that at home'.. Peter Cook
'I have a great mind to believe in Christianity for the mere pleasure of fancying I may be damned'.. Lord Byron
'A clear and innocent conscience fears nothing.'.. Elizabeth I
'You want to be foretold the weather? it is bad enough when it comes without having the misery of knowing about it beforehand'.. Jerome K Jerome
'Of all the objects of hatred, a woman once loved is the most hateful.'.. Max Beerbohm
'To all, to each, a fair good-night, and pleasing dreams, and slumbers light.'.. Walter Scott
''Tis love that makes the world go round'.. Charles Dickens
'Errors are not in the art but in the artificers.'.. Isaac Newton
'He was about as useful as a one-legged man at an arse kicking contest.'.. Rowan Atkinson
'It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.'.. Oscar Wilde
'Only mediocrity can be trusted to be always at its best.'.. Max Beerbohm
'A work of art is the unique result of a unique temperament.'.. Oscar Wilde
'No one can look back on his schooldays and say with truth that they were altogether unhappy'.. George Orwell
'I don't know why I should have to learn Algebra... I'm never likely to go there.'.. Billy Connolly
'The palace is not safe when the cottage is not happy.'.. Benjamin Disraeli
'Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.'.. George Bernard Shaw
'Go as far as you can see; when you get there you'll be able to see farther.'.. Thomas Carlyle
'Life is made of ever so many partings welded together.'.. Charles Dickens
'The world is like a grand staircase, some are going up and some are going down.'.. Samuel Johnson
'It is better to live rich than to die rich.'.. Samuel Johnson