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Famous British Quotes
'The future is purchased by the present.'.. Samuel Johnson
'The best part of a holiday is not so much to be resting yourself as to see all the other fellows busy working'.. Kenneth Grahame
'Nothing is too wonderful to be true if it be consistent with the laws of nature'.. Michael Faraday
'Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown.'.. William Shakespeare
'To myself I am only a child playing on the beach, while vast oceans of truth lie undiscovered before me'.. Isaac Newton
'I used to look at these pictures of trumpeters pointing their instrument to the ceiling. Stunning pictures, but if you play the trumpet and point it upwards, all the spit comes back into your mouth!'.. Humphrey Lyttleton
'There is only one class in the community that thinks more about money than the rich, and that is the poor'.. Oscar Wilde
'Art is born of humiliation.'.. W H Auden
'I did not fully understand the dread term 'terminal illness' until I saw Heathrow for myself.'.. Dennis Potter
'Like all great travellers, I have seen more than I remember, and remember more than I have seen.'.. Benjamin Disraeli
'There can be no liberty unless there is economic liberty.'.. Margaret Thatcher
'If someone's dumb enough to offer me a million dollars to make a picture, I'm certainly not dumb enough to turn it down.'.. Elizabeth Taylor
'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
'He was one of those men who possess almost every gift, except the gift of the power to use them.'.. Charles Kingsley
'Heresy is another word for freedom of thought.'.. Graham Greene
'All heiresses are beautiful.'.. John Dryden
'All the war-propaganda, all the screaming and lies and hatred, comes invariably from people who are not fighting'.. George Orwell
'If you don't believe in God, all you have to believe in is decency.'.. Harold Macmillan
'All men are liable to error; and most men are, in many points, by passion or interest, under temptation to it.'.. John Locke
'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
'Life is like a very short visit to a toyshop between birth and death.'.. Desmond Morris
'Nothing puzzles me more than the time and space; and yet nothing troubles me less.'.. Charles Lamb
'Before you can do something you must first be something.'.. John Gielgud
'I don't mind how much my Ministers talk, so long as they do what I say'.. Margaret Thatcher
'Oh the nerves, the nerves; the mysteries of this machine called man! Oh the little that unhinges it, poor creatures that we are!'.. Charles Dickens
'Ambition is not what man does... but what man would do.'.. Robert Browning
'That's all drugs and alcohol do, they cut off your emotions in the end.'.. Ringo Starr
'It is easy to answer the ultimate questions - it saves you bothering with the immediate ones.'.. John Osborne
'May you live every day of your life.'.. Jonathan Swift
'Come forth into the light of things, let nature be your teacher.'.. William Wordsworth