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Famous British Quotes
'A poet is a professional maker of verbal objects.'.. W H Auden
'Jogging is for people who aren't intelligent enough to watch breakfast TV'.. Victoria Wood
'The hard part is getting to the top of Page 1'.. Sir Tom Stoppard
'What's done can't be undone.'.. William Shakespeare
'The thing about imagination is that by the very act of putting it down, there must be some truth in one's own imagination.'.. Dennis Potter
'Difficulties are just things to overcome'.. Ernest Shackleton
'All men have an instinct for conflict: at least, all healthy men.'.. Hilaire Belloc
'Instead of this absurd division into sexes they ought to class people as static and dynamic.'.. Evelyn Waugh
'Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons'.. Bertrand Russell
'A clear and innocent conscience fears nothing.'.. Elizabeth I
'The pain of parting is nothing to the joy of meeting again.'.. Charles Dickens
'TV is as injurious to the soul as fast food is to the body'.. Quentin Crisp
'Man is nature's sole mistake.'.. W S Gilbert
'Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant'.. Robert Louis Stevenson
'The kind of people who always go on about whether a thing is in good taste invariably have very bad taste'.. Joe Orton
'My only regret in life is that I did not drink more champagne'.. John Maynard Keynes
'It's not so much about what you ask as what you don't ask.'.. Michael Parkinson
'Some of my best leading men have been dogs and horses.'.. Elizabeth Taylor
'A common mistake people make when trying to design something is underestimating the ingenuity of fools'.. Douglas Adams
'I need no dictionary of quotations to remind me that the eyes are the windows of the soul'.. Max Beerbohm
'Nothing ever becomes real till it is experienced.'.. John Keats
'If you aren't in over your head, how do you know how tall you are?'.. T S Eliot
'I have the body of an eighteen year old. I keep it in the fridge.'.. Spike Milligan
'Civilisation is the distance man has put between himself and his excreta'.. Brian Aldiss
''Tis love that makes the world go round'.. Charles Dickens
'I love not man the less, but Nature more.'.. Lord Byron
'Our greatest glory consists not in never failing, but in rising every time we fall'.. Oliver Goldsmith
'War is evil, but it is often the lesser evil.'.. George Orwell
'I can calculate the motion of heavenly bodies, but not the madness of people'.. Isaac Newton
'You may be as vicious about me as you please. You will only do me justice.'.. Richard Burton