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Famous British Quotes
'Disease generally begins that equality which death completes.'.. Samuel Johnson
'If the best man's faults were written on his forehead, he would draw his hat over his eyes.'.. Thomas Gray
'A poet is a professional maker of verbal objects.'.. W H Auden
'I see myself as a roving mosquito, choosing it's target.'.. Kenneth Williams
'Surround yourself with human beings. They are easier to fight for than principles'.. Ian Fleming
'Actually american football is a lot like rugby but why do they keep on having all those committee meetings?'.. Winston Churchill
'The block of granite which was an obstacle in the pathway of the weak, became a stepping-stone in the pathway of the strong.'.. Thomas Carlyle
'Poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese'.. GK Chesterton
'Outside every fat man there was an even fatter man trying to close in.'.. Sir Kingsley Amis
'A wise man should have money in his head, but not in his heart.'.. Jonathan Swift
'There's only room for one bigmouth in my organisation, and that's me.'.. Alan Sugar
'The love of a mother is the veil of a softer light between the heart and the heavenly Father'.. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
'Modesty seldom resides in a breast that is not enriched with nobler virtues.'.. Oliver Goldsmith
'I shouldn't be saying this - high treason, really - but I sometimes wonder if Americans aren't fooled by our accent into detecting brilliance that may not really be there'.. Stephen Fry
'I have changed. I no longer keep coal in the bath. I keep it in the bidet'.. John Prescott
'Our main business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand'.. Thomas Carlyle
'The difference between Socrates and Jesus? The great conscious and the immeasurably great unconscious'.. Thomas Carlyle
'God has two dwellings; one in heaven, and the other in a meek and thankful heart.'.. Izaak Walton
'Credit is a system whereby a person who can not pay gets another person who can not pay to guarantee that he can pay.'.. Charles Dickens
'Art is born of humiliation.'.. W H Auden
'I was court-martialled in my absence, and sentenced to death in my absence, so I said they could shoot me in my absence.'.. Thomas Hardy
'Laziness has become the chief characteristic of journalism, displacing incompetence.'.. Sir Kingsley Amis
'There are some ideas so wrong that only a very intelligent person could believe in them'.. George Orwell
'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
'Life contains but two tragedies. One is not to get your heart's desire; the other is to get it.'.. George Bernard Shaw
'Success - keeping your mind awake and your desire asleep.'.. Walter Scott
'The past is a great place and I don't want to erase it or to regret it, but I don't want to be its prisoner either'.. Mick Jagger
'The longer you look at an object, the more abstract it becomes, and, ironically, the more real.'.. Lucien Freud
'Cynicism is humour in ill health.'.. H G Wells
'Some people are born to lift heavy weights, some are born to juggle golden balls'.. Max Beerbohm