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Famous British Quotes
'History will see advertising as one of the real evil things of our time. It is stimulating people constantly to want things, want this, want that.'.. Malcolm Muggeridge
'Come forth into the light of things, let nature be your teacher.'.. William Wordsworth
'Understand that sexuality is as wide as the sea. Understand that your morality is not law'.. Derek Jarman
'I think to be oversensitive about cliches is like being oversensitive about table manners.'.. Evelyn Waugh
'Love works a different way in different minds, the fool it enlightens and the wise it blinds'.. John Dryden
'There was no respect for youth when I was young, and now that I am old, there is no respect for age, I missed it coming and going'.. J B Priestley
'Great is the hand that holds dominion over man by a scribbled name.'.. Dylan Thomas
'I don't think Henry Kissinger would have lasted 48 hours at Old Trafford.'.. Tommy Docherty
'I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires, rather than in attempting to satisfy them.'.. John Stuart Mill
'America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between'.. Oscar Wilde
'As no man is born an artist, so no man is born an angler.'.. Izaak Walton
'Life is ours to be spent, not to be saved.'.. D H Lawrence
'Every dog must have his day.'.. Jonathan Swift
'Discretion is the perfection of reason, and a guide to us in all the duties of life.'.. Walter Scott
'Everyone who wants to do good to the human race always ends in universal bullying'.. Aldous Huxley
'The wisest prophets make sure of the event first.'.. Horace Walpole
'To get a job where the only thing you have to do in your career is to make people laugh-well, it's the best job in the world'.. Ronnie Barker
'You can give without loving, but you can never love without giving.'.. Robert Louis Stevenson
'There is nothing constant in this world but inconsistency.'.. Jonathan Swift
'Nothing, like something, happens anywhere.'.. Philip Larkin
'We are not interested in the possibilities of defeat. They do not exist'.. Queen Victoria
'I had a dream that I was awake and I woke up to find myself asleep.'.. Stan Laurel
'Rigid, the skeleton of habit alone upholds the human frame.'.. Virginia Woolf
'One forgets words as one forgets names. One's vocabulary needs constant fertilizing or it will die.'.. Evelyn Waugh
'I have measured out my life with coffee spoons.'.. T S Eliot
'Happy the people whose annals are vacant.'.. Thomas Carlyle
'The media. It sounds like a convention of spiritualists.'.. Sir Tom Stoppard
'I owe nothing to Women's Lib.'.. Margaret Thatcher
'I do not believe that any man fears to be dead, but only the stroke of death'.. Sir Francis Bacon
'People seldom improve when they have no other model but themselves to copy'.. Oliver Goldsmith