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Famous British Quotes
'I dont speak French, I dont speak English, I am from Yorkshire'.. Geoffrey Boycott
'Deprivation is for me what daffodils were for Wordsworth.'.. Philip Larkin
'Curiosity is one of the most permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous intellect'.. Samuel Johnson
'The most important of my discoveries have been suggested to me by my failures'.. Humphry Davy
'How you think when you lose determines how long it will be until you win'.. GK Chesterton
'I am playing all the right notes, but not necessarily in the right order.'.. Eric Morecambe
'I love a scary movie. It makes your toes curl and it's not you going through it.'.. Sir Anthony Hopkins
'Be not a slave of words.'.. Thomas Carlyle
'No violent extreme endures.'.. Thomas Carlyle
'I'll give you my opinion of the human race in a nutshell... their heart's in the right place, but their head is a thoroughly inefficient organ.'.. Somerset Maugham
'Some people are born to lift heavy weights, some are born to juggle golden balls'.. Max Beerbohm
'To every action there is always opposed an equal reaction.'.. Isaac Newton
'The politician who never made a mistake never made a decision.'.. John Major
'A kitten is in the animal world what a rosebud is in the garden.'.. Robert Southey
'Fear is the mother of foresight.'.. Thomas Hardy
'It's bad taste to be wise all the time, like being at a perpetual funeral.'.. D H Lawrence
'For all my education, accomplishments, and so called 'wisdom'... I can't fathom my own heart'.. Michael Caine
'If you want to see my monument, look around you'.. Christopher Wren
'It is a mistake to look too far ahead. Only one link of the chain of destiny can be handled at a time'.. Winston Churchill
'Music is everybody's possession. It's only publishers who think that people own it.'.. John Lennon
'My opinion is that a poet should express the emotion of all the ages and the thought of his own.'.. Thomas Hardy
'I like the ephemeral thing about theatre, every performance is like a ghost - it's there and then it's gone'.. Maggie Smith
'I hate publicity, and I have contrived to survive to be an old woman without it, except in the homey atmosphere of Agricultural Shows'.. Beatrix Potter
'Happiness is not a possession to be prized, it is a quality of thought, a state of mind.'.. Daphne du Maurier
'Most sets of values would give rise to universes that, although they might be very beautiful, would contain no one able to wonder at that beauty.'.. Stephen Hawking
'Humour is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.'.. Virginia Woolf
'I used to think anyone doing anything weird was weird. Now I know that it is the people that call others weird that are weird'.. Paul McCartney
'Language ought to be the joint creation of poets and manual workers'.. George Orwell
'Presteigne - Neither in England nor Wales, simply in Radnorshire'.. George Borrow
''Tis the last rose of summer Left blooming alone; All her lovely companions Are faded and gone.'.. Thomas More