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Famous British Quotes
'You can lead a horse to water, but a pencil must be led.'.. Stan Laurel
'The more we study the more we discover our ignorance.'.. Percy Bysshe Shelley
'I keep seeing myself in my daughter, and I see my mother in me and in her. Bloody hell.'.. Julie Walters
'All we need to make us really happy is something to be enthusiastic about.'.. Charles Kingsley
'There is a condition worse than blindness, and that is, seeing something that isn't there.'.. Thomas Hardy
'The world is a stage, but the play is badly cast.'.. Oscar Wilde
'You never know what is enough unless you know what is more than enough.'.. William Blake
'It is only in the world of objects that we have time and space and selves.'.. T S Eliot
'The hardest part of sailing round the world? Stepping on dry land'.. Ellen MacArthur
'It's very hard to be a gentleman and a writer.'.. Somerset Maugham
'I can imagine no more comfortable frame of mind than a humorous resignation'.. Somerset Maugham
'I always arrive late at the office, but I make up for it by leaving early.'.. Charles Lamb
'It's easier to replace a dead man than a good picture.'.. George Bernard Shaw
'People always make war when they say they love peace.'.. D H Lawrence
'We are all here on earth to help others; what on earth the others are here for I don't know.'.. W H Auden
'One of the greatest problems of our time is that many are schooled but few are educated'.. Thomas More
'During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act'.. George Orwell
'I work for a Government I despise for ends I think criminal.'.. John Maynard Keynes
'Time is everything; five minutes make the difference between victory and defeat'.. Horatio Nelson
'Society has always seemed to demand a little more from human beings than it will get in practice'.. George Orwell
'It is in men as in soils where sometimes there is a vein of gold which the owner knows not'.. Jonathan Swift
'Spoon feeding in the long run teaches us nothing but the shape of the spoon.'.. E M Forster
'I always knew that if all else failed I could become an actor. And all else failed'.. David Niven
'Alas! they had been friends in youth; but whispering tongues can poison truth.'.. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
'Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together.'.. George Eliot
'The only possible way there would be an uprising in this country would be if they banned caravanning and car boot sales'.. Victoria Wood
'Probably the battle of Waterloo was won on the playing-fields of Eton, but the opening battles of all subsequent wars have been lost there'.. George Orwell
'Deer hunting would be a fine sport if only the deer had guns'.. W S Gilbert
'Nobody ever died of laughter.'.. Max Beerbohm
'It is easy to answer the ultimate questions - it saves you bothering with the immediate ones.'.. John Osborne