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Famous British Quotes
'I think we have all experienced passion that is not in any sense reasonable.'.. Stephen Fry
'A painter must think of everything he sees as being there entirely for his own use and pleasure.'.. Lucien Freud
'I'd sooner be called a successful crook than a destitute monarch.'.. Charlie Chaplin
'All men have an instinct for conflict: at least, all healthy men.'.. Hilaire Belloc
'It is very good advice to believe only what an artist does, rather than what he says about his work.'.. David Hockney
'Justice and judgment lie often a world apart.'.. Emmeline Pankhurst
'Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point.'.. C S Lewis
'Live as long as you may, the first twenty years are the longest half of your life.'.. Robert Southey
'Man is an animal that makes bargains: no other animal does this - no dog exchanges bones with another.'.. Adam Smith
'I have changed. I no longer keep coal in the bath. I keep it in the bidet'.. John Prescott
'There might be 1 finger on the button, but there will be 15 fingers on the safety catch'.. Harold Macmillan
'Mountains are the beginning and the end of all natural scenery.'.. John Ruskin
'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
'All slang is metaphor, and all metaphor is poetry.'.. GK Chesterton
'Some folk want their luck buttered'.. Thomas Hardy
'Love is not love that alters when it alteration finds.'.. William Shakespeare
'Heresy is another word for freedom of thought.'.. Graham Greene
'Tact is the art of making a point without making an enemy.'.. Isaac Newton
'The surest way to fail is not to determine to succeed.'.. Richard Sheridan
'I am not young enough to know everything.'.. Oscar Wilde
'To his dog, every man is Napoleon; hence the constant popularity of dogs.'.. Aldous Huxley
'Could we teach taste or genius by rules, they would be no longer taste and genius'.. Joshua Reynolds
'Art can never exist without naked beauty displayed.'.. William Blake
'The best car safety device is a rear-view mirror with a cop in it'.. Dudley Moore
'Experience is the child of thought, and thought is the child of action.'.. Benjamin Disraeli
'Let us not forget that we can never go farther than we can persuade at least half of the people to go'.. Hugh Gaitskell
'Pleasure and action make the hours seem short.'.. William Shakespeare
'To an ordinary human being, love means nothing if it does not mean loving some people more than others'.. George Orwell
'Keep your faith in God, but keep your powder dry.'.. Oliver Cromwell
'It's not whether you win or lose, it's how many people remember you when you die.'.. Jonathan Ross