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Famous British Quotes
'Ours is an excessively conscious age. We know so much, we feel so little.'.. D H Lawrence
'Hope is a good breakfast, but it is a bad supper.'.. Sir Francis Bacon
'Things which do not require effort of some sort are seldom worth having'.. Ivor Novello
'I don't believe one grows older. I think that what happens early on in life is that at a certain age one stands still and stagnates.'.. T S Eliot
'The difference between England and the USA is that when we have a world eries we invite other countries to participate'.. John Cleese
'I wonder what fool it was that first invented kissing.'.. Jonathan Swift
'Golf is so popular simply because it is the best game in the world at which to be bad.'.. A A Milne
'Progress is not an illusion, it happens, but it is slow and invariably disappointing'.. George Orwell
'In the old days men had the rack. Now they have the Press'.. Oscar Wilde
'To be blind is not miserable; not to be able to bear blindness, that is miserable'.. John Milton
'Death is just life's next big adventure.'.. J K Rowling
'Five minutes on even the nicest mountain is awfully long'.. W H Auden
'Never make a defense or an apology until you are accused.'.. Charles I
'Public opinion is a compound of folly, weakness, prejudice, wrong feeling, right feeling, obstinacy, and newspaper paragraphs'.. Robert Peel
'Full, saturated colours have an emotional significance I want to avoid.'.. Lucien Freud
'If you give up drink and sex, you don't live longer. It just seems longer'.. Clement Freud
'Language is not only the vehicle of thought, it is a great and efficient instrument in thinking'.. Humphry Davy
'The fact of the matter is that most actors are shy people.'.. Roger Moore
'I found longer races boring. I found the mile just perfect.'.. Roger Bannister
'I'd the upbringing a nun would envy. Until I was fifteen I was more familiar with Africa than my own body'.. Joe Orton
'Age is a very high price to pay for maturity.'.. Sir Tom Stoppard
'Fill your paper with the breathings of your heart.'.. William Wordsworth
'I had a dream that I was awake and I woke up to find myself asleep.'.. Stan Laurel
'An idea, like a ghost, must be spoken to a little before it will explain itself.'.. Charles Dickens
'A woman is as young as her knees.'.. Mary Quant
'TV is as injurious to the soul as fast food is to the body'.. Quentin Crisp
'I have seen great intolerance shown in support of tolerance.'.. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
'I'm a classic example of all humorists - only funny when I'm working'.. Peter Sellers
'Nature, to be commanded, must be obeyed.'.. Sir Francis Bacon
'Outside every fat man there was an even fatter man trying to close in.'.. Sir Kingsley Amis