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Famous British Quotes
'A remarkable thing about Shakespeare is that he is really very good in spite of all the people who say he is very good'.. Robert Graves
'As no man is born an artist, so no man is born an angler.'.. Izaak Walton
'Better three hours too soon than a minute too late.'.. William Shakespeare
'Music is the best means we have of digesting time.'.. W H Auden
'It only takes a room of Americans for the English and Australians to realise how much we have in common.'.. Stephen Fry
'Nothing is pleasant that is not spiced with variety.'.. Sir Francis Bacon
'So little done, so much to do.'.. Cecil Rhodes
'A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject.'.. Winston Churchill
'English consists entirely of foreign words pronounced wrongly'.. Bob Hope
'A politician is a person with whose politics you don't agree; if you agree with him he's a statesman.'.. David Lloyd George
'The snowdrop and primrose our woodlands adorn, and violets bathe in the wet o' the morn.'.. Robert Burns
'The individual is not accountable to society for his actions in so far as these concern the interests of no person but himself.'.. John Stuart Mill
'Mountains are the beginning and the end of all natural scenery.'.. John Ruskin
'Money doesn't mind if we say it's evil, it goes from strength to strength. It's a fiction, an addiction, and a tacit conspiracy'.. Martin Amis
'I'll go through life either first class or third, but never in second.'.. Noel Coward
'Life is far too important a thing ever to talk seriously about.'.. Oscar Wilde
'To make your children capable of honesty is the beginning of education.'.. John Ruskin
'If Galileo had said in verse that the world moved, the inquisition might have let him alone'.. Thomas Hardy
'The fact that logic cannot satisfy us awakens an almost insatiable hunger for the irrational.'.. A N Wilson
'I like to drink to suit my location.'.. Tom Jones
'I became a great runner because if you are a kid in Leeds called Sebastian you have to be'.. Sebastian Coe
'Men of power have no time to read; yet the men who do not read are unfit for power'.. Michael Foot
'There is no sin but ignorance.'.. Christopher Marlowe
'Politics is the art of making the inevitable seem planned'.. Quentin Crisp
'Those who don't believe in magic will never find it'.. Roald Dahl
'The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good'.. Samuel Johnson
'My family pride is something inconceivable. I can't help it. I was born sneering.'.. W S Gilbert
'The greatest tragedy in mankind's entire history may be the hijacking of morality by religion'.. Arthur C Clarke
'I sometimes think that God in creating man somewhat overestimated his ability.'.. Oscar Wilde
'A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul.'.. George Bernard Shaw