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Famous British Quotes
'Poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese'.. GK Chesterton
'I have a fantasy where Ted Turner is elected president but refuses because he doesn't want to give up power.'.. Arthur C Clarke
'He who praises everybody, praises nobody.'.. Samuel Johnson
'For success, attitude is equally as important as ability.'.. Walter Scott
'Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.'.. Oscar Wilde
'I have terrible hearing trouble. I have unwittingly helped to invent and refine a type of music that makes its principal proponents deaf.'.. Pete Townshend
'It's not the voting that's democracy; it's the counting.'.. Sir Tom Stoppard
'A few honest men are better than numbers.'.. Oliver Cromwell
'I would like to take you seriously, but to do so would be an affront to your intelligence'.. George Bernard Shaw
'Charm, in most men and nearly all women, is a decoration.'.. E M Forster
'The real character of a man is found out by his amusements.'.. Joshua Reynolds
'No bird soars too high if he soars with his own wings.'.. William Blake
'When you reach the top, that's when the climb begins.'.. Michael Caine
'Always live in the ugliest house on the street - then you don't have to look at it.'.. David Hockney
'Almost all crime is due to the repressed desire for aesthetic expression.'.. Evelyn Waugh
'I can only go one way. I've not got a reverse gear.'.. Tony Blair
'The light, that lies In woman's eyes, Has been my heart's undoing.'.. Thomas More
'Having a great intellect is no path to being happy.'.. Stephen Fry
'The highest possible stage in moral culture is when we recognize that we ought to control our thoughts.'.. Charles Darwin
'Cast is everything.'.. Ridley Scott
'Time is everything; five minutes make the difference between victory and defeat'.. Horatio Nelson
'Science must have originated in the feeling that something was wrong.'.. Thomas Carlyle
'In me the tiger sniffs the rose.'.. Siegfried Sassoon
'An agent is a person who is sore because an actor gets 90% of what they make.'.. Elton John
'Paradise Lost is a book that, once put down, is very hard to pick up again.'.. Samuel Johnson
'Well may your heart believe the truths I tell; 'Tis virtue makes the bliss, where'er we dwell.'.. Wilkie Collins
'The politician who never made a mistake never made a decision.'.. John Major
'Silence is the most perfect expression of scorn.'.. George Bernard Shaw
'Royalty is the gold teeth in a mouth full of decay'.. John Osborne
'For most of history, Anonymous was a woman.'.. Virginia Woolf