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Famous British Quotes
'No bird soars too high if he soars with his own wings.'.. William Blake
'Andrew Marr looks like Martin Clunes with a little of the air let out of him'.. Jo Brand
'If at first you don’t succeed, failure may be your style'.. Quentin Crisp
'Discretion is the perfection of reason, and a guide to us in all the duties of life.'.. Walter Scott
'Without frugality none can be rich, and with it very few would be poor.'.. Samuel Johnson
'Love is love's reward.'.. John Dryden
'When thinking about companions gone, we feel ourselves doubly alone.'.. Walter Scott
'In my end is my beginning.'.. Mary, Queen of Scots
'Euphemisms are unpleasant truths wearing diplomatic cologne'.. Quentin Crisp
'It took me years to understand that words are often as important as experience, because words make experience last'.. William Morris
'It's not whether you win or lose, it's how many people remember you when you die.'.. Jonathan Ross
'My neighbour asked if he could use my lawnmower and I told him of course he could, so long as he didn't take it out of my garden.'.. Eric Morecambe
'A painter must think of everything he sees as being there entirely for his own use and pleasure.'.. Lucien Freud
'To me there has never been a higher source of earthly honor or distinction than that connected with advances in science'.. Isaac Newton
'General principles... are to the facts as the root and sap of a tree are to its leaves'.. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
'If my critics saw me walking over the Thames they would say it was because I couldn't swim'.. Margaret Thatcher
'Fortitude is the guard and support of the other virtues.'.. John Locke
'I got nasty habits; I take tea at three.'.. Mick Jagger
'The printing press is the greatest weapon in the armoury of the modern commander'.. T E Lawrence
'Chester pleases my fancy more than any other place I ever saw'.. James Boswell
'Well, my wife and I were married in a toilet - it was a marriage of convenience!'.. Tommy Cooper
'An American monkey, after getting drunk on brandy, would never touch it again, and thus is much wiser than most men.'.. Charles Darwin
'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 was gifted with the sly, sharp instinct for self-preservation that passes for wisdom among the rich.'.. Evelyn Waugh
'Anything worth doing is worth overdoing.'.. Mick Jagger
'One of the most important days of my life was when I learned to ride a bicycle'.. Michael Palin
'Regrets are the natural property of grey hairs.'.. Charles Dickens
'It's all right letting yourself go, as long as you can get yourself back.'.. Mick Jagger
'Love is only a dirty trick played on us to achieve continuation of the species.'.. Somerset Maugham
'A person is a fool to become a writer. His only compensation is absolute freedom'.. Roald Dahl