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Famous British Quotes
'A man's true character comes out when he's drunk.'.. Charlie Chaplin
'Both read the Bible day and night, but thou read black where I read white'.. William Blake
'Sometimes the most positive thing you can be in a boring society is absolutely negative'.. John Lydon (Johnny Rotten)
'Parliament must not be told a direct untruth, but it's quite possible to allow them to mislead themselves'.. Norman Tebbit
'When a thing's done, it's done, and if it's not done right, do it differently next time.'.. Arthur Ransome
'Charm, in most men and nearly all women, is a decoration.'.. E M Forster
'Animals are my friends... and I don't eat my friends.'.. George Bernard Shaw
'This diamond has so many carats it's almost a turnip.'.. Richard Burton
'My dreams were all my own; I accounted for them to nobody; they were my refuge when annoyed - my dearest pleasure when free'.. Mary Shelley
'Take away love and our earth is a tomb.'.. Robert Browning
'If I could I would always work in silence and obscurity, and let my efforts be known by their results.'.. Emily Bronte
'The job of the artist is always to deepen the mystery.'.. Francis Bacon
'Good sense about trivialities is better than nonsense about things that matter'.. Max Beerbohm
'A people always ends by resembling its shadow.'.. Rudyard Kipling
'We forge the chains we wear in life.'.. Charles Dickens
'As love without esteem is capricious and volatile; esteem without love is languid and cold.'.. Jonathan Swift
'I read the newspapers avidly. It is my one form of continuous fiction.'.. Aneurin Bevan
'Culture is the process by which a person becomes all that they were created capable of being'.. Thomas Carlyle
'Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.'.. T S Eliot
'Parting is such sweet sorrow.'.. William Shakespeare
'You had better have one King than five hundred'.. Charles II
'All a poet can do today is warn.'.. Wilfred Owen
'The more I study religions the more I am convinced that man never worshipped anything but himself.'.. Richard Burton
'The land of my fathers. My fathers can have it.'.. Dylan Thomas
'Marriage is one long conversation, chequered by disputes.'.. Robert Louis Stevenson
'Motherhood: All love begins and ends there.'.. Robert Browning
'How inappropriate to call this planet Earth when it is quite clearly Ocean.'.. Arthur C Clarke
'There is no education like adversity.'.. Benjamin Disraeli
'I am half British and half American. My passport has an eagle with a tea bag in its mouth'.. Bob Hope
'I am not aware that any community has a right to force another to be civilized.'.. John Stuart Mill