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Famous British Quotes
'I dont hold with abroad and think foreigners speak English when our backs are turned'.. Quentin Crisp
'On the road from the City of Skepticism, I had to pass through the Valley of Ambiguity.'.. Adam Smith
'People who can't be witty exert themselves to be devout and affectionate.'.. George Eliot
'Breed is stronger than pasture.'.. George Eliot
'Wonders will never cease.'.. David Garrick
'A minute's success pays the failure of years.'.. Robert Browning
'All a poet can do today is warn.'.. Wilfred Owen
'If you want to see my monument, look around you'.. Christopher Wren
'A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty'.. Winston Churchill
'Blessed is he who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed.'.. Jonathan Swift
'Who, being loved, is poor?'.. Oscar Wilde
'Impropriety is the soul of wit.'.. Somerset Maugham
'I used to be indecisive but now I am not quite sure.'.. Tommy Cooper
'A prudent question is one-half of wisdom.'.. Sir Francis Bacon
'Talk that does not end in any kind of action is better suppressed altogether.'.. Thomas Carlyle
'Why buy a book when you can join a library'.. Ricky Gervais
'The finest eloquence is that which gets things done.'.. David Lloyd George
'I don't know half of you half as well as I should like; and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve.'.. J R R Tolkien
'Great is the hand that holds dominion over man by a scribbled name.'.. Dylan Thomas
'Commerce changes the fate and genius of nations.'.. Thomas Gray
'Nothing shows up the difference between the things said or read, so much as the daily experience of it'.. Vita Sackville-West
'I think that making love is the best form of exercise.'.. Cary Grant
'A consistent soul believes in destiny, a capricious one in chance.'.. Benjamin Disraeli
'The main facts in human life are five: birth, food, sleep, love and death'.. E M Forster
'Confidence is a plant of slow growth in an aged heart.'.. William Pitt (The Younger)
'Nature never did betray the heart that loved her.'.. William Wordsworth
'No man is an island, entire of itself'.. John Donne
'A professor is someone who talks in someone else's sleep.'.. W H Auden
'If there was nothing wrong in the world there wouldn't be anything for us to do.'.. George Bernard Shaw
'I wonder if anyone will ever know the emptiness of my life. Personal Diary -- Last entry "Oh what's the point?"'.. Kenneth Williams