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Famous British Quotes
'Artists aren't really people. And I'm actually 40 per cent papier mache'.. Morrissey
'A critic is a man who knows the way but can't drive the car.'.. Kenneth Tynan
'It is a dangerous thing to have instant access to your emotions.'.. Dennis Potter
'Don't be afraid to take a big step if one is indicated. You can't cross a chasm in two small jumps.'.. David Lloyd George
'Man's love is of man's life a part; it is a woman's whole existence. In her first passion, a woman loves her lover, in all the others all she loves is love.'.. Lord Byron
'A man that hoards up riches and enjoys them not, is like an ass that carries gold and eats thistles'.. Richard Burton
'The first condition of understanding a foreign country is to smell it.'.. Rudyard Kipling
'However I dress it up, I was a spy and I am not proud of it'.. Christine Keeler
'Dorchester - A very agreeable town to live in'.. Daniel Defoe
'Disease generally begins that equality which death completes.'.. Samuel Johnson
'All money is a matter of belief.'.. Adam Smith
'Humour is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.'.. Virginia Woolf
'Autumn wins you best by this its mute appeal to sympathy for its decay.'.. Robert Browning
'Pity those who nature abuses; never those who abuse nature.'.. Richard Sheridan
'Expectation is the root of all heartache.'.. William Shakespeare
'He who would search for pearls must dive below.'.. John Dryden
'The highest reward for a person's toil is not what they get for it, but what they become by it'.. John Ruskin
'It is better to have a lion at the head of an army of sheep, than a sheep at the head of an army of lions'.. Daniel Defoe
'The performances you have in your head are always much better than the performances on stage'.. Maggie Smith
'Nothing is pleasant that is not spiced with variety.'.. Sir Francis Bacon
'A dream you dream alone is only a dream. A dream you dream together is reality'.. John Lennon
'A people always ends by resembling its shadow.'.. Rudyard Kipling
'Advertising is legalized lying.'.. H G Wells
'The only exercise I take is walking behind the coffins of friends who have taken too much exercise'.. Peter O’Toole
'Being deaf and partially blind means I don't really watch TV. I wouldn't know what to do with a remote control.'.. Eric Sykes
'We wander for distraction, but we travel for fulfillment.'.. Hilaire Belloc
'Life has a practice of living you, if you don't live it.'.. Philip Larkin
'A fanatic is a man who consciously over compensates a secret doubt.'.. Aldous Huxley
'I think to be oversensitive about cliches is like being oversensitive about table manners.'.. Evelyn Waugh
'How you think when you lose determines how long it will be until you win'.. GK Chesterton