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Famous British Quotes
'Advice is like snow - the softer it falls, the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper in sinks into the mind.'.. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
'Taste is the only morality. Tell me what you like and I'll tell you what you are'.. John Ruskin
'Diplomacy, is the art of letting somebody else have your way.'.. David Frost
'Marriage is one long conversation, chequered by disputes.'.. Robert Louis Stevenson
'It was fantastic to work in Cornwall partly because my family live there so I was able to do lots of visiting and eat lots of cake.'.. Dawn French
'If you've got a big mouth and you're controversial, you're going to get attention.'.. Simon Cowell
'Who, being loved, is poor?'.. Oscar Wilde
'The toilets at a local police station have been stolen. Police say they have nothing to go on'.. Ronnie Barker
'To every action there is always opposed an equal reaction.'.. Isaac Newton
'Love is not love that alters when it alteration finds.'.. William Shakespeare
'We dont know much about the human conscience except that its soluble in alcohol'.. Sir John Mortimer
'A man may devote himself to death and destruction to save a nation; but no nation will devote itself to death and destruction to save mankind.'.. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
'If we have to have Tories, good luck to her. She is the best man among them'.. Barbara Castle
'Parents are the bones on which children cut their teeth.'.. Peter Ustinov
'I do not believe that friends are necessarily the people you like best, they are merely the people who got there first'.. Peter Ustinov
'The only reason I made a commercial for American Express was to pay for my American Express bill'.. Peter Ustinov
'Farce is tragedy played at a thousand revolutions per minute.'.. Sir John Mortimer
'Fathers should be neither seen nor heard. That is the only proper basis for family life'.. Oscar Wilde
'Love-making is an art which must be studied.'.. Ivor Novello
'Sometimes the first duty of intelligent men is the restatement of the obvious'.. George Orwell
'It is justice, not charity, that is wanting in the world.'.. Mary Shelley
'Absences are a good influence in love and keep it bright and delicate.'.. Robert Louis Stevenson
'Thousands have lived without love, not one without water.'.. W H Auden
'This is the first age that's ever paid much attention to the future, which is a little ironic since we may not have one'.. Arthur C Clarke
'For all right judgment of any man or things it is useful, nay, essential, to see his good qualities before pronouncing on his bad.'.. Thomas Carlyle
'That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons of history.'.. Aldous Huxley
'I hate publicity, and I have contrived to survive to be an old woman without it, except in the homey atmosphere of Agricultural Shows'.. Beatrix Potter
'Contrariwise, if it was so, it might be; and if it were so, it would be; but as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic.'.. Lewis Carroll
'The habit of religion is oppressive, an easy way out of thought.'.. Peter Ustinov
'One of the most important days of my life was when I learned to ride a bicycle'.. Michael Palin