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Famous British Quotes
'Experience teaches only the teachable.'.. Aldous Huxley
'So many objections may be made to everything, that nothing can overcome them but the necessity of doing something'.. Samuel Johnson
'I used to think anyone doing anything weird was weird. Now I know that it is the people that call others weird that are weird'.. Paul McCartney
'God could not be everywhere, and therefore he made mothers.'.. Rudyard Kipling
'The palace is not safe when the cottage is not happy.'.. Benjamin Disraeli
'What Youth deemed crystal, Age finds out was dew.'.. Robert Browning
'Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man'.. Sir Francis Bacon
'Exhilaration is that feeling you get just after a great idea hits you, and just before you realize what`s wrong with it.'.. Rex Harrison
'Three minutes thought would suffice to sort this out but thought is irksome and three minutes is a long time'.. A E Housman
'What is easy is seldom excellent.'.. Samuel Johnson
'Outside every fat man there was an even fatter man trying to close in.'.. Sir Kingsley Amis
'Who's ever going to write a film in which I get the girl? Me!'.. John Cleese
'I do not live in the world of sobriety.'.. Oliver Reed
'Better never than late.'.. George Bernard Shaw
'Knowledge is power.'.. Sir Francis Bacon
'When I was a nurse my favourite assignment was the anorexia ward. I sometimes had 17 dinners'.. Jo Brand
'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
'Never keep up with the Jones's. Drag them down to your level instead'.. Quentin Crisp
'The mark of a good action is that it appears inevitable in retrospect.'.. Robert Louis Stevenson
'I'm always looking for meaningful one-night stands'.. Dudley Moore
'Without humility there can be no humanity.'.. John Buchan
'You will find in politics that you are much exposed to the attribution of false motive. Never complain and never explain'.. Stanley Baldwin
'I am half British and half American. My passport has an eagle with a tea bag in its mouth'.. Bob Hope
'It's difficult isn't it, when you're in a Mosque and everyone's praying and you really enjoy leapfrog'.. Milton Jones
'He has sat on the fence so long that the iron has entered his soul.'.. David Lloyd George
'No amount of ability is of the slightest avail without honor.'.. Thomas Carlyle
'Fortunate indeed the child who first sees the light of day in that romantic town'.. Andrew Carnegie
'Fashion for the most part is nothing but the ostentation of riches.'.. John Locke
'Every man's memory is his private literature.'.. Aldous Huxley
'A man's as old as he's feeling. A woman as old as she looks.'.. Samuel Taylor Coleridge