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Famous British Quotes
'An ounce of mother is worth a pound of clergy.'.. Rudyard Kipling
'A mere copier of nature can never produce anything great.'.. Joshua Reynolds
'Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man'.. Sir Francis Bacon
'My character and good name are in my own keeping. Life with disgrace is dreadful. A glorious death is to be envied'.. Horatio Nelson
'A celebrity is one who is known to many persons he is glad he doesn't know'.. Lord Byron
'The fact that logic cannot satisfy us awakens an almost insatiable hunger for the irrational.'.. A N Wilson
'As a woman I have no country. As a woman my country is the whole world.'.. Virginia Woolf
'Its the menopause. I have got my own climate'.. Julie Walters
'A toddling little girl is a centre of common feeling which makes the most dissimilar people understand each other.'.. George Eliot
'When people tell you how young you look, they are telling you how old you are.'.. Cary Grant
'Assassination is the extreme form of censorship.'.. George Bernard Shaw
'Any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in Mankind; And therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee.'.. John Donne
'You will find that the woman who is really kind to dogs is always one who has failed to inspire sympathy in men'.. Max Beerbohm
'Intelligence is the ability to adapt to change.'.. Stephen Hawking
'Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past'.. George Orwell
'The length of a film should be directly determined by the endurance of the human bladder'.. Alfred Hitchcock
'Now is the age of anxiety.'.. W H Auden
'I'll give you my opinion of the human race in a nutshell... their heart's in the right place, but their head is a thoroughly inefficient organ.'.. Somerset Maugham
'Life is a tragedy when seen in close-up, but a comedy in long-shot.'.. Charlie Chaplin
'A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of.'.. Jane Austen
'Life is made of ever so many partings welded together.'.. Charles Dickens
'The main object of religion is not to get a man into heaven, but to get heaven into him'.. Thomas Hardy
'In human relationships, kindness and lies are worth a thousand truths'.. Graham Greene
'It is only the dull who like practical jokes'.. Oscar Wilde
'Lawyers, I suppose, were children once.'.. Charles Lamb
'How inappropriate to call this planet Earth when it is quite clearly Ocean.'.. Arthur C Clarke
'Nothing that is morally wrong can be politically right.'.. W E Gladstone
'British People have a socialist mind and a conservative heart'.. Albert Finney
'My wife is a sex object - every time I ask for sex, she objects.'.. Les Dawson
'All vital truth contains the memory of all that for which it is not true.'.. D H Lawrence