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Famous British Quotes
'Childhood is measured out by sounds and smells and sights, before the dark hour of reason grows.'.. John Betjeman
'If you are cast in a different mould to the majority, it is no merit of yours: Nature did it.'.. Charlotte Bronte
'Parliament must not be told a direct untruth, but it's quite possible to allow them to mislead themselves'.. Norman Tebbit
'When a man is wrapped up in himself, he makes a pretty small package'.. John Ruskin
'Strange to see how a good dinner and feasting reconciles everybody.'.. Samuel Pepys
'If you don't know where you are going, any road will get you there.'.. Lewis Carroll
'We may be a small island, but we are not a small people.'.. Edward Heath
'I sometimes think that being widowed is God's way of telling you to come off the Pill.'.. Victoria Wood
'Everyone seems to fear dying alone. I have never understood this - who wants to die and be polite at the same time'.. Quentin Crisp
'The real character of a man is found out by his amusements.'.. Joshua Reynolds
'As far as I am concerned the paint is the person. I want it to work for me just as flesh does.'.. Lucien Freud
'If I cannot understand my friend's silence, I will never get to understand his words.'.. Enoch Powell
'Happiness can exist only in acceptance.'.. George Orwell
'I am a lover of truth, a worshipper of freedom, a celebrant at the altar of language and purity and tolerance.'.. Stephen Fry
'What really matters is what you do with what you have.'.. H G Wells
'I don't think Henry Kissinger would have lasted 48 hours at Old Trafford.'.. Tommy Docherty
'It is justice, not charity, that is wanting in the world.'.. Mary Shelley
'It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.'.. Oscar Wilde
'Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings.'.. Samuel Johnson
'A smile abroad is often a scowl at home.'.. Alfred Lord Tennyson
'Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.'.. Samuel Johnson
'You only require two things in life: your sanity and your wife.'.. Tony Blair
'Music is the best means we have of digesting time.'.. W H Auden
'Pain is no evil, unless it conquers us.'.. Charles Kingsley
'Lets face it Football is a game for commoners. As soon as you get a mortgage you start to like Tennis'.. Jonathan Ross
'Faith is a passionate intuition.'.. William Wordsworth
'A yawn is a silent shout'.. GK Chesterton
'The great advantage of being in a rut is that when one is in a rut one knows exactly where one is'.. Alan Bennett
'No man is useless while he has a friend.'.. Robert Louis Stevenson
'The human species, according to the best theory I can form of it, is composed of two distinct races, the men who borrow and the men who lend.'.. Charles Lamb