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Famous British Quotes
'Sometimes we stare so long at a door that is closing that we see too late the one that is open.'.. Alexander Graham Bell
'Summer has set in with its usual severity'.. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
'Credulity is the man's weakness, but the child's strength.'.. Charles Lamb
'There are some men who are improved by drinking; as there are fruits that are not good until they are rotten.'.. Samuel Johnson
'Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.'.. George Bernard Shaw
'The overall impression from the British is that they love France but would prefer it if the French didn't live there'.. Sir John Mortimer
'I think that by ignoring the show you're ignoring the audience who put you there'.. Simon Cowell
'History has remembered the kings and warriors, because they destroyed; art has remembered the people, because they created'.. William Morris
'A man without a goal is like a ship without a rudder.'.. Thomas Carlyle
'Pictures deface walls more often than they decorate them.'.. William Wordsworth
'Men do less than they ought, unless they do all that they can.'.. Thomas Carlyle
'The thing about imagination is that by the very act of putting it down, there must be some truth in one's own imagination.'.. Dennis Potter
'The difference between England and the USA is that when we have a world eries we invite other countries to participate'.. John Cleese
'Economic advance is not the same thing as human progress'.. John Clapham
'If at first you don’t succeed, failure may be your style'.. Quentin Crisp
'Subdue your appetites, my dears, and you've conquered human nature.'.. Charles Dickens
'Nowadays you can go anywhere in the world in a few hours, and nothing is fabulous any more'.. Roald Dahl
'I always admired virtue - but I could never imitate it'.. Charles II
'Invention is the talent of youth, as judgment is of age.'.. Jonathan Swift
'To myself I am only a child playing on the beach, while vast oceans of truth lie undiscovered before me'.. Isaac Newton
'Society has always seemed to demand a little more from human beings than it will get in practice'.. George Orwell
'All good things which exist are the fruits of originality.'.. John Stuart Mill
'Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past'.. George Orwell
'If there's no money in poetry, neither is there poetry in money.'.. Robert Graves
'There is a condition worse than blindness, and that is, seeing something that isn't there.'.. Thomas Hardy
'A dog is for life and not just for christmas so do be careful at the office party'.. Jimmy Carr
'A slavish bondage to parents cramps every faculty of the mind.'.. Mary Shelley
'Life is what happens while you are busy making other plans.'.. John Lennon
'The real character of a man is found out by his amusements.'.. Joshua Reynolds
'He travels best that knows when to return.'.. Thomas More