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Famous British Quotes
'I would much prefer to be a judge than a coal miner because of the absence of falling coal'.. Peter Cook
'A prudent question is one-half of wisdom.'.. Sir Francis Bacon
'No one can read with profit that which he cannot learn to read with pleasure.'.. Thomas Hardy
'The wisest prophets make sure of the event first.'.. Horace Walpole
'A slavish bondage to parents cramps every faculty of the mind.'.. Mary Shelley
'When a stupid man is doing something he is ashamed of, he always declares that it is his duty.'.. George Bernard Shaw
'The dread of evil is a much more forcible principle of human actions than the prospect of good.'.. John Locke
'Many a man is praised for his reserve and so-called shyness when he is simply too proud to risk making a fool of himself.'.. J B Priestley
'A diplomat is a man who thinks twice before he says nothing.'.. Edward Heath
'Ambition may be defined as the willingness to receive any number of hits on the nose'.. Wilfred Owen
'We always love those who admire us; we do not always love those whom we admire.'.. Rupert Brooke
''Not many sounds in life exceed in interest an unexpected knock at the door''.. Charles Lamb
'The performances you have in your head are always much better than the performances on stage'.. Maggie Smith
'History has remembered the kings and warriors, because they destroyed; art has remembered the people, because they created'.. William Morris
'I thought I'd begin by reading a poem by Shakespeare, but then I thought, why should I? He never reads any of mine.'.. Spike Milligan
'Art can never exist without naked beauty displayed.'.. William Blake
'Experience teaches only the teachable.'.. Aldous Huxley
'Everyone has his day and some days last longer than others.'.. Winston Churchill
'When a thing's done, it's done, and if it's not done right, do it differently next time.'.. Arthur Ransome
'I see music as one language. If one musical form eats its own tail, it dies. So it needs to be a mongrel, it needs to be hybridised.'.. Sting
'Life, as I discovered, holds no more wretched occupation than trying to make the English laugh.'.. Malcolm Muggeridge
'It is not so much that the world has got so much worse but that news coverage has got so much better'.. GK Chesterton
'Not what I have, but what I do is my kingdom.'.. Thomas Carlyle
'Do what you haven't done is the key, I think.'.. Ridley Scott
'The marvelous thing about a joke with a double meaning is that it can only mean one thing'.. Ronnie Barker
'Everything I've ever told you, including this, is a lie'.. Peter Cook
'We cast a shadow on something wherever we stand.'.. E M Forster
'A laugh, to be joyous, must flow from a joyous heart, for without kindness, there can be no true joy'.. Thomas Carlyle
'It's very hard to be a gentleman and a writer.'.. Somerset Maugham
'England and America are two countries separated by the same language.'.. George Bernard Shaw