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Famous British Quotes
'It is with words as with sunbeams - the more they are condensed, the deeper they burn'.. Robert Southey
'Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught'.. Oscar Wilde
'English consists entirely of foreign words pronounced wrongly'.. Bob Hope
'An aim in life is the only fortune worth finding.'.. Robert Louis Stevenson
'You can lead a horse to water, but a pencil must be led.'.. Stan Laurel
'He who knows only his own side of the case knows little of that.'.. John Stuart Mill
'Fill your paper with the breathings of your heart.'.. William Wordsworth
'I love argument, I love debate. I don't expect anyone just to sit there and agree with me, that's not their job'.. Margaret Thatcher
'A lot of football success is in the mind. You must believe you are the best and then make sure that you are.'.. Bill Shankly
'Nothing is too wonderful to be true if it be consistent with the laws of nature'.. Michael Faraday
'Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown.'.. William Shakespeare
'You fall out of your Mothers womb, crawl across open country under fire and crawl in to your grave'.. Quentin Crisp
'If you can't annoy somebody, there's little point in writing.'.. Sir Kingsley Amis
'There's no use doing a kindness if you do it a day too late.'.. Charles Kingsley
'Death destroys a man, but the idea of death saves him.'.. E M Forster
'The fact that logic cannot satisfy us awakens an almost insatiable hunger for the irrational.'.. A N Wilson
'The job of the artist is always to deepen the mystery.'.. Francis Bacon
'By indignities men come to dignities.'.. Sir Francis Bacon
'The love of a mother is the veil of a softer light between the heart and the heavenly Father'.. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
'Invention is the talent of youth, as judgment is of age.'.. Jonathan Swift
'I left England when I was 4 when I discovered that I couldnt be king'.. Bob Hope
'Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same.'.. Oscar Wilde
'The price of greatness is responsibility.'.. Winston Churchill
'I tell my children to avoid theatre and go into cinema and TV.'.. Peter O’Toole
'For truth is always strange; stranger than fiction.'.. Lord Byron
'Friendship is certainly the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love'.. Jane Austen
'Now that I know what I want, I don't have to hold on to it quite so much.'.. Lucien Freud
'I don't mind how much my Ministers talk, so long as they do what I say'.. Margaret Thatcher
'There was no respect for youth when I was young, and now that I am old, there is no respect for age, I missed it coming and going'.. J B Priestley
'In the long history of humankind (and animal kind, too) those who learned to collaborate and improvise most effectively have prevailed.'.. Charles Darwin