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Famous British Quotes
'The very essence of instinct is that it's followed independently of reason.'.. Charles Darwin
'I love everything that's old, - old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wine'.. Oliver Goldsmith
'The love of a mother is the veil of a softer light between the heart and the heavenly Father'.. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
'Thank goodness I was never sent to school; it would have rubbed off some of the originality.'.. Beatrix Potter
'The hardest part of sailing round the world? Stepping on dry land'.. Ellen MacArthur
'I don't pretend to understand the Universe - it's a great deal bigger than I am.'.. Thomas Carlyle
'I know not, sir, whether Bacon wrote the works of Shakespeare, but if he did not, it seems to me that he missed the opportunity of his life.'.. J M Barrie
'The sound of laughter is the most civilised music in the world'.. Peter Ustinov
'There is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact.'.. Arthur Conan Doyle
'A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men.'.. Roald Dahl
'A wise man should have money in his head, but not in his heart.'.. Jonathan Swift
'A man with God is always in the majority.'.. John Knox
'The years between fifty and seventy are the hardest. You are always being asked to do things, and yet you are not decrepit enough to turn them down.'.. George Eliot
'Dare to be honest and fear no labour.'.. Robert Burns
'Older women are best, because they always think they may be doing it for the last time.'.. Ian Fleming
'Ideas shape the course of history.'.. John Maynard Keynes
'I haven't had that many women - only as many as I could lay my hands on'.. Dudley Moore
'Honour sinks where commerce long prevails.'.. Oliver Goldsmith
'I can't stand innuendo. When I see one in a script I whip it out immediately'.. Kenneth Williams
'Reading without reflecting is like eating without digesting.'.. Edmund Burke
'Work is the curse of the drinking classes.'.. Oscar Wilde
'This is the first age that's ever paid much attention to the future, which is a little ironic since we may not have one'.. Arthur C Clarke
'A master of improvised speech and improvised policies.'.. A J P Taylor
'Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel.'.. Samuel Johnson
'Education: the inculcation of the incomprehensible into the indifferent by the incompetent'.. John Maynard Keynes
'I'm not afraid of dying I just don't want to be there when it happens.'.. Spike Milligan
'Silence is as deep as eternity, speech a shallow as time.'.. Thomas Carlyle
'Be just before you are generous.'.. Richard Sheridan
'Every war when it comes, or before it comes, is represented not as a war but as an act of self-defense against a homicidal maniac'.. George Orwell
'If you feel that life is one of Gods jokes there is still no reason not to make it a good oke'.. Kenneth Williams