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Famous British Quotes
'I do not believe in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.'.. Thomas Carlyle
'The most important of my discoveries have been suggested to me by my failures'.. Humphry Davy
'The very essence of instinct is that it's followed independently of reason.'.. Charles Darwin
'The greatest tragedy in mankind's entire history may be the hijacking of morality by religion'.. Arthur C Clarke
'My family pride is something inconceivable. I can't help it. I was born sneering.'.. W S Gilbert
'I should like to say that good batsman are born, not made; but my long experience comes up before me, and tells me that it is not so.'.. W G Grace
'Ask the right questions if you're to find the right answers.'.. Vanessa Redgrave
'Find enough clever things to say, and you're a Prime Minister; write them down and you're a Shakespeare'.. George Bernard Shaw
'I don't work at being ordinary.'.. Paul McCartney
'There are some things only intellectuals are crazy enough to believe'.. George Orwell
'Great literature should do some good to the reader: must quicken his perception though dull, and sharpen his discrimination though blunt, and mellow the rawness of his personal opinions'.. A E Housman
'Nature never did betray the heart that loved her.'.. William Wordsworth
'Evil is unspectacular and always human, and shares our bed and eats at our own table.'.. W H Auden
'The one phrase imperative to know in any foreign language is My friend will pay'.. Alan Whicker
'An unexciting truth may be eclipsed by a thrilling lie.'.. Aldous Huxley
'A week is a long time in politics.'.. Harold Wilson
'As love without esteem is capricious and volatile; esteem without love is languid and cold.'.. Jonathan Swift
'Marriage is one long conversation, chequered by disputes.'.. Robert Louis Stevenson
'There is not in nature, a thing that makes man so deformed, so beastly, as doth intemperate anger.'.. Alan Bleasdale
'To make your children capable of honesty is the beginning of education.'.. John Ruskin
'How little do they see what is, who frame their hasty judgments upon that which seems'.. Robert Southey
'Both read the Bible day and night, but thou read black where I read white'.. William Blake
'War would end if the dead could return.'.. Stanley Baldwin
'Without tact you can learn nothing.'.. Benjamin Disraeli
'A diplomat these days in nothing, but a head waiter who is allowed to sit down occasionally.'.. Peter Ustinov
'I do not want a husband who honours me as a queen, if he does not love me as a woman.'.. Elizabeth I
'Dancing is a perpendicular expression of a horizontal desire.'.. George Bernard Shaw
'Most human beings have an infinite capacity for taking things for granted'.. Aldous Huxley
'Knowledge is power.'.. Sir Francis Bacon
'Put three Englishmen on a desert island and within an hour they will have invented a class system'.. Alan Ayckbourn