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Famous British Quotes
'Fill your paper with the breathings of your heart.'.. William Wordsworth
'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
'Nonsense and beauty have close connections.'.. E M Forster
'Instead of this absurd division into sexes they ought to class people as static and dynamic.'.. Evelyn Waugh
'An agent is a person who is sore because an actor gets 90% of what they make.'.. Elton John
'Go as far as you can see; when you get there you'll be able to see farther.'.. Thomas Carlyle
'All fantasy should have a solid base in reality.'.. Max Beerbohm
'Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.'.. George Bernard Shaw
'Do what you haven't done is the key, I think.'.. Ridley Scott
'A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul.'.. George Bernard Shaw
'Have nothing in your house that you do not know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful.'.. William Morris
'No advance in wealth, no softening of manners, no reform or revolution has ever brought human equality a millimeter nearer'.. George Orwell
'Nature, to be commanded, must be obeyed.'.. Sir Francis Bacon
'Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another'.. GK Chesterton
'You may be as vicious about me as you please. You will only do me justice.'.. Richard Burton
'I like Beethoven, especially the poems.'.. Ringo Starr
'Nothing puzzles me more than the time and space; and yet nothing troubles me less.'.. Charles Lamb
'WH Auden didnt love God, he just fancied him'.. Stephen Spender
'Colin is the sort of name you give your goldfish for a joke'.. Colin Firth
'This report, by its very length, defends itself against the risk of being read.'.. Winston Churchill
'My goal is simple. It is a complete understanding of the universe, why it is as it is and why it exists at all.'.. Stephen Hawking
'A man with God is always in the majority.'.. John Knox
'I`ve arrived, and to prove it, I`m here.'.. Max Bygraves
'Life could be wonderful if people would leave you alone.'.. Charlie Chaplin
'I love criticism just so long as it's unqualified praise.'.. Noel Coward
'He was one of those men who possess almost every gift, except the gift of the power to use them.'.. Charles Kingsley
'I have seen great intolerance shown in support of tolerance.'.. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
'When I was young I thought that money was the most important thing in life; now that I am old I know that it is.'.. Oscar Wilde
'It is curious that every creed promises a paradise on death which is unthinkable for anyone of taste'.. Evelyn Waugh
'If you had a face like mine, you'd punch me right on the nose, and I'm just the fella to do it.'.. Stan Laurel