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Famous British Quotes
'Responsibilities gravitate to the person who can shoulder them.'.. Sir Tom Stoppard
'Life isn't black and white. It's a million gray areas, don't you find?'.. Ridley Scott
'A loving heart is the truest wisdom.'.. Charles Dickens
'Heroes, whatever high ideas we may have of them, are mortal and not divine. We are all as God made us and many of us much worse.'.. John Osborne
'The aim of a joke is not to degrade the human being, but to remind him that he is already degraded'.. George Orwell
'The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost.'.. GK Chesterton
'The length of a film should be directly determined by the endurance of the human bladder'.. Alfred Hitchcock
'If your morals make you dreary, depend on it, they are wrong.'.. Robert Louis Stevenson
'A woman uses her intelligence to find reasons to support her intuition'.. GK Chesterton
'Farce is tragedy played at a thousand revolutions per minute.'.. Sir John Mortimer
'A man's friendships are one of the best measures of his worth.'.. Charles Darwin
'Here is my first principle of foreign policy: good government at home'.. W E Gladstone
'Someone told me that each equation I included in the book would halve the sales.'.. Stephen Hawking
'Jogging is for people who aren't intelligent enough to watch breakfast TV'.. Victoria Wood
'It's discouraging to think how many people are shocked by honesty and how few by deceit.'.. Noel Coward
'Music is the best means we have of digesting time.'.. W H Auden
'A clear and innocent conscience fears nothing.'.. Elizabeth I
'I am a part of all that I have seen.'.. Alfred Lord Tennyson
'Big Brother is watching you.'.. George Orwell
'An author who speaks about their own books is almost as bad as a mother who speaks about her own children.'.. Benjamin Disraeli
'Artists are like everybody else.'.. Damien Hirst
'The first condition of understanding a foreign country is to smell it.'.. Rudyard Kipling
'Milford Haven - the finest port of Christendom'.. Horatio Nelson
'Broadcasting is really too important to be left to the broadcasters.'.. Tony Benn
'Life has a practice of living you, if you don't live it.'.. Philip Larkin
'Oh, the tiger will love you. There is no sincerer love than the love of food.'.. George Bernard Shaw
'Without frugality none can be rich, and with it very few would be poor.'.. Samuel Johnson
'Everytime a child says 'I don't believe in fairies' there is a a little fairy somewhere that falls down dead.'.. J M Barrie
'We are so fond on one another because our ailments are the same.'.. Jonathan Swift
'Nothing can be beautiful which is not true.'.. John Ruskin