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Famous British Quotes
'Nothing wilts faster than laurels that have been rested upon.'.. Percy Bysshe Shelley
'I am not young enough to know everything.'.. Oscar Wilde
'British People have a socialist mind and a conservative heart'.. Albert Finney
'He who would search for pearls must dive below.'.. John Dryden
'I think people should be free to engage in any sexual practices they choose; they should draw the line at goats though.'.. Elton John
'Now that I know what I want, I don't have to hold on to it quite so much.'.. Lucien Freud
'A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its autho'.. GK Chesterton
'Life, an age to the miserable, and a moment to the happy.'.. Sir Francis Bacon
'I never saw an ugly thing in my life: for let the form of an object be what it may, - light, shade, and perspective will always make it beautiful'.. John Constable
'Happiness can exist only in acceptance.'.. George Orwell
'A prudent question is one-half of wisdom.'.. Sir Francis Bacon
'Who overcomes by force, hath overcome but half his foe.'.. John Milton
'Bad humor is an evasion of reality; good humor is an acceptance of it.'.. Malcolm Muggeridge
'Squash - that's not exercise, it's flagellation.'.. Noel Coward
'Gossip is what no one claims to like, but everybody enjoys.'.. Joseph Conrad
'Early in life I had noticed that no event is ever correctly reported in a newspaper'.. George Orwell
'When words are scarce they are seldom spent in vain.'.. William Shakespeare
'Never the time and the place and the loved one all together!'.. Robert Browning
'Critics! Those cut-throat bandits in the paths of fame.'.. Robert Burns
'In London, love and scandal are considered the best sweeteners of tea.'.. John Osborne
'A woman uses her intelligence to find reasons to support her intuition'.. GK Chesterton
'A man that hoards up riches and enjoys them not, is like an ass that carries gold and eats thistles'.. Richard Burton
'Do what you haven't done is the key, I think.'.. Ridley Scott
'A faith is something you die for, a doctrine is something you kill for. There is all the difference in the world'.. Tony Benn
'A remarkable thing about Shakespeare is that he is really very good in spite of all the people who say he is very good'.. Robert Graves
'The most happy marriage I can picture or imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman'.. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
'Do noble things, not dream them all day long.'.. Charles Kingsley
'Nothing ever becomes real till it is experienced.'.. John Keats
'This diamond has so many carats it's almost a turnip.'.. Richard Burton
'If you can't annoy somebody, there's little point in writing.'.. Sir Kingsley Amis