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Famous British Quotes
'Our incomes are like our shoes; if too small, they gall and pinch us; but if too large, they cause us to stumble and to trip.'.. John Locke
''Tis love that makes the world go round'.. Charles Dickens
'We cherish our friends not for their ability to amuse us, but for ours to amuse them.'.. Evelyn Waugh
'Men do less than they ought, unless they do all that they can.'.. Thomas Carlyle
'Every man at the bottom of his heart believes that he is a born detective.'.. John Buchan
'A little sincerity is a dangerous thing, and a great deal of it is absolutely fatal'.. Oscar Wilde
'I don't believe that the public knows what it wants; this is the conclusion that I have drawn from my career.'.. Charlie Chaplin
'Everybody grows but me.'.. Queen Victoria
'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
'I am a lover of truth, a worshipper of freedom, a celebrant at the altar of language and purity and tolerance.'.. Stephen Fry
'It is better to have a lion at the head of an army of sheep, than a sheep at the head of an army of lions'.. Daniel Defoe
'I hate people who think it's clever to take drugs... like custom officers'.. Jack Dee
'The function of posterity is to look after itself.'.. Dylan Thomas
'I refuse to spend my life worrying about what I eat. There is no pleasure worth forgoing just for an extra three years in the geriatric ward.'.. Sir John Mortimer
'All the war-propaganda, all the screaming and lies and hatred, comes invariably from people who are not fighting'.. George Orwell
'He threatens many that hath injured one'.. Ben Jonson
'We are all here on earth to help others; what on earth the others are here for I don't know.'.. W H Auden
'The fashionable woman wears clothes. The clothes don't wear her.'.. Mary Quant
'The finest landscape is improved by a good Pub in the foreground'.. Samuel Johnson
'Our own heart, and not other men's opinions form our true honor.'.. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
'To myself I am only a child playing on the beach, while vast oceans of truth lie undiscovered before me'.. Isaac Newton
'Death is the sound of distant thunder at a picnic.'.. W H Auden
'If God did not intend for us to eat animals, then why did he make them out of meat?'.. John Cleese
'I am in that temper that if I were under water I would scarcely kick to come to the top'.. John Keats
'I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires, rather than in attempting to satisfy them.'.. John Stuart Mill
'I took on the sins of everybody, of a generation, really'.. Christine Keeler
'Any relic of the dead is precious, if they were valued living.'.. Emily Bronte
'I'd like to grow very old as slowly as possible.'.. Charles Lamb
'In times of joy, all of us wished we possessed a tail we could wag.'.. W H Auden
'The sound of laughter is the most civilised music in the world'.. Peter Ustinov