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Famous British Quotes
'No man can be an agnostic who has a sense of humour.'.. E M Forster
'I only go out to get me a fresh appetite for being alone.'.. Lord Byron
'All fantasy should have a solid base in reality.'.. Max Beerbohm
'The greatest problem about old age is the fear that it may go on too long.'.. A J P Taylor
'Sometimes when you're drunk you can see better.'.. Damien Hirst
'It is only when you see people looking ridiculous that you realize just how much you love them'.. Agatha Christie
'Until you understand a writer's ignorance, presume yourself ignorant of his understanding'.. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
'All vital truth contains the memory of all that for which it is not true.'.. D H Lawrence
'Genius at first is little more than a great capacity for receiving discipline'.. George Eliot
'For success, attitude is equally as important as ability.'.. Walter Scott
'Language ought to be the joint creation of poets and manual workers'.. George Orwell
'You can lead a horse to water, but a pencil must be led.'.. Stan Laurel
'Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers.'.. Alfred Lord Tennyson
'I am in that temper that if I were under water I would scarcely kick to come to the top'.. John Keats
'Well may your heart believe the truths I tell; 'Tis virtue makes the bliss, where'er we dwell.'.. Wilkie Collins
'The way to tell if a man is sexually excited is to check if he is breathing'.. Jo Brand
'People do not believe lies because they have to, but because they want to'.. Malcolm Muggeridge
'Life is ours to be spent, not to be saved.'.. D H Lawrence
'To see a world in a grain of sand and heaven in a wild flower Hold infinity in the palms of your hand and eternity in an hour'.. William Blake
'The limits of the possible can only be defined by going beyond them into the impossible.'.. Arthur C Clarke
'You shall judge a man by his foes as well as by his friends.'.. Joseph Conrad
'No man was ever so completely skilled in the conduct of life, as not to receive new information from age and experience.'.. Jonathan Swift
'History is a race between education and catastrophe.'.. H G Wells
'God never made His work for man to mend.'.. John Dryden
'On the outskirts of every agony sits some observant fellow who points.'.. Virginia Woolf
'Royalty is the gold teeth in a mouth full of decay'.. John Osborne
'Biography lends to death a new terror'.. Oscar Wilde
'Men can only be happy when they do not assume that the object of life is happiness'.. George Orwell
'My favorite sexual fantasy is smearing my body in chocolate and being left alone in a room to eat it'.. Jo Brand
'I thought how unpleasant it is to be locked out; and I thought how it is worse, perhaps, to be locked in.'.. Virginia Woolf