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Famous British Quotes
'An aim in life is the only fortune worth finding.'.. Robert Louis Stevenson
'The problem with committing political suicide is that you may live to regret it'.. Winston Churchill
'To make us love our country, our country ought to be lovely.'.. Edmund Burke
'To all, to each, a fair good-night, and pleasing dreams, and slumbers light.'.. Walter Scott
'Life isn't black and white. It's a million gray areas, don't you find?'.. Ridley Scott
'Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal.'.. T S Eliot
'There are some things you can't share without ending up liking each other.'.. J K Rowling
'History shows that the majority of people that have done anything great have passed their youth in seclusion'.. Thomas Carlyle
'A resolution to avoid an evil is seldom framed till the evil is so far advanced as to make avoidance impossible'.. Thomas Hardy
'In London, love and scandal are considered the best sweeteners of tea.'.. John Osborne
'Do not let spacious plans for a new world divert your energies from saving what is left of the old'.. Winston Churchill
'Selfishness is the greatest curse of the human race.'.. W E Gladstone
''May my last breath be drawn from a pipe and exhaled in a pun''.. Charles Lamb
'This diamond has so many carats it's almost a turnip.'.. Richard Burton
'Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers.'.. Alfred Lord Tennyson
'In English villages you turn over a stone and never know what might creep out'.. Agatha Christie
'A woman is as young as her knees.'.. Mary Quant
'I chose my wife, as she did her wedding gown, for qualities that would wear well'.. Oliver Goldsmith
'What though youth gave love and roses, Age still leaves us friends and wine.'.. Thomas More
'The war between the sexes is the only one in which both sides regularly sleep with the enemy'.. Quentin Crisp
'Quality is never an accident. It is always the result of intelligent effort.'.. John Ruskin
'Media is just a word that has come to mean bad journalism.'.. Graham Greene
'I can't stand innuendo. When I see one in a script I whip it out immediately'.. Kenneth Williams
'Talent, lying in the understanding, is often inherited; genius, being the action of reason or imagination, rarely or never'.. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
'If a man's wit be wandering, let him study the mathematics.'.. Sir Francis Bacon
'No advance in wealth, no softening of manners, no reform or revolution has ever brought human equality a millimeter nearer'.. George Orwell
'Discretion is the perfection of reason, and a guide to us in all the duties of life.'.. Walter Scott
'Not where I breathe, but where I love, I live; Not where I love, but where I am, I die'.. Robert Southey
'I think it is the responsibility of a citizen of any country to say what he thinks.'.. Harold Pinter
'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