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Famous British Quotes
'The world is like a grand staircase, some are going up and some are going down.'.. Samuel Johnson
'Be thine own palace, or the world's thy jail.'.. John Donne
'I became a great runner because if you are a kid in Leeds called Sebastian you have to be'.. Sebastian Coe
'Our main business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand'.. Thomas Carlyle
'The job of the artist is always to deepen the mystery.'.. Francis Bacon
'Golf is a day spent in a round of strenuous idleness.'.. William Wordsworth
'Every new opinion, at its starting, is precisely in a minority of one.'.. Thomas Carlyle
'Now that I know what I want, I don't have to hold on to it quite so much.'.. Lucien Freud
'Fear is the mother of foresight.'.. Thomas Hardy
'A woman uses her intelligence to find reasons to support her intuition'.. GK Chesterton
'Arrange whatever pieces come your way.'.. Virginia Woolf
'Have a heart that never hardens, and a temper that never tires, and a touch that never hurts.'.. Charles Dickens
'I think childhood is to everyone a lost land.'.. Dennis Potter
'All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players'.. William Shakespeare
'We give advice by the bucket, but take it by the grain.'.. Sir Tom Stoppard
'I think fidelity is a good idea - now that I cant walk'.. Sir John Mortimer
'Promises and pie-crust are made to be broken.'.. Jonathan Swift
'Kings govern by means of popular assemblies only when they cannot do without them'.. Charles James Fox
'The first condition of progress is the removal of censorship.'.. George Bernard Shaw
'We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.'.. Winston Churchill
'Life is easy to chronicle, but bewildering to practice.'.. E M Forster
'There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.'.. Benjamin Disraeli
'The best car safety device is a rear-view mirror with a cop in it'.. Dudley Moore
'It's no use crying over spilt summits.'.. Harold Macmillan
'The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age, which mean never losing your enthusiasm.'.. Aldous Huxley
'If we don't end war, war will end us.'.. H G Wells
'The politician who never made a mistake never made a decision.'.. John Major
'No man is useless while he has a friend.'.. Robert Louis Stevenson
'Life was planned by a committee while the clever ones had popped out to the lav'.. Victoria Wood
'There are some things only intellectuals are crazy enough to believe'.. George Orwell