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Famous British Quotes
'I have seen great intolerance shown in support of tolerance.'.. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
'In a completely sane world, madness is the only freedom!'.. James G Ballard
'There is always time for failure.'.. Sir John Mortimer
'Peace rules the day, where reason rules the mind.'.. Wilkie Collins
'Desperate affairs require desperate measures.'.. Horatio Nelson
'A man who does not think for himself does not think at all.'.. Oscar Wilde
'Like most of those who study history, he (Napoleon III) learned from the mistakes of the past how to make new ones.'.. A J P Taylor
'Cities, like cats, will reveal themselves at night.'.. Rupert Brooke
'Our patience will achieve more than our force.'.. Edmund Burke
'I think childhood is to everyone a lost land.'.. Dennis Potter
'Assassination is the extreme form of censorship.'.. George Bernard Shaw
'Cast is everything.'.. Ridley Scott
'Everybody loves you when you're six foot in the ground.'.. John Lennon
'I can't stand innuendo. When I see one in a script I whip it out immediately'.. Kenneth Williams
'Never keep up with the Jones's. Drag them down to your level instead'.. Quentin Crisp
'One should always play fairly when one has the winning cards.'.. Oscar Wilde
'Proof that God has an odd sense of humour - after inventing Haute Cuisine he gave it to the French'.. A A Gill
'Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.'.. Rudyard Kipling
'Kinross House, the beautiful and regular piece of architecture in all of Scotland'.. Daniel Defoe
'Everyone ought to bear patiently the results of his own conduct.'.. William Shakespeare
'To sentence a man of true genius, to the drudgery of a school is to put a racehorse on a treadmill'.. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
'What Youth deemed crystal, Age finds out was dew.'.. Robert Browning
'Talking is the disease of age.'.. Ben Jonson
'A good thing never ends.'.. Mick Jagger
'Be thine own palace, or the world's thy jail.'.. John Donne
'Instead of this absurd division into sexes they ought to class people as static and dynamic.'.. Evelyn Waugh
'There's no such thing as old age, there is only sorrow'.. Fay Weldon
'Life is made of ever so many partings welded together.'.. Charles Dickens
'Liberty must be limited in order to be possessed.'.. Edmund Burke
'A man that hoards up riches and enjoys them not, is like an ass that carries gold and eats thistles'.. Richard Burton