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Famous British Quotes
'A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its autho'.. GK Chesterton
'They say eyes clear with age.'.. Philip Larkin
'I can take any amount of criticism as long as its unqualifed praise'.. Noel Coward
'Fortunate indeed the child who first sees the light of day in that romantic town'.. Andrew Carnegie
'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
'The politician who never made a mistake never made a decision.'.. John Major
'A man who does not think for himself does not think at all.'.. Oscar Wilde
'Eternity's a terrible thought. I mean, where's it all going to end?'.. Sir Tom Stoppard
'The only fence against the world is a thorough knowledge of it.'.. John Locke
'Every man who is high up likes to think that he has done it all himself, and the wife smiles and lets it go at that'.. J M Barrie
'Men do less than they ought, unless they do all that they can.'.. Thomas Carlyle
'The mark of a good action is that it appears inevitable in retrospect.'.. Robert Louis Stevenson
'I never knew a man come to greatness or eminence who lay abed late in the morning.'.. Jonathan Swift
'There is always time for failure.'.. Sir John Mortimer
'Speed has never killed anyone, suddenly becoming stationary… that’s what gets you'.. Jeremy Clarkson
'My biggest regret in life is saving David Frost from drowning'.. Peter Cook
'I always tell a man not to use the word always'.. Robert Walpole
'The first and simplest emotion which we discover in the human mind, is curiosity.'.. Edmund Burke
'Everything's complicated, even those things that seem flat in their bleakness or sadness'.. Nick Hornby
'Success is a great deodorant.'.. Elizabeth Taylor
'The golden rule is that there are no golden rules.'.. George Bernard Shaw
'There is only one religion, though there are a hundred versions of it.'.. George Bernard Shaw
'Fashion is what you adopt when you dont know who you are'.. Quentin Crisp
'We build too many walls and not enough bridges.'.. Isaac Newton
'Russia is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma.'.. Winston Churchill
'He was a bold man that first eat on oyster.'.. Jonathan Swift
'After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.'.. Aldous Huxley
'A neurosis is a secret that you don't know you are keeping.'.. Kenneth Tynan
'Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same.'.. Oscar Wilde
'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