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Famous British Quotes
'An explanation of cause is not a justification by reason'.. C S Lewis
'To destroy is still the strongest instinct in nature.'.. Max Beerbohm
'It is obvious that we can no more explain a passion to a person who has never experienced it than we can explain light to the blind.'.. T S Eliot
'The difference between a bad artist and a good one is: the bad artist seems to copy a great deal; the good one really does'.. William Blake
'One of the disadvantages of wine is that it makes a man mistake words for thoughts.'.. Samuel Johnson
'The essence of being human is that one does not seek perfection'.. George Orwell
'I can calculate the motion of heavenly bodies, but not the madness of people'.. Isaac Newton
'And the White Album is important to me for different reasons. One - I had left the band on the White Album.'.. Ringo Starr
'I sometimes think that being widowed is God's way of telling you to come off the Pill.'.. Victoria Wood
'I am a lover of truth, a worshipper of freedom, a celebrant at the altar of language and purity and tolerance.'.. Stephen Fry
'Farce is tragedy played at a thousand revolutions per minute.'.. Sir John Mortimer
'To me there has never been a higher source of earthly honor or distinction than that connected with advances in science'.. Isaac Newton
'Well may your heart believe the truths I tell; 'Tis virtue makes the bliss, where'er we dwell.'.. Wilkie Collins
'There is much to be said for failure. It is much more interesting than success.'.. Max Beerbohm
'My family pride is something inconceivable. I can't help it. I was born sneering.'.. W S Gilbert
'My reputation grows with every failure.'.. George Bernard Shaw
'When you read and understand a poem, comprehending its rich and formal meanings, then you master chaos a little.'.. Stephen Spender
'A neurosis is a secret that you don't know you are keeping.'.. Kenneth Tynan
'I'm an optimist, but an optimist who carries a raincoat.'.. Harold Wilson
'Now is the age of anxiety.'.. W H Auden
'The British tourist is always happy abroad as long as the natives are waiters'.. Robert Morley
'Man's silence is wonderful to listen to.'.. Thomas Hardy
'All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.'.. Winston Churchill
'English winters are like the 1st world war. You start thinking am I going to get to the end of this'.. John Cleese
'Life is ours to be spent, not to be saved.'.. D H Lawrence
'Poets don't have an 'audience'. They're talking to a single person all the time'.. Robert Graves
'Comedy is simply a funny way of being serious.'.. Peter Ustinov
'At fifty everyone has the face he deserves.'.. George Orwell
'The creative habit is like a drug. The particular obsession changes, but the excitement, the thrill of your creation lasts'.. Henry Moore
'Prudence is a rich, ugly, old maid courted by incapacity.'.. William Blake