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Famous British Quotes
'Swansea - Ugh, Lovely town'.. Dylan Thomas
'Thieves respect property - they merely wish it to become their property'.. GK Chesterton
'Difficulties mastered are opportunities won.'.. Winston Churchill
'I need no dictionary of quotations to remind me that the eyes are the windows of the soul'.. Max Beerbohm
'It is fatal to be a man or woman pure and simple: one must be a manly woman, or a womanly man.'.. Virginia Woolf
'He that loves to be flattered is worthy o' the flatterer.'.. William Shakespeare
'No man is good enough to be another's master.'.. William Morris
'A woman can be anything the man who loves her would have her be.'.. J M Barrie
'Being powerful is like being a lady. If you have to tell people you are, you aren't'.. Margaret Thatcher
'Life is made of ever so many partings welded together.'.. Charles Dickens
'If I played Hamlet, they`d call it a horror film'.. Peter Cushing
'Twin-sister of Religion, Selfishness.'.. Percy Bysshe Shelley
'Love in all eight tones and all five semitones of the word's full octave.'.. Stephen Fry
'Taste is the only morality. Tell me what you like and I'll tell you what you are'.. John Ruskin
'It is not how much one makes but to what purpose one spends.'.. John Ruskin
'Nurture your minds with great thoughts. To believe in the heroic makes heroes'.. Benjamin Disraeli
'Nothing is more obstinate than a fashionable consensus.'.. Margaret Thatcher
'Age is a very high price to pay for maturity.'.. Sir Tom Stoppard
'I do not want a husband who honours me as a queen, if he does not love me as a woman.'.. Elizabeth I
'Life turned out much better than I thought. I knew after a little while that I could act.'.. Peter O’Toole
'Pity those who nature abuses; never those who abuse nature.'.. Richard Sheridan
'If you don't know where you are going, any road will get you there.'.. Lewis Carroll
'The real character of a man is found out by his amusements.'.. Joshua Reynolds
'I think you should take your job seriously, but not yourself - that is the best combination'.. Judi Dench
'A poet is a professional maker of verbal objects.'.. W H Auden
'Women are for bastmen, beer is for bowlers. God help the all-rounders!'.. Fred Trueman
'Necessity dispenseth with decorum.'.. Thomas Carlyle
'In me the tiger sniffs the rose.'.. Siegfried Sassoon
'I used to look at these pictures of trumpeters pointing their instrument to the ceiling. Stunning pictures, but if you play the trumpet and point it upwards, all the spit comes back into your mouth!'.. Humphrey Lyttleton
'Autumn wins you best by this its mute appeal to sympathy for its decay.'.. Robert Browning