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Famous British Quotes
'I am sure that if the mothers of various nations could meet, there would be no more wars'.. E M Forster
'Television has bought murder back in to the home - where it belongs'.. Alfred Hitchcock
'It is a mistake to think you can solve any major problems just with potatoes'.. Douglas Adams
'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
'There but for the grace of God goes God'.. Winston Churchill
'Before anything else, preparation is the key to success.'.. Alexander Graham Bell
'Criticism, that fine flower of personal expression in the garden of letters'.. Joseph Conrad
'I felt my mother about the place. I don't think she haunts me, but I wouldn't put it past her.'.. Julie Walters
'I think we have all experienced passion that is not in any sense reasonable.'.. Stephen Fry
'The world is like a grand staircase, some are going up and some are going down.'.. Samuel Johnson
'Love is staying up all night with a sick child - or a healthy adult.'.. David Frost
'Alas! they had been friends in youth; but whispering tongues can poison truth.'.. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
'I can resist everything except temptation.'.. Oscar Wilde
'Those who don't believe in magic will never find it'.. Roald Dahl
'The important thing is to know how to take all things quietly.'.. Michael Faraday
'For a creative writer possession of the "truth" is less important than emotional sincerity'.. George Orwell
'An asylum for the sane would be empty in America.'.. George Bernard Shaw
'The mind that is wise mourns less for what age takes away; than what it leaves behind.'.. William Wordsworth
'If I could I would always work in silence and obscurity, and let my efforts be known by their results.'.. Emily Bronte
'A man may be so much of everything that he is nothing of anything.'.. Samuel Johnson
'Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.'.. John Locke
'The stars, that nature hung in heaven, and filled their lamps with everlasting oil, give due light to the misled and lonely traveller'.. John Milton
'Fathers should be neither seen nor heard. That is the only proper basis for family life'.. Oscar Wilde
'The human species, according to the best theory I can form of it, is composed of two distinct races, the men who borrow and the men who lend.'.. Charles Lamb
'I spent a lot of money on booze, birds and fast cars. The rest I just squandered.'.. George Best
'I wonder if anyone will ever know the emptiness of my life. Personal Diary -- Last entry "Oh what's the point?"'.. Kenneth Williams
'You only require two things in life: your sanity and your wife.'.. Tony Blair
'A woman, especially, if she have the misfortune of knowing anything, should conceal it as well as she can'.. Jane Austen
'Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children.'.. George Bernard Shaw
'Paradise Lost is a book that, once put down, is very hard to pick up again.'.. Samuel Johnson