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Famous British Quotes
'Love is not love that alters when it alteration finds.'.. William Shakespeare
'Having children is like having a bowling alley installed in your brain'.. Alan Bleasdale
'Love-making is an art which must be studied.'.. Ivor Novello
'The creative habit is like a drug. The particular obsession changes, but the excitement, the thrill of your creation lasts'.. Henry Moore
'Our doubts are traitors and make us lose the good we oft might win by fearing to attempt.'.. William Shakespeare
'For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbors and laugh at them in our turn?'.. Jane Austen
'Remember that the most beautiful things in the world are the most useless; peacocks and lilies for instance'.. John Ruskin
'Discretion is the perfection of reason, and a guide to us in all the duties of life.'.. Walter Scott
'It is the test of a good religion whether you can joke about it.'.. GK Chesterton
'Nurture your minds with great thoughts. To believe in the heroic makes heroes'.. Benjamin Disraeli
'The most conservative man in this world is the British trade unionist when you want to change him.'.. Ernest Bevin
'Good sense about trivialities is better than nonsense about things that matter'.. Max Beerbohm
'I became one of the Stately Homos of England'.. Quentin Crisp
'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
'Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.'.. Rudyard Kipling
'A precedent embalms a principle.'.. Benjamin Disraeli
'A cynic is a man who knows the price of everything but the value of nothing'.. Oscar Wilde
'I am a lover of truth, a worshipper of freedom, a celebrant at the altar of language and purity and tolerance.'.. Stephen Fry
'Feelings are like chemicals, the more you analyze them the worse they smell.'.. Charles Kingsley
'Compromise is the best and cheapest lawyer.'.. Robert Louis Stevenson
'The greatest man is he who forms the taste of a nation; the next greatest is he who corrupts it.'.. Joshua Reynolds
'Humiliation is the beginning of sanctification.'.. John Donne
'A man, as a general rule, owes very little to what he is born with - a man is what he makes of himself'.. Alexander Graham Bell
'It's a poor sort of memory that only works backwards.'.. Lewis Carroll
'God gave us memory so that we might have roses in December.'.. J M Barrie
'The four characteristics of humanism are curiosity, a free mind, belief in good taste, and belief in the human race.'.. E M Forster
'In the end, everything is a gag.'.. Charlie Chaplin
'Talking is the disease of age.'.. Ben Jonson
'I think that making love is the best form of exercise.'.. Cary Grant
'If we do not maintain justice, justice will not maintain us.'.. Sir Francis Bacon