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Famous British Quotes
'An original idea. That can't be too hard. The library must be full of them.'.. Stephen Fry
'He that will enjoy the brightness of sunshine, must quit the coolness of the shade'.. Samuel Johnson
'I felt my mother about the place. I don't think she haunts me, but I wouldn't put it past her.'.. Julie Walters
'It is with words as with sunbeams - the more they are condensed, the deeper they burn'.. Robert Southey
'That we must all die, we always knew; I wish I had remembered it sooner.'.. Samuel Johnson
'Fortitude is the marshal of thought, the armor of the will, and the fort of reason.'.. Sir Francis Bacon
'Three minutes thought would suffice to sort this out but thought is irksome and three minutes is a long time'.. A E Housman
'One half of the world cannot understand the other halfs pleasures'.. Jane Austen
'Of all acts of man repentance is the most divine. The greatest of all faults is to be conscious of none'.. Thomas Carlyle
'Be thine own palace, or the world's thy jail.'.. John Donne
'The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age, which mean never losing your enthusiasm.'.. Aldous Huxley
'Immortality is really desirable, I guess. In terms of images, anyway.'.. Damien Hirst
'One man's wage increase is another man's price increase.'.. Harold Wilson
'If they make it illegal to wear the veil at work, bee keepers are going to be furious'.. Milton Jones
'It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend.'.. John Dryden
'Illusion is the first of all pleasures.'.. Oscar Wilde
'We are not just here to manage capitalism but to change society and to define its finer values'.. Tony Benn
'Memorial services are the cocktail parties of the geriatric set.'.. Harold Macmillan
'I went out with this girl the other night, she wore this real slinky number...She looked great going down the stairs'.. Milton Jones
'The British tourist is always happy abroad as long as the natives are waiters'.. Robert Morley
'Man is the creature of circumstances.'.. Robert Owen
'Let not England forget her precedence of teaching nations how to live'.. John Milton
'Do not allow to slip away from you freedoms the people who came before you won with such hard knocks.'.. D H Lawrence
'When a thing's done, it's done, and if it's not done right, do it differently next time.'.. Arthur Ransome
'As people are walking all the time, in the same spot, a path appears.'.. John Locke
'Every saint has a past and every sinner has a future.'.. Oscar Wilde
'Facts are to the mind what food is to the body.'.. Edmund Burke
'Despair is a narcotic. It lulls the mind into indifference.'.. Charlie Chaplin
'There are two freedoms - the false, where a man is free to do what he likes; the true, where he is free to do what he ought.'.. Charles Kingsley
'Genius at first is little more than a great capacity for receiving discipline'.. George Eliot