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Famous British Quotes
'It is not good to cross the bridge before you get to it.'.. Judi Dench
'I am afraid we must make the world honest before we can honestly say to our children that honesty is the best policy'.. George Bernard Shaw
'The fashionable woman wears clothes. The clothes don't wear her.'.. Mary Quant
'In general, pride is at the bottom of all great mistakes.'.. John Ruskin
'I have never acted on a press release or gone out to dinner with a PR. I think PR is a ridiculous job. They are the headlice of civilisation'.. A A Gill
'For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbors and laugh at them in our turn?'.. Jane Austen
'Exhilaration is that feeling you get just after a great idea hits you, and just before you realize what`s wrong with it.'.. Rex Harrison
'At the side of the everlasting why, is a yes, and a yes, and a yes.'.. E M Forster
'Fashion is what you adopt when you dont know who you are'.. Quentin Crisp
'In every parting there is an image of death.'.. George Eliot
'Theoretical principals must sometimes give way for the sake of practical advantages.'.. William Pitt (The Younger)
'It is justice, not charity, that is wanting in the world.'.. Mary Shelley
'Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go.'.. Oscar Wilde
'From quiet homes and first beginning, out to the undiscovered ends, there's nothing worth the wear of winning, but laughter and the love of friends'.. Hilaire Belloc
'Somebody said to me, 'But the Beatles were anti-materialistic.' That's a huge myth. John and I literally used to sit down and say, 'Now, let's write a swimming pool.''.. Paul McCartney
'Experience teaches only the teachable.'.. Aldous Huxley
'There is always time for failure.'.. Sir John Mortimer
'Credit is a system whereby a person who can not pay gets another person who can not pay to guarantee that he can pay.'.. Charles Dickens
'Sometimes we stare so long at a door that is closing that we see too late the one that is open.'.. Alexander Graham Bell
'Silence is the most perfect expression of scorn.'.. George Bernard Shaw
'If someone's dumb enough to offer me a million dollars to make a picture, I'm certainly not dumb enough to turn it down.'.. Elizabeth Taylor
'The one phrase imperative to know in any foreign language is My friend will pay'.. Alan Whicker
'Life is far too important a thing ever to talk seriously about.'.. Oscar Wilde
'Motion is tranquility.'.. Stirling Moss
'I was court-martialled in my absence, and sentenced to death in my absence, so I said they could shoot me in my absence.'.. Thomas Hardy
'British People have a socialist mind and a conservative heart'.. Albert Finney
'A man's as old as he's feeling. A woman as old as she looks.'.. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
'Fathers should be neither seen nor heard. That is the only proper basis for family life'.. Oscar Wilde
'Paganism is infectious, more infectious than diphtheria or piety.'.. E M Forster
'Life is a tragedy when seen in close-up, but a comedy in long-shot.'.. Charlie Chaplin