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Famous British Quotes
'Vices are sometimes only virtues carried to excess!'.. Charles Dickens
'Politics is the ability to foretell what is going to happen tomorrow, next week, next month and next year. And to have the ability afterwards to explain why it didn't happen.'.. Winston Churchill
'One of the most important days of my life was when I learned to ride a bicycle'.. Michael Palin
'The difference between a bad artist and a good one is: the bad artist seems to copy a great deal; the good one really does'.. William Blake
'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
'If what you have done is unjust, you have not succeeded.'.. Thomas Carlyle
'I have long held the view that if a Vet cannot catch his patient there is not much to worry about'.. James Herriot
'Men will pay large sums to whores for telling them they are not bores.'.. W H Auden
'Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing.'.. Oscar Wilde
'If I were compelled to choose between living in west bromwich or florence I would make straight for west bromwich'.. J B Priestley
'I like long walks, especially when they are taken by people who annoy me.'.. Noel Coward
'Progress is not an illusion, it happens, but it is slow and invariably disappointing'.. George Orwell
'Swansea - Ugh, Lovely town'.. Dylan Thomas
'Make yourself an honest man, and then you may be sure there is one less rascal in the world'.. Thomas Carlyle
'The worst of revolutions is a restoration'.. Charles James Fox
'Beware of snobbery; it is the unwelcome recognition of one's own past failings'.. Cary Grant
'The hardest part of sailing round the world? Stepping on dry land'.. Ellen MacArthur
'The difference between England and the USA is that when we have a world eries we invite other countries to participate'.. John Cleese
'A man's friendships are one of the best measures of his worth.'.. Charles Darwin
'I will show you fear in a handful of dust.'.. T S Eliot
'A person is a fool to become a writer. His only compensation is absolute freedom'.. Roald Dahl
'A man's as old as he's feeling. A woman as old as she looks.'.. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
'Our doubts are traitors and make us lose the good we oft might win by fearing to attempt.'.. William Shakespeare
'It is always the best policy to speak the truth, unless, of course, you are an exceptionally good lia'.. Jerome K Jerome
'Life’s never a postcard of life, is it? It never feels like how you’d want it to look'.. Russell Brand
'Nothing that is morally wrong can be politically right.'.. W E Gladstone
'He who praises everybody, praises nobody.'.. Samuel Johnson
'The first condition of understanding a foreign country is to smell it.'.. Rudyard Kipling
'People who can't be witty exert themselves to be devout and affectionate.'.. George Eliot
'The first and simplest emotion which we discover in the human mind, is curiosity.'.. Edmund Burke