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Famous British Quotes
'It is not good to cross the bridge before you get to it.'.. Judi Dench
'I am determined that my children shall be brought up in their father's religion, if they can find out what it is.'.. Charles Lamb
'Unless we remember we cannot understand.'.. E M Forster
'I am not struck so much by the diversity of testimony as by the many-sidedness of truth.'.. Stanley Baldwin
''Tis the last rose of summer Left blooming alone; All her lovely companions Are faded and gone.'.. Thomas More
'I am not conceited. It is just that I have a fondness for the good things in life and I happen to be one of them'.. Kenneth Williams
'All autobiography is self-indulgent.'.. Daphne du Maurier
'The greatest man is he who forms the taste of a nation; the next greatest is he who corrupts it.'.. Joshua Reynolds
'Laugharne - timeless, beautiful, barmy town'.. Dylan Thomas
'Progress is not an illusion, it happens, but it is slow and invariably disappointing'.. George Orwell
'Men! The only animal in the world to fear.'.. D H Lawrence
'I could not live in a country so miserable as to possess no castles'.. John Ruskin
'I do not know which makes a man more conservative - to know nothing but the present, or nothing but the past'.. John Maynard Keynes
'Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.'.. Oscar Wilde
'Man has almost constant occasion for the help of his brethren, and it is in vain for him to expect it from their benevolence only.'.. Adam Smith
'Let sleeping dogs lie.'.. Robert Walpole
'This is the first age that's ever paid much attention to the future, which is a little ironic since we may not have one'.. Arthur C Clarke
'England and America are two countries separated by the same language.'.. George Bernard Shaw
'A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of.'.. Jane Austen
'There is frequently more to be learned from the unexpected questions of a child than the discourses of men'.. John Locke
'I count religion but a childish toy, and hold there is no sin but ignorance.'.. Christopher Marlowe
'If the best man's faults were written on his forehead, he would draw his hat over his eyes.'.. Thomas Gray
'When a true genius appears, you can know him by this sign: that all the dunces are in a confederacy against him.'.. Jonathan Swift
'You had better have one King than five hundred'.. Charles II
'The more we study the more we discover our ignorance.'.. Percy Bysshe Shelley
'Learn from your dreams what you lack.'.. W H Auden
'Better never than late.'.. George Bernard Shaw
'The kind of people who always go on about whether a thing is in good taste invariably have very bad taste'.. Joe Orton
'No one rises so high as he who knows not whither he is going.'.. Oliver Cromwell
'If Galileo had said in verse that the world moved, the inquisition might have let him alone'.. Thomas Hardy