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Famous British Quotes
'I shouldn't be saying this - high treason, really - but I sometimes wonder if Americans aren't fooled by our accent into detecting brilliance that may not really be there'.. Stephen Fry
'What though youth gave love and roses, Age still leaves us friends and wine.'.. Thomas More
''Not many sounds in life exceed in interest an unexpected knock at the door''.. Charles Lamb
'No one can read with profit that which he cannot learn to read with pleasure.'.. Thomas Hardy
'I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat.'.. Winston Churchill
'Our main business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand'.. Thomas Carlyle
'At night, when the curtains are drawn and the fire flickers, my books attain a collective dignity.'.. E M Forster
'One of the greatest problems of our time is that many are schooled but few are educated'.. Thomas More
'The difference between tax avoidance and tax evasion is the thickness of a prison wall.'.. Denis Healey
'A little sincerity is a dangerous thing, and a great deal of it is absolutely fatal'.. Oscar Wilde
'At fifty everyone has the face he deserves.'.. George Orwell
'TV is as injurious to the soul as fast food is to the body'.. Quentin Crisp
'Love is love's reward.'.. John Dryden
'I can resist everything except temptation.'.. Oscar Wilde
'It's all right letting yourself go, as long as you can get yourself back.'.. Mick Jagger
'The difference between England and the USA is that when we have a world eries we invite other countries to participate'.. John Cleese
'Architecture aims at Eternity.'.. Christopher Wren
'Patriotism is an instant reaction that fades away when the war starts'.. Mick Jagger
'It may be the cock that crows, but it is the hen that lays the eggs.'.. Margaret Thatcher
'Well may your heart believe the truths I tell; 'Tis virtue makes the bliss, where'er we dwell.'.. Wilkie Collins
'A man that hoards up riches and enjoys them not, is like an ass that carries gold and eats thistles'.. Richard Burton
'Tolerance is another word for indifference.'.. Somerset Maugham
'I got nasty habits; I take tea at three.'.. Mick Jagger
'No legacy is so rich as honesty.'.. William Shakespeare
'Lawyers, I suppose, were children once.'.. Charles Lamb
'Art, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere.'.. GK Chesterton
'A man who trusts nobody is apt to be the kind of man nobody trusts'.. Harold Macmillan
'When people tell you how young you look, they are telling you how old you are.'.. Cary Grant
'The one phrase imperative to know in any foreign language is My friend will pay'.. Alan Whicker
'Theres only one thing worse than an Estate Agent but that can be safely lanced, drained and surgically dressed.'.. Stephen Fry