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Famous British Quotes
'Life is nothing but a competition to be the criminal rather than the victim.'.. Bertrand Russell
'No man was ever so completely skilled in the conduct of life, as not to receive new information from age and experience.'.. Jonathan Swift
'A widespread taste for pornography means that nature is alerting us to some threat of extinction'.. James G Ballard
'Those who don't believe in magic will never find it'.. Roald Dahl
'Education: the inculcation of the incomprehensible into the indifferent by the incompetent'.. John Maynard Keynes
'A minute's success pays the failure of years.'.. Robert Browning
'The Welsh are all actors. It's only the bad ones who become professional.'.. Richard Burton
'Happiness is not a possession to be prized, it is a quality of thought, a state of mind.'.. Daphne du Maurier
'If what you have done is unjust, you have not succeeded.'.. Thomas Carlyle
'Europe's the mayonnaise, but America supplies the good old lobster.'.. D H Lawrence
'Authority has every reason to fear the skeptic, for authority can rarely survive in the face of doubt'.. Vita Sackville-West
'Errors are not in the art but in the artificers.'.. Isaac Newton
'Rock and roll doesn't necessarily mean a band. It doesn't mean a singer, and it doesn't mean a lyric, really. It's that question of trying to be immortal'.. Malcolm McLaren
'In politics, strangely enough, the best way to play your cards is to lay them face upwards on the table'.. H G Wells
'There are some things you can't share without ending up liking each other.'.. J K Rowling
'A critic is a man who knows the way but can't drive the car.'.. Kenneth Tynan
'To sentence a man of true genius, to the drudgery of a school is to put a racehorse on a treadmill'.. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
'Man is the creature of circumstances.'.. Robert Owen
'Genius not only diagnoses the situation but supplies the answers.'.. Robert Graves
'Music is the best means we have of digesting time.'.. W H Auden
'Our own heart, and not other men's opinions form our true honor.'.. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
'Ambition makes more trusty slaves than need.'.. Ben Jonson
'By indignities men come to dignities.'.. Sir Francis Bacon
'British People have a socialist mind and a conservative heart'.. Albert Finney
'It's all right letting yourself go, as long as you can get yourself back.'.. Mick Jagger
''Not many sounds in life exceed in interest an unexpected knock at the door''.. Charles Lamb
'Rolf Harris is a difficult man to hate but that shouldnt stop us trying'.. A A Gill
'Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference.'.. Winston Churchill
'If you carry your childhood with you, you never become older.'.. Sir Tom Stoppard
'Flattery corrupts both the receiver and the giver.'.. Edmund Burke