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Famous British Quotes
'Regrets are the natural property of grey hairs.'.. Charles Dickens
'A consistent soul believes in destiny, a capricious one in chance.'.. Benjamin Disraeli
'To generalize is to be an idiot.'.. William Blake
'I'm all in favour of free expression provided it's kept rigidly under control.'.. Alan Bennett
'England has always been disinclined to accept human nature.'.. E M Forster
'The marvelous thing about a joke with a double meaning is that it can only mean one thing'.. Ronnie Barker
'Nature never did betray the heart that loved her.'.. William Wordsworth
'My definition of an intellectual is someone who can listen to the William Tell Overture without thinking of the Lone Ranger.'.. Billy Connolly
'A yawn is a silent shout'.. GK Chesterton
'Having children is like having a bowling alley installed in your brain'.. Alan Bleasdale
'There are three rules for writing a novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are'.. Somerset Maugham
'If a farmer fills his barn with grain, he gets mice. If he leaves it empty, he gets actors'.. Walter Scott
'I am told that I talk in shorthand and then smudge it.'.. J R R Tolkien
'Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man'.. Sir Francis Bacon
'What Youth deemed crystal, Age finds out was dew.'.. Robert Browning
'Our patience will achieve more than our force.'.. Edmund Burke
'England is not all the world.'.. Mary, Queen of Scots
'I desire no future that will break the ties with the past.'.. George Eliot
'The more highly public life is organized the lower does its morality sink'.. E M Forster
'A lover without indiscretion is no lover at all.'.. Thomas Hardy
'Milford Haven - the finest port of Christendom'.. Horatio Nelson
'Critics! Those cut-throat bandits in the paths of fame.'.. Robert Burns
'Last night I dreamt I ate a ten pound marshmallow. When I woke up the pillow was gone.'.. Tommy Cooper
'The more we study the more we discover our ignorance.'.. Percy Bysshe Shelley
'All good things which exist are the fruits of originality.'.. John Stuart Mill
'New opinions are always suspected, and usually opposed, without anyother reason but because they are not already common.'.. John Locke
'Pain is no evil, unless it conquers us.'.. Charles Kingsley
'My opinion is that a poet should express the emotion of all the ages and the thought of his own.'.. Thomas Hardy
'Patriotism is an instant reaction that fades away when the war starts'.. Mick Jagger
'There is no sin but ignorance.'.. Christopher Marlowe