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Famous British Quotes
'Royalty is the gold teeth in a mouth full of decay'.. John Osborne
'Most human beings have an infinite capacity for taking things for granted'.. Aldous Huxley
'O, what a tangled web we weave when first we practise to deceive!'.. Walter Scott
'The most romantic, if not the most beautiful, place in Scotland'.. Walter Scott
'There are no such things as Flowers there are only gladdened Leaves.'.. John Ruskin
'One of the greatest problems of our time is that many are schooled but few are educated'.. Thomas More
'How you think when you lose determines how long it will be until you win'.. GK Chesterton
'There's no such thing as old age, there is only sorrow'.. Fay Weldon
'Probably the battle of Waterloo was won on the playing-fields of Eton, but the opening battles of all subsequent wars have been lost there'.. George Orwell
'One's life has many compartments.'.. Harold Pinter
'The British tourist is always happy abroad as long as the natives are waiters'.. Robert Morley
'Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant'.. Robert Louis Stevenson
'Paradise Lost is a book that, once put down, is very hard to pick up again.'.. Samuel Johnson
'The land of my fathers. My fathers can have it.'.. Dylan Thomas
'I'd the upbringing a nun would envy. Until I was fifteen I was more familiar with Africa than my own body'.. Joe Orton
'Most people do not pray; they only beg.'.. George Bernard Shaw
'You shall judge a man by his foes as well as by his friends.'.. Joseph Conrad
'The greatest man is he who forms the taste of a nation; the next greatest is he who corrupts it.'.. Joshua Reynolds
'It was easier to conquer it than to know what to do with it.'.. Horace Walpole
'It is a farce to call any being virtuous whose virtues do not result from the exercise of it's own reason'.. Mary Shelley
'And the White Album is important to me for different reasons. One - I had left the band on the White Album.'.. Ringo Starr
'It takes little talent to see what lies under one's nose, a good deal to know in what direction to point that organ.'.. W H Auden
'Advertising is legalized lying.'.. H G Wells
'An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered'.. GK Chesterton
'Marriage: A friendship recognized by the police.'.. Robert Louis Stevenson
'Friendship is certainly the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love'.. Jane Austen
'No man was ever so completely skilled in the conduct of life, as not to receive new information from age and experience.'.. Jonathan Swift
'We build too many walls and not enough bridges.'.. Isaac Newton
'I can resist everything except temptation.'.. Oscar Wilde
'You and I come by road or rail, but economists travel on infrastructure'.. Margaret Thatcher