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Famous British Quotes
'It is only in the world of objects that we have time and space and selves.'.. T S Eliot
'People say you should read your criticism because it will make you a better person but it doesn't. It just makes you a sad bitter old showbiz nightmare'.. Jo Brand
'Credulity is the man's weakness, but the child's strength.'.. Charles Lamb
'There is a wisdom of the head, and a wisdom of the heart.'.. Charles Dickens
'A precedent embalms a principle.'.. Benjamin Disraeli
'Although prepared for martyrdom, I preferred that it be postponed.'.. Winston Churchill
'Mountains are the beginning and the end of all natural scenery.'.. John Ruskin
'Nobody ever died of laughter.'.. Max Beerbohm
'Though lovers be lost love shall not.'.. Dylan Thomas
'Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable'.. Sir Francis Bacon
'Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same.'.. Oscar Wilde
'The light, that lies In woman's eyes, Has been my heart's undoing.'.. Thomas More
'The avoidance of taxes is the only intellectual pursuit that still carries any reward'.. John Maynard Keynes
'If I could I would always work in silence and obscurity, and let my efforts be known by their results.'.. Emily Bronte
'A gentleman is one who puts more into the world than he takes out'.. George Bernard Shaw
'Biologically speaking, if something bites you it's more likely to be female.'.. Desmond Morris
'Don't clap too hard - it's a very old building.'.. John Osborne
'It's all right letting yourself go, as long as you can get yourself back.'.. Mick Jagger
'Concentrate all your thoughts upon the work at hand. The sun's rays do not burn until brought to a focus.'.. Alexander Graham Bell
'A wonderful fact to reflect upon, that every human creature is constituted to be that profound secret and mystery to every other.'.. Charles Dickens
'There is frequently more to be learned from the unexpected questions of a child than the discourses of men'.. John Locke
'A Royal Commission is a broody hen sitting on a china egg.'.. Michael Foot
'Ambition - it is the last infirmity of noble minds.'.. J M Barrie
'In all intellectual debates, both sides tend to be correct in what they affirm, and wrong in what they deny'.. John Stuart Mill
'I hate the word `hate`.'.. Peter Cushing
'Fashion is what you adopt when you dont know who you are'.. Quentin Crisp
'A poet can survive everything but a misprint.'.. Oscar Wilde
'Ending a sentence with a preposition is something up with which I will not put.'.. Winston Churchill
'Love is only a dirty trick played on us to achieve continuation of the species.'.. Somerset Maugham
'Henley is the Venice of the South'.. Boris Johnson