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Famous British Quotes
'Dancing is the poetry of the foot.'.. John Dryden
'In general, pride is at the bottom of all great mistakes.'.. John Ruskin
'If you are ever in doubt as to whether to kiss a pretty girl, always give her the benefit of the doubt.'.. Thomas Carlyle
'Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.'.. H G Wells
'Like most of those who study history, he (Napoleon III) learned from the mistakes of the past how to make new ones.'.. A J P Taylor
'We have forty million reasons for failure, but not a single excuse.'.. Rudyard Kipling
'Art is the most passionate orgy within man's grasp.'.. John Donne
'To enjoy freedom we have to control ourselves.'.. Virginia Woolf
'Grey towers of Durham, yet well I loved thy mixed and massive piles'.. Walter Scott
'I am not young enough to know everything.'.. J M Barrie
'Subtlety may deceive you; integrity never will.'.. Oliver Cromwell
'Animals are my friends... and I don't eat my friends.'.. George Bernard Shaw
'The more you understand something, I think the more you can enjoy it.'.. Ricky Gervais
'Anyone can tell the truth, but only very few of us can make epigrams.'.. Somerset Maugham
'Men of power have no time to read; yet the men who do not read are unfit for power'.. Michael Foot
'A man who trusts nobody is apt to be the kind of man nobody trusts'.. Harold Macmillan
'I think we have all experienced passion that is not in any sense reasonable.'.. Stephen Fry
'I am prepared to go anywhere, provided it be forward.'.. David Livingstone
'The truth that is suppressed by friends is the readiest weapon of the enemy.'.. Robert Louis Stevenson
'I can't stand innuendo. When I see one in a script I whip it out immediately'.. Kenneth Williams
'Oh, 'tis love, 'tis love that makes the world go round.'.. Lewis Carroll
'The worst of revolutions is a restoration'.. Charles James Fox
'Every man at the bottom of his heart believes that he is a born detective.'.. John Buchan
'A belief is like a guillotine, just as heavy, just as light.'.. David Hockney
'It's difficult isn't it, when you're in a Mosque and everyone's praying and you really enjoy leapfrog'.. Milton Jones
'I see music as one language. If one musical form eats its own tail, it dies. So it needs to be a mongrel, it needs to be hybridised.'.. Sting
'The main facts in human life are five: birth, food, sleep, love and death'.. E M Forster
'It is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done; it is a far, far better rest that I go to, than I have ever known.'.. Charles Dickens
'You will find in politics that you are much exposed to the attribution of false motive. Never complain and never explain'.. Stanley Baldwin
'The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none.'.. Thomas Carlyle