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Famous British Quotes
'I wouldn't mind seeing China if I could come back the same day.'.. Philip Larkin
'As far as I am concerned the paint is the person. I want it to work for me just as flesh does.'.. Lucien Freud
'Heresies are experiments in man's unsatisfied search for truth.'.. H G Wells
'All sympathy not consistent with acknowledged virtue is but disguised selfishness'.. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
'The sort of poetry I seek resides in objects man can't touch.'.. E M Forster
'Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few.'.. Winston Churchill
'For truth is always strange; stranger than fiction.'.. Lord Byron
'It is better to have a lion at the head of an army of sheep, than a sheep at the head of an army of lions'.. Daniel Defoe
'All autobiography is self-indulgent.'.. Daphne du Maurier
'The more we elaborate our means of communication, the less we communicate'.. J B Priestley
'The main object of religion is not to get a man into heaven, but to get heaven into him'.. Thomas Hardy
'I chose my wife, as she did her wedding gown, for qualities that would wear well'.. Oliver Goldsmith
'The overall impression from the British is that they love France but would prefer it if the French didn't live there'.. Sir John Mortimer
'Every harlot was a virgin once.'.. William Blake
'Be just before you are generous.'.. Richard Sheridan
'For all my education, accomplishments, and so called 'wisdom'... I can't fathom my own heart'.. Michael Caine
'No violent extreme endures.'.. Thomas Carlyle
'Our patience will achieve more than our force.'.. Edmund Burke
'If you have men who will only come if they know there is a good road, I don't want them. I want men who will come if there is no road at all.'.. David Livingstone
'When a man is wrapped up in himself, he makes a pretty small package'.. John Ruskin
'I don't ever blink, honestly.'.. Ridley Scott
'A man does not know what he is saying until he knows what he is not saying'.. GK Chesterton
'God not only plays dice, He also sometimes throws the dice where they cannot be seen.'.. Stephen Hawking
'If you aren't in over your head, how do you know how tall you are?'.. T S Eliot
'Every time you liberate a woman, you liberate a man'.. Emmeline Pankhurst
'Expectation is the root of all heartache.'.. William Shakespeare
'Never hold discussions with the monkey when the organ grinder is in the room.'.. Winston Churchill
'A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.'.. Douglas Adams
'I don't pretend we have all the answers. But the questions are certainly worth thinking about.'.. Arthur C Clarke
'There are hardly two things more peculiarly English than Welsh rarebit and Irish stew'.. GK Chesterton