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Famous British Quotes
'Don't talk to me about a man's being able to talk sense; everyone can talk sense. Can he talk nonsense?'.. William Pitt (The Younger)
'There is a wisdom of the head, and a wisdom of the heart.'.. Charles Dickens
'Our greatest glory consists not in never failing, but in rising every time we fall'.. Oliver Goldsmith
'But there, everything has its drawbacks, as the man said when his mother-in-law died, and they came down upon him for the funeral expenses'.. Jerome K Jerome
'Islington is about as far as you can get from London without needing yellow-fever jabs'.. A A Gill
'Life isn't black and white. It's a million gray areas, don't you find?'.. Ridley Scott
'The Beduin could not look for God within him: he was too sure that he was within God.'.. T E Lawrence
'Electric communication will never be a substitute for the face of someone who with their soul encourages another person to be brave and true.'.. Charles Dickens
'Dare to be honest and fear no labour.'.. Robert Burns
'The news is always bad, even when it sounds good'.. Aldous Huxley
'It's an honor to be on the same network that gave us 'The Sopranos,' ... They made me an offer I couldn't refuse.'.. Ricky Gervais
'Public opinion is a compound of folly, weakness, prejudice, wrong feeling, right feeling, obstinacy, and newspaper paragraphs'.. Robert Peel
'The years between fifty and seventy are the hardest. You are always being asked to do things, and yet you are not decrepit enough to turn them down.'.. George Eliot
'Autumn wins you best by this its mute appeal to sympathy for its decay.'.. Robert Browning
'That we must all die, we always knew; I wish I had remembered it sooner.'.. Samuel Johnson
'Commerce changes the fate and genius of nations.'.. Thomas Gray
'Progress everywhere today does seem to come so very heavily disguised as Chaos'.. Joyce Grenfell
'All great truths begin as blasphemies.'.. George Bernard Shaw
'It is the nature of all greatness not to be exact.'.. Edmund Burke
'Most sets of values would give rise to universes that, although they might be very beautiful, would contain no one able to wonder at that beauty.'.. Stephen Hawking
'People do not believe lies because they have to, but because they want to'.. Malcolm Muggeridge
'An author who speaks about their own books is almost as bad as a mother who speaks about her own children.'.. Benjamin Disraeli
'Punctuality is the virtue of the bored.'.. Evelyn Waugh
'Having one child makes you a parent; having two you are a referee.'.. David Frost
'I am in that temper that if I were under water I would scarcely kick to come to the top'.. John Keats
'A man may be so much of everything that he is nothing of anything.'.. Samuel Johnson
'A painter must think of everything he sees as being there entirely for his own use and pleasure.'.. Lucien Freud
''Hearty Homely loving Hertford''.. Charles Lamb
'Gentlemen, when the enemy is committed to a mistake we must not interrupt him too soon'.. Horatio Nelson
'WH Auden didnt love God, he just fancied him'.. Stephen Spender