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Famous British Quotes
'We are a small country with a large sense of its own importance'.. David Walliams
'The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost.'.. GK Chesterton
'We started off trying to set up a small anarchist community, but people wouldn't obey the rules.'.. Alan Bennett
'Dangerous foreigners begin at Calais and dont stop until you get to Bombay where they play cricket and speak English'.. Clement Attlee
'There are grounds for cautious optimism that we may now be near the end of the search for the ultimate laws of nature.'.. Stephen Hawking
'Love is staying up all night with a sick child - or a healthy adult.'.. David Frost
'Wonders will never cease.'.. David Garrick
'Consistency is the last refuge of the unimaginative.'.. Oscar Wilde
'I dont hold with abroad and think foreigners speak English when our backs are turned'.. Quentin Crisp
'People who can't be witty exert themselves to be devout and affectionate.'.. George Eliot
'There are two things no man will admit he cannot do well: drive and make love.'.. Stirling Moss
'Pride the first peer and president of hell.'.. Daniel Defoe
'What Youth deemed crystal, Age finds out was dew.'.. Robert Browning
'Saw a wedding in the church. It was strange to see what delight we married people have to see these poor fools decoyed into our condition.'.. Samuel Pepys
'We always love those who admire us; we do not always love those whom we admire.'.. Rupert Brooke
'A little sincerity is a dangerous thing, and a great deal of it is absolutely fatal'.. Oscar Wilde
'An explanation of cause is not a justification by reason'.. C S Lewis
'There might be 1 finger on the button, but there will be 15 fingers on the safety catch'.. Harold Macmillan
'All a poet can do today is warn.'.. Wilfred Owen
'It is in men as in soils where sometimes there is a vein of gold which the owner knows not'.. Jonathan Swift
'Only a mediocre person is always at his best.'.. Somerset Maugham
'There can be no liberty unless there is economic liberty.'.. Margaret Thatcher
'Everybody loves you when you're six foot in the ground.'.. John Lennon
'If you had a face like mine, you'd punch me right on the nose, and I'm just the fella to do it.'.. Stan Laurel
'Above our life we love a steadfast friend.'.. Christopher Marlowe
'Could we teach taste or genius by rules, they would be no longer taste and genius'.. Joshua Reynolds
'Science is the great antidote to the poison of enthusiasm and superstition.'.. Adam Smith
'Progress everywhere today does seem to come so very heavily disguised as Chaos'.. Joyce Grenfell
'When I am dead, I hope it may be said: His sins were scarlet, but his books were read'.. Hilaire Belloc
'One of the most important days of my life was when I learned to ride a bicycle'.. Michael Palin