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Famous British Quotes
'You and I come by road or rail, but economists travel on infrastructure'.. Margaret Thatcher
'There's no use doing a kindness if you do it a day too late.'.. Charles Kingsley
'Reverence is fatal to literature.'.. E M Forster
'I have a fantasy where Ted Turner is elected president but refuses because he doesn't want to give up power.'.. Arthur C Clarke
'The stars, that nature hung in heaven, and filled their lamps with everlasting oil, give due light to the misled and lonely traveller'.. John Milton
'I am a lover of truth, a worshipper of freedom, a celebrant at the altar of language and purity and tolerance.'.. Stephen Fry
'Thank goodness I was never sent to school; it would have rubbed off some of the originality.'.. Beatrix Potter
'A man does not know what he is saying until he knows what he is not saying'.. GK Chesterton
'Thought is the parent of the deed.'.. Thomas Carlyle
'The only rule I have found to have any validity in writing is not to bore yourself.'.. Sir John Mortimer
'For several days after my first book was published, I carried it about in my pocket and took surreptitious peeps at it to make sure the ink had not faded.'.. J M Barrie
'Music is the best means we have of digesting time.'.. W H Auden
'As with the Christian religion, the worst advertisement for Socialism is its adherents'.. George Orwell
'Education: the inculcation of the incomprehensible into the indifferent by the incompetent'.. John Maynard Keynes
'Conviction is worthless unless it is converted into conduct.'.. Thomas Carlyle
'You may be as vicious about me as you please. You will only do me justice.'.. Richard Burton
'The trouble with British Rail passengers is that they think the railways are being run for their benefit'.. Jeremy Clarkson
'You owe it to us all to get on with what you're good at.'.. W H Auden
'For all right judgment of any man or things it is useful, nay, essential, to see his good qualities before pronouncing on his bad.'.. Thomas Carlyle
'Aim for the sky and you'll reach the ceiling. Aim for the ceiling and you'll stay on the floor.'.. Bill Shankly
'A room without books is like a body without a soul.'.. GK Chesterton
'Life is obstinate and clings closest where it is most hated.'.. Mary Shelley
'God has two dwellings; one in heaven, and the other in a meek and thankful heart.'.. Izaak Walton
'No one gossips about other people's secret virtues.'.. Bertrand Russell
'The only way of catching a train I have ever discovered is to miss the train before'.. GK Chesterton
'Flattery corrupts both the receiver and the giver.'.. Edmund Burke
'I am not a heavy drinker. I can sometimes go for hours without touching a drop.'.. Noel Coward
'Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught'.. Oscar Wilde
'I look upon every day to be lost, in which I do not make a new acquaintance'.. Samuel Johnson
'I can make a lord, but only God can make a gentleman.'.. James I