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Famous British Quotes
'We build too many walls and not enough bridges.'.. Isaac Newton
'Each generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it'.. George Orwell
'There are two freedoms - the false, where a man is free to do what he likes; the true, where he is free to do what he ought.'.. Charles Kingsley
'Books like friends, should be few and well-chosen.'.. Samuel Johnson
'Nothing can be beautiful which is not true.'.. John Ruskin
'In heaven an angel is nobody in particular.'.. George Bernard Shaw
'The fashionable woman wears clothes. The clothes don't wear her.'.. Mary Quant
'Motion is tranquility.'.. Stirling Moss
'Time you enjoy wasting, was not wasted.'.. John Lennon
'You don't have to be the Dalai Lama to tell people that life's about change'.. John Cleese
'A room without books is like a body without a soul.'.. GK Chesterton
'I'm a holy man minus the holiness.'.. E M Forster
'To myself I am only a child playing on the beach, while vast oceans of truth lie undiscovered before me'.. Isaac Newton
'Gentleman do not throw wine at ladies. They pour it over them'.. Auberon Waugh
'If all the economists were laid end to end, they'd never reach a conclusion'.. George Bernard Shaw
'Never forget that only dead fish swim with the stream.'.. Malcolm Muggeridge
'I'm all in favour of free expression provided it's kept rigidly under control.'.. Alan Bennett
'Always laugh when you can. It is cheap medicine.'.. Lord Byron
'We grow small trying to be great.'.. David Hockney
'Prudence is a rich, ugly, old maid courted by incapacity.'.. William Blake
'Everything government touches turns to crap.'.. Ringo Starr
'We murdered them 0-0.'.. Bill Shankly
'Laziness has become the chief characteristic of journalism, displacing incompetence.'.. Sir Kingsley Amis
'Women want love to be a novel, men a short story.'.. Daphne du Maurier
'There is much to be said for failure. It is much more interesting than success.'.. Max Beerbohm
'I'm an optimist, but an optimist who carries a raincoat.'.. Harold Wilson
'I could not live in a country so miserable as to possess no castles'.. John Ruskin
'People who get through life dependent on other people's possessions are always the first to lecture you on how little possessions count.'.. Ben Elton
'Man is nature's sole mistake.'.. W S Gilbert
'Silence is the most perfect expression of scorn.'.. George Bernard Shaw