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Famous British Quotes
'Silence is as deep as eternity, speech a shallow as time.'.. Thomas Carlyle
'I think fidelity is a good idea - now that I cant walk'.. Sir John Mortimer
'Life appears to me too short to be spent in nursing animosity, or registering wrongs.'.. Charlotte Bronte
'Above our life we love a steadfast friend.'.. Christopher Marlowe
'Advice is like snow - the softer it falls, the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper in sinks into the mind.'.. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
'Pleasure is none, if not diversified.'.. John Donne
'We are stripped bare by the curse of plenty.'.. Winston Churchill
'All that I desire to point out is the general principle that life imitates art far more than art imitates life'.. Oscar Wilde
'Gossip is what no one claims to like, but everybody enjoys.'.. Joseph Conrad
'One sees great things from the valley; only small things from the peak.'.. GK Chesterton
'One of the things being in politics has taught me is that men are not a reasoned or reasonable sex'.. Margaret Thatcher
'Eternity's a terrible thought. I mean, where's it all going to end?'.. Sir Tom Stoppard
'Dancing is a perpendicular expression of a horizontal desire.'.. George Bernard Shaw
'My biggest regret in life is saving David Frost from drowning'.. Peter Cook
'Cities, like cats, will reveal themselves at night.'.. Rupert Brooke
'I've always said there's a place for the press but they haven't dug it yet.'.. Tommy Docherty
'It is very good advice to believe only what an artist does, rather than what he says about his work.'.. David Hockney
'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
'Oh, to be in England now that April's there.'.. Robert Browning
'If you want to eat well in England, eat three breakfasts.'.. Somerset Maugham
'The greatest tragedy in mankind's entire history may be the hijacking of morality by religion'.. Arthur C Clarke
'I have a memory like an elephant. In fact, elephants often consult me.'.. Noel Coward
'Rigid, the skeleton of habit alone upholds the human frame.'.. Virginia Woolf
'What really matters is what you do with what you have.'.. H G Wells
'The hardest part of sailing round the world? Stepping on dry land'.. Ellen MacArthur
'One sometimes finds what one is not looking for.'.. Alexander Fleming
'He who knows only his own side of the case knows little of that.'.. John Stuart Mill
'Great things are done when men and mountains meet.'.. William Blake
'I have always thought the actions of men the best interpreters of their thoughts.'.. John Locke
'Go as far as you can see; when you get there you'll be able to see farther.'.. Thomas Carlyle