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Famous British Quotes
'The greatest man is he who forms the taste of a nation; the next greatest is he who corrupts it.'.. Joshua Reynolds
'You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it.'.. Margaret Thatcher
'Remember that you are an Englishman, and have consequently won first prize in the lottery of life.'.. Cecil Rhodes
'A cricketer's life is a life of splendid freedom, healthy effort, endless variety, and delightful good fellowship'.. W G Grace
'Art is the most passionate orgy within man's grasp.'.. John Donne
'Truth emerges more readily from error than from confusion.'.. Sir Francis Bacon
'A loving heart is the truest wisdom.'.. Charles Dickens
'A cynic is a man who knows the price of everything but the value of nothing'.. Oscar Wilde
'If you've got a big mouth and you're controversial, you're going to get attention.'.. Simon Cowell
'Every great person is always being helped by everybody; for their gift is to get good out of all things and all persons.'.. John Ruskin
'Laziness has become the chief characteristic of journalism, displacing incompetence.'.. Sir Kingsley Amis
'It is widely held that too much wine will dull a man's desire. Indeed it will in a dull man'.. John Osborne
'He that loves to be flattered is worthy o' the flatterer.'.. William Shakespeare
'Boldness is a mask for fear, however great.'.. John Dryden
'Everyone seems to fear dying alone. I have never understood this - who wants to die and be polite at the same time'.. Quentin Crisp
'Look twice before you leap.'.. Charlotte Bronte
'Feelings are like chemicals, the more you analyze them the worse they smell.'.. Charles Kingsley
'Think of the man who first tasted German Sausage'.. Jerome K Jerome
'Everything we do has consequences.'.. Dennis Potter
'When a thing's done, it's done, and if it's not done right, do it differently next time.'.. Arthur Ransome
'A real book is not one that we read, but one that reads us.'.. W H Auden
'Suspense is worse than disappointment.'.. Robert Burns
'Never forget that only dead fish swim with the stream.'.. Malcolm Muggeridge
'Sometimes the first duty of intelligent men is the restatement of the obvious'.. George Orwell
'The highest possible stage in moral culture is when we recognize that we ought to control our thoughts.'.. Charles Darwin
'Things which do not require effort of some sort are seldom worth having'.. Ivor Novello
'If you are ever in doubt as to whether to kiss a pretty girl, always give her the benefit of the doubt.'.. Thomas Carlyle
'If you can't annoy somebody, there's little point in writing.'.. Sir Kingsley Amis
'Time you enjoy wasting, was not wasted.'.. John Lennon
'Here is my first principle of foreign policy: good government at home'.. W E Gladstone