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Famous British Quotes
'Unless we remember we cannot understand.'.. E M Forster
'Soldiers are citizens of death's grey land, drawing no dividend from time's tomorrows'.. Siegfried Sassoon
'All good things which exist are the fruits of originality.'.. John Stuart Mill
'When you read and understand a poem, comprehending its rich and formal meanings, then you master chaos a little.'.. Stephen Spender
'Reading without reflecting is like eating without digesting.'.. Edmund Burke
'Life contains but two tragedies. One is not to get your heart's desire; the other is to get it.'.. George Bernard Shaw
'It's a poor sort of memory that only works backwards.'.. Lewis Carroll
'It is widely held that too much wine will dull a man's desire. Indeed it will in a dull man'.. John Osborne
'Few have been taught to any purpose who have not been their own teachers.'.. Joshua Reynolds
'Assassination is the extreme form of censorship.'.. George Bernard Shaw
'The best research for playing a drunk is being a British actor for 20 years'.. Michael Caine
'You will find that the woman who is really kind to dogs is always one who has failed to inspire sympathy in men'.. Max Beerbohm
'My boat can sleep 6 people that know each other well or 1 prude'.. Peter Ustinov
'At the end of the Beatles, I really was done in for the first time in my life. Until then, I really was a kind of cocky sod.'.. Paul McCartney
'I think if Keith Moon was here today and you asked him to recall most of his early life or most of his life, he wouldn't be able to recall it.'.. Roger Daltrey
'I shouldn't be saying this - high treason, really - but I sometimes wonder if Americans aren't fooled by our accent into detecting brilliance that may not really be there'.. Stephen Fry
'Success is a great deodorant.'.. Elizabeth Taylor
'The first and simplest emotion which we discover in the human mind, is curiosity.'.. Edmund Burke
'If I could I would always work in silence and obscurity, and let my efforts be known by their results.'.. Emily Bronte
'We cherish our friends not for their ability to amuse us, but for ours to amuse them.'.. Evelyn Waugh
'I'd like to grow very old as slowly as possible.'.. Charles Lamb
'When I repress my emotion my stomach keeps score.'.. Enoch Powell
'Poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese'.. GK Chesterton
'Happiness never lays its finger on its pulse.'.. Adam Smith
'Europe was created by history. America was created by philosophy'.. Margaret Thatcher
'Love is staying up all night with a sick child - or a healthy adult.'.. David Frost
'Give the enemy not only a road for flight, but also a means of defending it.'.. Thomas Hardy
'I took on the sins of everybody, of a generation, really'.. Christine Keeler
'The most conservative man in this world is the British trade unionist when you want to change him.'.. Ernest Bevin
'Fortitude is the guard and support of the other virtues.'.. John Locke