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Famous British Quotes
'The greatness of a man's power is the measure of his surrender.'.. William Booth
'To generalize is to be an idiot.'.. William Blake
'I desire no future that will break the ties with the past.'.. George Eliot
'I saw six men kicking and punching the mother-in-law. My neighbour said 'Are you going to help?' I said 'No, six should be enough'.. Les Dawson
'Criticism, that fine flower of personal expression in the garden of letters'.. Joseph Conrad
'Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.'.. Bertrand Russell
'I work for a Government I despise for ends I think criminal.'.. John Maynard Keynes
'The fact of the matter is that most actors are shy people.'.. Roger Moore
'A dog is for life and not just for christmas so do be careful at the office party'.. Jimmy Carr
'No bird soars too high if he soars with his own wings.'.. William Blake
'Serious sport is war minus the shooting.'.. George Orwell
'People say you should read your criticism because it will make you a better person but it doesn't. It just makes you a sad bitter old showbiz nightmare'.. Jo Brand
'Every dog must have his day.'.. Jonathan Swift
'Suspense is worse than disappointment.'.. Robert Burns
'Saw a wedding in the church. It was strange to see what delight we married people have to see these poor fools decoyed into our condition.'.. Samuel Pepys
'Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing.'.. Oscar Wilde
'But better die than live mechanically a life that is a repetition of repetitions.'.. D H Lawrence
'If a nation could not prosper without the enjoyment of perfect liberty and perfect justice, there is not in the world a nation which could ever have prospered.'.. Adam Smith
'I don’t understand bus lanes. Why do poor people have to get to places quicker than I do?'.. Jeremy Clarkson
'One forgets words as one forgets names. One's vocabulary needs constant fertilizing or it will die.'.. Evelyn Waugh
'The real character of a man is found out by his amusements.'.. Joshua Reynolds
'Presteigne - Neither in England nor Wales, simply in Radnorshire'.. George Borrow
'An actor is something less than a man, while an actress is something more than a woman.'.. Richard Burton
'WH Auden didnt love God, he just fancied him'.. Stephen Spender
'In order that people may be happy in their work, these three things are needed: They must be fit for it. They must not do too much of it. And they must have a sense of success in it.'.. John Ruskin
'Necessity dispenseth with decorum.'.. Thomas Carlyle
'Taste every fruit of every tree in the garden at least once. It is an insult to creation not to experience it fully. Temperance is wickedness'.. Stephen Fry
'Fear is the mother of foresight.'.. Thomas Hardy
'They say an actor is only as good as his parts. Well my parts have done me pretty well'.. Barbara Windsor
'The sort of poetry I seek resides in objects man can't touch.'.. E M Forster