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Famous British Quotes
'Chester pleases my fancy more than any other place I ever saw'.. James Boswell
'I hate publicity, and I have contrived to survive to be an old woman without it, except in the homey atmosphere of Agricultural Shows'.. Beatrix Potter
'I have a fantasy where Ted Turner is elected president but refuses because he doesn't want to give up power.'.. Arthur C Clarke
'Eternity's a terrible thought. I mean, where's it all going to end?'.. Sir Tom Stoppard
'Writing is the supreme solace.'.. Somerset Maugham
'Any fool can write a novel but it takes real genius to sell it.'.. James G Ballard
'If there were no bad people, there would be no good lawyers.'.. Charles Dickens
'Ability is sexless'.. Christabel Pankhurst
'A painter must think of everything he sees as being there entirely for his own use and pleasure.'.. Lucien Freud
'Be not a slave of words.'.. Thomas Carlyle
'A gentleman is one who puts more into the world than he takes out'.. George Bernard Shaw
'All heiresses are beautiful.'.. John Dryden
'The world is like a grand staircase, some are going up and some are going down.'.. Samuel Johnson
'Beauty is a short-lived tyranny.'.. George Bernard Shaw
'I am not, I repeat, NOT a lesbian - even though I'd like to be one when I grow up.'.. Dawn French
'Come forth into the light of things, let nature be your teacher.'.. William Wordsworth
'Poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese'.. GK Chesterton
'For a creative writer possession of the "truth" is less important than emotional sincerity'.. George Orwell
'Always live in the ugliest house on the street - then you don't have to look at it.'.. David Hockney
'I would die for my country but I could never let my country die for me'.. Neil Kinnock
'Nothing is so fatal to religion as indifference.'.. Edmund Burke
'Assassination has never changed the history of the world.'.. Benjamin Disraeli
'Sometimes we stare so long at a door that is closing that we see too late the one that is open.'.. Alexander Graham Bell
'It's no use crying over spilt summits.'.. Harold Macmillan
'Give a little love to a child, and you get a great deal back.'.. John Ruskin
'I need no dictionary of quotations to remind me that the eyes are the windows of the soul'.. Max Beerbohm
'The news is always bad, even when it sounds good'.. Aldous Huxley
'A yawn is a silent shout'.. GK Chesterton
'Nothing in life is so exhilarating as to be shot at without result.'.. Winston Churchill
'I am playing all the right notes, but not necessarily in the right order.'.. Eric Morecambe