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Famous British Quotes
'One leak will sink a ship: and one sin will destroy a sinner.'.. John Bunyan
'A true friend stabs you in the front.'.. Oscar Wilde
'Outside every fat man there was an even fatter man trying to close in.'.. Sir Kingsley Amis
'People to whom nothing has ever happened cannot understand the unimportance of events.'.. T S Eliot
'We may be a small island, but we are not a small people.'.. Edward Heath
'The best car safety device is a rear-view mirror with a cop in it'.. Dudley Moore
'I'm an optimist, but an optimist who carries a raincoat.'.. Harold Wilson
'I should like to say that good batsman are born, not made; but my long experience comes up before me, and tells me that it is not so.'.. W G Grace
'Being deaf and partially blind means I don't really watch TV. I wouldn't know what to do with a remote control.'.. Eric Sykes
'It takes courage to make a fool of yourself'.. Charlie Chaplin
'As no man is born an artist, so no man is born an angler.'.. Izaak Walton
'Every man at the bottom of his heart believes that he is a born detective.'.. John Buchan
'Be thine own palace, or the world's thy jail.'.. John Donne
'Invention is the talent of youth, as judgment is of age.'.. Jonathan Swift
'A man does not know what he is saying until he knows what he is not saying'.. GK Chesterton
'The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age, which mean never losing your enthusiasm.'.. Aldous Huxley
'The golden rule is that there are no golden rules.'.. George Bernard Shaw
'Power without principle is barren, but principle without power is futile'.. Tony Blair
'Architecture aims at Eternity.'.. Christopher Wren
'Pity those who nature abuses; never those who abuse nature.'.. Richard Sheridan
'The more you understand something, I think the more you can enjoy it.'.. Ricky Gervais
'Both read the Bible day and night, but thou read black where I read white'.. William Blake
'A precedent embalms a principle.'.. Benjamin Disraeli
'There is a pleasure in being mad which none but madmen know.'.. John Dryden
'The media. It sounds like a convention of spiritualists.'.. Sir Tom Stoppard
'Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.'.. John Locke
'Men think about women. Women think about what men think about them.'.. Peter Ustinov
'Marriage is like paying an endless visit in your worst clothes.'.. J B Priestley
'I'd like to grow very old as slowly as possible.'.. Charles Lamb
'I do not believe in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.'.. Thomas Carlyle