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Famous British Quotes
'When it comes to life the critical thing is whether you take things for granted or take them with gratitude'.. GK Chesterton
'It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend.'.. William Blake
'Maybe this world is another planets hell'.. Aldous Huxley
'At fifty everyone has the face he deserves.'.. George Orwell
'If there's no money in poetry, neither is there poetry in money.'.. Robert Graves
'The most precious things in speech are pauses.'.. Ralph Richardson
'The finest eloquence is that which gets things done.'.. David Lloyd George
'Art is born of humiliation.'.. W H Auden
'Never argue; repeat your assertion.'.. Robert Owen
'Beauty is a short-lived tyranny.'.. George Bernard Shaw
'Art is the symbol of the two noblest human efforts: to construct and to refrain from destruction.'.. Evelyn Waugh
'The trouble with British Rail passengers is that they think the railways are being run for their benefit'.. Jeremy Clarkson
'In politics, there is no use looking beyond the next fortnight.'.. Joseph Chamberlain
'I only go out to get me a fresh appetite for being alone.'.. Lord Byron
'Not where I breathe, but where I love, I live; Not where I love, but where I am, I die'.. Robert Southey
'Do not try to live forever. You will not succeed.'.. George Bernard Shaw
'People who get through life dependent on other people's possessions are always the first to lecture you on how little possessions count.'.. Ben Elton
'A belief is like a guillotine, just as heavy, just as light.'.. David Hockney
'Oh, what a shock. My career must be slipping. This is the first time I've been available to pick up an award.'.. Michael Caine
'We wander for distraction, but we travel for fulfillment.'.. Hilaire Belloc
'Contrariwise, if it was so, it might be; and if it were so, it would be; but as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic.'.. Lewis Carroll
'In a completely sane world, madness is the only freedom!'.. James G Ballard
'I am half British and half American. My passport has an eagle with a tea bag in its mouth'.. Bob Hope
'Let everyone regulate his conduct... by the golden rule of doing to others as in similar circumstances we would have them do to us, and the path of duty will be clear before him.'.. William Wilberforce
'Youth smiles without any reason. It is one of its chiefest charms.'.. Thomas Gray
'A toddling little girl is a centre of common feeling which makes the most dissimilar people understand each other.'.. George Eliot
'Language ought to be the joint creation of poets and manual workers'.. George Orwell
'Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.'.. George Bernard Shaw
'Lets face it Football is a game for commoners. As soon as you get a mortgage you start to like Tennis'.. Jonathan Ross
'Pity those who nature abuses; never those who abuse nature.'.. Richard Sheridan