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Famous British Quotes
'I don't watch television, I think it destroys the art of talking about oneself.'.. Stephen Fry
'It is fatal to be a man or woman pure and simple: one must be a manly woman, or a womanly man.'.. Virginia Woolf
'May not the complaint, that common people are above their station, often take its rise in the fact of uncommon people being below theirs?'.. Charles Dickens
'But better die than live mechanically a life that is a repetition of repetitions.'.. D H Lawrence
'Things which do not require effort of some sort are seldom worth having'.. Ivor Novello
'Britain is the grit in the European oyster'.. John Major
'A room without books is like a body without a soul.'.. GK Chesterton
'The block of granite which was an obstacle in the pathway of the weak, became a stepping-stone in the pathway of the strong.'.. Thomas Carlyle
'All I need to make a comedy is a park, a policeman and a pretty girl.'.. Charlie Chaplin
'Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers.'.. Alfred Lord Tennyson
'Love is not love that alters when it alteration finds.'.. William Shakespeare
'Nothing that is worth knowing can be taught'.. Oscar Wilde
'If you feel depressed or let down my advice is to roast a chicken'.. Delia Smith
'A poem is true if it hangs together. Information points to something else. A poem points to nothing but itself'.. E M Forster
'All conservatism is based upon the idea that if you leave things alone you leave them as they are. But you do not. If you leave a thing alone you leave it to a torrent of change'.. GK Chesterton
'Every time you liberate a woman, you liberate a man'.. Emmeline Pankhurst
'In modern business it is not the crook who is to be feared most, it is the honest man who doesn't know what he is doing'.. William Wordsworth
'Health is the state about which medicine has nothing to say.'.. W H Auden
'The purpose of getting power is to be able to give it away'.. Aneurin Bevan
'The snowdrop and primrose our woodlands adorn, and violets bathe in the wet o' the morn.'.. Robert Burns
'If we have to have Tories, good luck to her. She is the best man among them'.. Barbara Castle
'Blessed is he who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed.'.. Jonathan Swift
'It is our responsibilities, not ourselves, that we should take seriously.'.. Peter Ustinov
'Where large sums of money are concerned, it is advisable to trust nobody'.. Agatha Christie
'How you think when you lose determines how long it will be until you win'.. GK Chesterton
'Talk of the devil, and his horns appear.'.. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
'You cannot antagonize and influence at the same time.'.. John Knox
'The main facts in human life are five: birth, food, sleep, love and death'.. E M Forster
'A poet is a professional maker of verbal objects.'.. W H Auden
'Justice and judgment lie often a world apart.'.. Emmeline Pankhurst