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Famous British Quotes
'A fishing rod is a stick with a hook at one end and a fool at the other'.. Samuel Johnson
'The war between the sexes is the only one in which both sides regularly sleep with the enemy'.. Quentin Crisp
'Summer has set in with its usual severity'.. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
'Be content to remember that those who can make omelettes properly can do nothing else'.. Hilaire Belloc
'Men of my age live in a state of continual desperation.'.. Vita Sackville-West
'Not content to have the audience in the palm of his hand, he goes one further and clinches his fist.'.. Kenneth Tynan
'Remember that the most beautiful things in the world are the most useless; peacocks and lilies for instance'.. John Ruskin
'The more I see the less I know for sure.'.. John Lennon
'Books shouldn't be daunting,they should be funny,exciting & wonderful'.. Roald Dahl
'Theres only one thing worse than an Estate Agent but that can be safely lanced, drained and surgically dressed.'.. Stephen Fry
'Acting is merely the art of keeping a large group of people from coughing.'.. Ralph Richardson
'It's not the voting that's democracy; it's the counting.'.. Sir Tom Stoppard
'Before anything else, preparation is the key to success.'.. Alexander Graham Bell
'Insecurity, commonly regarded as a weakness in normal people, is the basic tool of the actor's trade'.. Miranda Richardson
'Heresies are experiments in man's unsatisfied search for truth.'.. H G Wells
'Feelings are like chemicals, the more you analyze them the worse they smell.'.. Charles Kingsley
'I remain just one thing, and one thing only, and that is a clown. It places me on a far higher plane than any politician.'.. Charlie Chaplin
'All sins tend to be addictive, and the terminal point of addiction is damnation.'.. W H Auden
'Pictures deface walls more often than they decorate them.'.. William Wordsworth
'Man is the creature of circumstances.'.. Robert Owen
'I believe the first test of a truly great man is in his humility.'.. John Ruskin
'Take away love and our earth is a tomb.'.. Robert Browning
'The past is a great place and I don't want to erase it or to regret it, but I don't want to be its prisoner either'.. Mick Jagger
'The most important of my discoveries have been suggested to me by my failures'.. Humphry Davy
'My unhealthy affection for my second daughter has waned. Now I despise all my seven children equally.'.. Evelyn Waugh
'Justice and judgment lie often a world apart.'.. Emmeline Pankhurst
'My character and good name are in my own keeping. Life with disgrace is dreadful. A glorious death is to be envied'.. Horatio Nelson
'Do what you haven't done is the key, I think.'.. Ridley Scott
'Drama is life with the dull bits cut out.'.. Alfred Hitchcock
'Those who will not reason, are bigots, those who cannot, are fools, and those who dare not, are slaves'.. Lord Byron