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Famous British Quotes
'A woman is as young as her knees.'.. Mary Quant
'For all my education, accomplishments, and so called 'wisdom'... I can't fathom my own heart'.. Michael Caine
'Nature uses as little as possible of anything'.. Alan Bleasdale
'I am in that temper that if I were under water I would scarcely kick to come to the top'.. John Keats
'Youth smiles without any reason. It is one of its chiefest charms.'.. Thomas Gray
'That great Cathedral space which was childhood.'.. Virginia Woolf
'For my part, I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move.'.. Robert Louis Stevenson
'There were many times my pants were so thin I could sit on a dime and tell if it was heads or tails.'.. Jonathan Swift
'The trouble with words is that you never know whose mouths they have been in.'.. Dennis Potter
'By nature, men love newfangledness.'.. Geoffrey Chaucer
'The age of chivalry is past. Bores have succeeded to dragons.'.. Charles Dickens
'The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none.'.. Thomas Carlyle
'This diamond has so many carats it's almost a turnip.'.. Richard Burton
'We always love those who admire us; we do not always love those whom we admire.'.. Rupert Brooke
'Great is the hand that holds dominion over man by a scribbled name.'.. Dylan Thomas
'You never know what is enough unless you know what is more than enough.'.. William Blake
'No man can lose what he never had.'.. Izaak Walton
'It is our responsibilities, not ourselves, that we should take seriously.'.. Peter Ustinov
'Could we teach taste or genius by rules, they would be no longer taste and genius'.. Joshua Reynolds
'Remember the dignity of your womanhood. Do not appeal, do not beg, do not grovel. Take courage, join hands, stand beside us, fight with us.'.. Christabel Pankhurst
'Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.'.. Benjamin Disraeli
'Let sleeping dogs lie.'.. Robert Walpole
'All that we are not stares back at what we are.'.. W H Auden
'Common sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom'.. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
'A true friend stabs you in the front.'.. Oscar Wilde
'The British tourist is always happy abroad as long as the natives are waiters'.. Robert Morley
'I have a fantasy where Ted Turner is elected president but refuses because he doesn't want to give up power.'.. Arthur C Clarke
'One is certain of nothing but the truth of one's own emotions.'.. E M Forster
'To his dog, every man is Napoleon; hence the constant popularity of dogs.'.. Aldous Huxley
'To be blind is not miserable; not to be able to bear blindness, that is miserable'.. John Milton