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Famous British Quotes
'A good book is the precious lifeblood of a master spirit.'.. John Milton
'Advertising is legalized lying.'.. H G Wells
'Adventure is not outside man; it is within.'.. George Eliot
'We grow small trying to be great.'.. David Hockney
'I am not young enough to know everything.'.. J M Barrie
'A dream you dream alone is only a dream. A dream you dream together is reality'.. John Lennon
'I wouldn't dream of taking life as it comes. It may not be colour co-ordinated'.. Julian Clary
'A sure cure for seasickness is to sit under a tree.'.. Spike Milligan
'Faith is a passionate intuition.'.. William Wordsworth
'You shall judge a man by his foes as well as by his friends.'.. Joseph Conrad
'When you reach the top, that's when the climb begins.'.. Michael Caine
'There is no sin but ignorance.'.. Christopher Marlowe
'O, what a tangled web we weave when first we practise to deceive!'.. Walter Scott
'Anxiety is the hand maiden of creativity.'.. T S Eliot
'Pain is no evil, unless it conquers us.'.. Charles Kingsley
'Critics! Those cut-throat bandits in the paths of fame.'.. Robert Burns
'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
'A man is in general better pleased when he has a good dinner upon his table, than when his wife talks Greek'.. Samuel Johnson
'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
'The one haunting and exasperatingly lovable city in Scotland'.. Lewis Gibbon
'One man's wage increase is another man's price increase.'.. Harold Wilson
'Be like a duck. Calm on the surface, but always paddling like the dickens underneath.'.. Michael Caine
'Love seeketh not itself to please, nor for itself hath any care, but for another gives its ease, and builds a Heaven in Hell's despair'.. William Blake
'I can take any amount of criticism as long as its unqualifed praise'.. Noel Coward
'To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only meaning of life.'.. Robert Louis Stevenson
'A poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language.'.. W H Auden
'Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not; a sense of humor to console him for what he is.'.. Sir Francis Bacon
'The best part of a holiday is not so much to be resting yourself as to see all the other fellows busy working'.. Kenneth Grahame
'A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject.'.. Winston Churchill
'Do not allow to slip away from you freedoms the people who came before you won with such hard knocks.'.. D H Lawrence