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Famous British Quotes
'Friendship is Love without his wings'.. Lord Byron
'Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs.'.. William Shakespeare
'The dreadful truth is that when people come to see their MP they have run out of better ideas'.. Boris Johnson
'You may travel the world over but you will find nowhere more beautiful; It is so restful, so colourful and so unspoilt (Tenby)'.. Augustus John
'I try to avoid looking forward or backward, and try to keep looking upward.'.. Charlotte Bronte
'We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.'.. Winston Churchill
'A verbal art like poetry is reflective; it stops to think. Music is immediate, it goes on to become'.. W H Auden
'In politics, strangely enough, the best way to play your cards is to lay them face upwards on the table'.. H G Wells
'Dunblane Cathedral - I know not of anything so perfect in its simplicity'.. John Ruskin
'Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will make me go in a corner and cry by myself for hours.'.. Eric Idle
'Responsibilities gravitate to the person who can shoulder them.'.. Sir Tom Stoppard
'Sometimes we stare so long at a door that is closing that we see too late the one that is open.'.. Alexander Graham Bell
'A dream you dream alone is only a dream. A dream you dream together is reality'.. John Lennon
'Men of my age live in a state of continual desperation.'.. Vita Sackville-West
'I would much prefer to be a judge than a coal miner because of the absence of falling coal'.. Peter Cook
'Dancing is a perpendicular expression of a horizontal desire.'.. George Bernard Shaw
'Every harlot was a virgin once.'.. William Blake
'O, what a tangled web we weave when first we practise to deceive!'.. Walter Scott
'There's no such thing as failure - just waiting for success.'.. John Osborne
'Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same.'.. Oscar Wilde
'It's difficult isn't it, when you're in a Mosque and everyone's praying and you really enjoy leapfrog'.. Milton Jones
'Although it is not true that all conservatives are stupid people, it is true that most stupid people are conservative'.. John Stuart Mill
'To see a world in a grain of sand and heaven in a wild flower Hold infinity in the palms of your hand and eternity in an hour'.. William Blake
'WH Auden didnt love God, he just fancied him'.. Stephen Spender
'I'd like to grow very old as slowly as possible.'.. Charles Lamb
'The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit.'.. Somerset Maugham
''Tis the last rose of summer Left blooming alone; All her lovely companions Are faded and gone.'.. Thomas More
'The light, that lies In woman's eyes, Has been my heart's undoing.'.. Thomas More
'Never keep up with the Jones's. Drag them down to your level instead'.. Quentin Crisp
'I should prefer to have a politician who regularly went to a massage parlour than one who promised a laptop computer for every teacher.'.. A N Wilson