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Famous British Quotes
'Talk that does not end in any kind of action is better suppressed altogether.'.. Thomas Carlyle
'No one gossips about other people's secret virtues.'.. Bertrand Russell
'I love everything that's old, - old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wine'.. Oliver Goldsmith
'Spoon feeding in the long run teaches us nothing but the shape of the spoon.'.. E M Forster
'To get a job where the only thing you have to do in your career is to make people laugh-well, it's the best job in the world'.. Ronnie Barker
'If you aren't in over your head, how do you know how tall you are?'.. T S Eliot
'Probably the battle of Waterloo was won on the playing-fields of Eton, but the opening battles of all subsequent wars have been lost there'.. George Orwell
'A mother is a mother still, The holiest thing alive.'.. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
'He has sat on the fence so long that the iron has entered his soul.'.. David Lloyd George
'Charity begins at home, and justice begins next door.'.. Charles Dickens
'You owe it to us all to get on with what you're good at.'.. W H Auden
'You have no idea what a poor opinion I have of myself and how little I deserve it'.. W S Gilbert
'The individual is not accountable to society for his actions in so far as these concern the interests of no person but himself.'.. John Stuart Mill
'You never know what is enough unless you know what is more than enough.'.. William Blake
'Every blessed one of you feels better for that burst of laughter.'.. Ivor Novello
'Bexhill on Sea is a peck on the cheek: Hastings is a lolloping tongue down the throat'.. Jo Brand
'I'm not afraid of death but I am afraid of dying. Pain can be alleviated by morphine but the pain of social ostracism cannot be taken away'.. Derek Jarman
'Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal.'.. T S Eliot
'Life is ours to be spent, not to be saved.'.. D H Lawrence
'A celebrity is one who is known to many persons he is glad he doesn't know'.. Lord Byron
'Pleasure and action make the hours seem short.'.. William Shakespeare
'A room without books is like a body without a soul.'.. GK Chesterton
'Confidence is a plant of slow growth in an aged heart.'.. William Pitt (The Younger)
'We cherish our friends not for their ability to amuse us, but for ours to amuse them.'.. Evelyn Waugh
'I don't pretend we have all the answers. But the questions are certainly worth thinking about.'.. Arthur C Clarke
'So much of left-wing thought is a kind of playing with fire by people who don't even know that fire is hot'.. George Orwell
'Being pregnant is an occupational hazard of being a wife.'.. Queen Victoria
'Integrity is so perishable in the summer months of success.'.. Vanessa Redgrave
'If you had a face like mine, you'd punch me right on the nose, and I'm just the fella to do it.'.. Stan Laurel
'Only a mediocre person is always at his best.'.. Somerset Maugham