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Famous British Quotes
'Come forth into the light of things, let nature be your teacher.'.. William Wordsworth
'Absences are a good influence in love and keep it bright and delicate.'.. Robert Louis Stevenson
'One leak will sink a ship: and one sin will destroy a sinner.'.. John Bunyan
'About a month before he died, my grandfather, we covered his back full of lard – after that he went downhill very quickly'.. Milton Jones
'The House of Lords is like a glass of champagne that has stood for five days'.. Clement Attlee
'Art is the most passionate orgy within man's grasp.'.. John Donne
'The more you understand something, I think the more you can enjoy it.'.. Ricky Gervais
'Progress is not an illusion, it happens, but it is slow and invariably disappointing'.. George Orwell
'An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered'.. GK Chesterton
'Nothing is pleasant that is not spiced with variety.'.. Sir Francis Bacon
'A man, as a general rule, owes very little to what he is born with - a man is what he makes of himself'.. Alexander Graham Bell
'I like Beethoven, especially the poems.'.. Ringo Starr
'It is not good to cross the bridge before you get to it.'.. Judi Dench
'By indignities men come to dignities.'.. Sir Francis Bacon
'America: It's like Britain, only with buttons.'.. Ringo Starr
'The function of posterity is to look after itself.'.. Dylan Thomas
'My boat can sleep 6 people that know each other well or 1 prude'.. Peter Ustinov
'When one burns one's bridges, what a very nice fire it makes.'.. Dylan Thomas
'Man is the creature of circumstances.'.. Robert Owen
'The difference between Socrates and Jesus? The great conscious and the immeasurably great unconscious'.. Thomas Carlyle
'My face looks like a wedding-cake left out in the rain.'.. W H Auden
'My definition of an intellectual is someone who can listen to the William Tell Overture without thinking of the Lone Ranger.'.. Billy Connolly
'The first condition of understanding a foreign country is to smell it.'.. Rudyard Kipling
'I shouldn't be saying this - high treason, really - but I sometimes wonder if Americans aren't fooled by our accent into detecting brilliance that may not really be there'.. Stephen Fry
'Unintelligent people always look for a scapegoat.'.. Ernest Bevin
'Desperate affairs require desperate measures.'.. Horatio Nelson
'Andrew Marr looks like Martin Clunes with a little of the air let out of him'.. Jo Brand
'Papa, potatoes, poultry, prunes and prism, are all very good words for the lips.'.. Charles Dickens
'A bachelor's life is a fine breakfast, a flat lunch, and a miserable dinner.'.. Sir Francis Bacon
'A man never tells you anything until you contradict him.'.. George Bernard Shaw