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Famous British Quotes
'Could we teach taste or genius by rules, they would be no longer taste and genius'.. Joshua Reynolds
'If a farmer fills his barn with grain, he gets mice. If he leaves it empty, he gets actors'.. Walter Scott
'If a man's wit be wandering, let him study the mathematics.'.. Sir Francis Bacon
'Never in the way, and never out of the way.'.. Charles II
'Doing is the great thing, for if people resolutely do what is right, they come in time to like doing it.'.. John Ruskin
'A man without a goal is like a ship without a rudder.'.. Thomas Carlyle
'If everyone demanded peace instead of another television set, then there'd be peace.'.. John Lennon
'Now this is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning'.. Winston Churchill
'We cast a shadow on something wherever we stand.'.. E M Forster
'The most precious things in speech are pauses.'.. Ralph Richardson
'I thought coq au vin was love in a lorry'.. Victoria Wood
'I desire no future that will break the ties with the past.'.. George Eliot
'I dont make predictions. I never have and I never will'.. Tony Blair
'We forge the chains we wear in life.'.. Charles Dickens
'It is the test of a good religion whether you can joke about it.'.. GK Chesterton
'Indifference and neglect often do much more damage than outright dislike.'.. J K Rowling
'It's very hard to be a gentleman and a writer.'.. Somerset Maugham
'One way of looking at speech is to say it is a constant stratagem to cover nakedness.'.. Harold Pinter
'You can always count on Americans to do the right thing - after they've tried everything else.'.. Winston Churchill
'What is wonderful about great literature is that it transforms the man who reads it towards the condition of the man who wrote.'.. E M Forster
'Prudence is a rich, ugly, old maid courted by incapacity.'.. William Blake
'That we must all die, we always knew; I wish I had remembered it sooner.'.. Samuel Johnson
'I dont understand the French. These are people with a town called Brest and none of them think its funny'.. Al Murray
'A wonderful fact to reflect upon, that every human creature is constituted to be that profound secret and mystery to every other.'.. Charles Dickens
'I exist in a state of almost perpetual hysteria.'.. Sting
'There is no comparison between that which is lost by not succeeding and that which is lost by not trying.'.. Sir Francis Bacon
'I had a dream that I was awake and I woke up to find myself asleep.'.. Stan Laurel
'I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many unsigned poems, was a woman'.. Virginia Woolf
'Bournemouth is one of the few English towns that one can safely call 'her''.. John Betjeman
'Divorce is a game played by lawyers.'.. Cary Grant