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Famous British Quotes
'Art can never exist without naked beauty displayed.'.. William Blake
'Art is the symbol of the two noblest human efforts: to construct and to refrain from destruction.'.. Evelyn Waugh
'A mere copier of nature can never produce anything great.'.. Joshua Reynolds
'I know not, sir, whether Bacon wrote the works of Shakespeare, but if he did not, it seems to me that he missed the opportunity of his life.'.. J M Barrie
'Women want love to be a novel, men a short story.'.. Daphne du Maurier
'A man that hoards up riches and enjoys them not, is like an ass that carries gold and eats thistles'.. Richard Burton
'Be not afraid of greatness: some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them'.. William Shakespeare
'You will find that the woman who is really kind to dogs is always one who has failed to inspire sympathy in men'.. Max Beerbohm
'Never make a defense or an apology until you are accused.'.. Charles I
'Talk that does not end in any kind of action is better suppressed altogether.'.. Thomas Carlyle
'Never trust a man who does not have a single redeeming vice'.. Winston Churchill
'It is not how much one makes but to what purpose one spends.'.. John Ruskin
'In the end, everything is a gag.'.. Charlie Chaplin
'The martyr sacrifices themselves entirely in vain. Or rather not in vain; for they make the narrow narrower'.. Florence Nightingale
'We cherish our friends not for their ability to amuse us, but for ours to amuse them.'.. Evelyn Waugh
'Men may be popular without being ambitious, but there is hardly an ambitious man who does not try to be popular.'.. Lord North
'I'm always looking for meaningful one-night stands'.. Dudley Moore
'I think the British have the distinction above all other nations of being able to put new wine into old bottles without bursting them'.. Clement Attlee
'Ambition makes more trusty slaves than need.'.. Ben Jonson
'He threatens many that hath injured one'.. Ben Jonson
'Possession isn't nine-tenths of the law. It's nine-tenths of the problem'.. John Lennon
'Every man over forty is a scoundrel.'.. George Bernard Shaw
'The age of chivalry is past. Bores have succeeded to dragons.'.. Charles Dickens
'I spent a lot of money on booze, birds and fast cars. The rest I just squandered.'.. George Best
'History is a race between education and catastrophe.'.. H G Wells
'A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of.'.. Jane Austen
'Art, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere.'.. GK Chesterton
'In London, love and scandal are considered the best sweeteners of tea.'.. John Osborne
'You never know what is enough unless you know what is more than enough.'.. William Blake
'There are two things no man will admit he cannot do well: drive and make love.'.. Stirling Moss