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Famous British Quotes
'A poem is true if it hangs together. Information points to something else. A poem points to nothing but itself'.. E M Forster
'To have news value is to have a tin can tied to one's tail.'.. T E Lawrence
'A family with the wrong members in control; that, perhaps, is as near as one can come to describing England in a phrase.'.. George Orwell
'A cynic is a man who knows the price of everything but the value of nothing'.. Oscar Wilde
'Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard are sweeter.'.. John Keats
'All I need to make a comedy is a park, a policeman and a pretty girl.'.. Charlie Chaplin
'A consistent soul believes in destiny, a capricious one in chance.'.. Benjamin Disraeli
'Life is a comedy for those who think... and a tragedy for those who feel'.. Horace Walpole
'A truth that's told with bad intent beats all the lies you can invent.'.. William Blake
'Pessimist: One who, when he has the choice of two evils, chooses both'.. Oscar Wilde
'I don't watch television, I think it destroys the art of talking about oneself.'.. Stephen Fry
'May you live every day of your life.'.. Jonathan Swift
'How very little can be done under the spirit of fear.'.. Florence Nightingale
'Unless we remember we cannot understand.'.. E M Forster
'Faith is a passionate intuition.'.. William Wordsworth
'All men have an instinct for conflict: at least, all healthy men.'.. Hilaire Belloc
'All significant truths are private truths. As they become public they cease to become truths; they become facts, or at best, part of the public character; or at worst, catchwords.'.. T S Eliot
'Every new opinion, at its starting, is precisely in a minority of one.'.. Thomas Carlyle
'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
'Never the time and the place and the loved one all together!'.. Robert Browning
'Society needs to condemn a little more and understand a little less.'.. John Major
'Life is a progress from want to want, not from enjoyment to enjoyment.'.. Samuel Johnson
'To make us love our country, our country ought to be lovely.'.. Edmund Burke
'I dont believe in God but I am very interested in Her'.. Arthur C Clarke
'If you give up drink and sex, you don't live longer. It just seems longer'.. Clement Freud
'Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few.'.. Winston Churchill
'Anything for the quick life, as the man said when he took the situation at the lighthouse'.. Charles Dickens
'God gave us memory so that we might have roses in December.'.. J M Barrie
'Summer has set in with its usual severity'.. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
'For most of history, Anonymous was a woman.'.. Virginia Woolf