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Famous British Quotes
'All that I desire to point out is the general principle that life imitates art far more than art imitates life'.. Oscar Wilde
'To make your children capable of honesty is the beginning of education.'.. John Ruskin
'To do a great right do a little wrong.'.. William Shakespeare
'Could we teach taste or genius by rules, they would be no longer taste and genius'.. Joshua Reynolds
'The human species, according to the best theory I can form of it, is composed of two distinct races, the men who borrow and the men who lend.'.. Charles Lamb
'Never make a defense or an apology until you are accused.'.. Charles I
'Lack of money is the root of all evil.'.. George Bernard Shaw
'Life was planned by a committee while the clever ones had popped out to the lav'.. Victoria Wood
'All conservatism is based upon the idea that if you leave things alone you leave them as they are. But you do not. If you leave a thing alone you leave it to a torrent of change'.. GK Chesterton
'I venture to say no war can be long carried on against the will of the people.'.. Edmund Burke
'I chose my wife, as she did her wedding gown, for qualities that would wear well'.. Oliver Goldsmith
'A fishing rod is a stick with a hook at one end and a fool at the other'.. Samuel Johnson
'The world is a place on which England is to be found'.. GK Chesterton
'I am the only man who can say he has been in Take That and at least 2 members of the Spice Girls'.. Robbie Williams
'If you feel depressed or let down my advice is to roast a chicken'.. Delia Smith
'When love and skill work together, expect a masterpiece.'.. John Ruskin
'I always arrive late at the office, but I make up for it by leaving early.'.. Charles Lamb
'Riches are a good hand maiden, but a poor mistress.'.. Sir Francis Bacon
'Always be a little kinder than necessary.'.. J M Barrie
'God is the perfect poet.'.. Robert Browning
'The land of my fathers. My fathers can have it.'.. Dylan Thomas
'If we don't end war, war will end us.'.. H G Wells
'The very first requirement in a hospital is that it should do the sick no harm.'.. Florence Nightingale
'Mad Dogs and Englishmen go out in the midday sun'.. Noel Coward
'When a man is wrapped up in himself, he makes a pretty small package'.. John Ruskin
'I can imagine no more comfortable frame of mind than a humorous resignation'.. Somerset Maugham
'WH Auden didnt love God, he just fancied him'.. Stephen Spender
'In modern business it is not the crook who is to be feared most, it is the honest man who doesn't know what he is doing'.. William Wordsworth
'No one does anything from a single motive.'.. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
'The true definition of a snob is one who craves for what separates men rather than for what unites them'.. John Buchan