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Famous British Quotes
'The most happy marriage I can picture or imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman'.. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
'Man has almost constant occasion for the help of his brethren, and it is in vain for him to expect it from their benevolence only.'.. Adam Smith
'A man is in general better pleased when he has a good dinner upon his table, than when his wife talks Greek'.. Samuel Johnson
'Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs.'.. William Shakespeare
'It's not so much about what you ask as what you don't ask.'.. Michael Parkinson
'I have a face like the behind of an elephant.'.. Charles Laughton
'A laugh, to be joyous, must flow from a joyous heart, for without kindness, there can be no true joy'.. Thomas Carlyle
'The person that loses their conscience has nothing left worth keeping.'.. Izaak Walton
'Compromise is the best and cheapest lawyer.'.. Robert Louis Stevenson
'Whenever people talk to me about the weather I always feel certain that they mean something else'.. Oscar Wilde
'The longer you look at an object, the more abstract it becomes, and, ironically, the more real.'.. Lucien Freud
'Doubt, of whatever kind, can be ended by action alone.'.. Thomas Carlyle
'Circumstances are beyond human control, but our conduct is in our own power.'.. Benjamin Disraeli
'I've always said there's a place for the press but they haven't dug it yet.'.. Tommy Docherty
'The real character of a man is found out by his amusements.'.. Joshua Reynolds
'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 left England when I was 4 when I discovered that I couldnt be king'.. Bob Hope
'The only exercise I take is walking behind the coffins of friends who have taken too much exercise'.. Peter O’Toole
'A man seldom thinks with more earnestness of anything than he does of his dinner'.. Samuel Johnson
'If the best man's faults were written on his forehead, he would draw his hat over his eyes.'.. Thomas Gray
'The main facts in human life are five: birth, food, sleep, love and death'.. E M Forster
'Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.'.. T S Eliot
'Man is an animal that makes bargains: no other animal does this - no dog exchanges bones with another.'.. Adam Smith
'Superhuman effort isn't worth a damn unless it achieves results.'.. Ernest Shackleton
'Happiness never lays its finger on its pulse.'.. Adam Smith
'The very first requirement in a hospital is that it should do the sick no harm.'.. Florence Nightingale
'I felt my mother about the place. I don't think she haunts me, but I wouldn't put it past her.'.. Julie Walters
'Love is only a dirty trick played on us to achieve continuation of the species.'.. Somerset Maugham
'So much of left-wing thought is a kind of playing with fire by people who don't even know that fire is hot'.. George Orwell
'All money is a matter of belief.'.. Adam Smith