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Famous British Quotes
'Great literature should do some good to the reader: must quicken his perception though dull, and sharpen his discrimination though blunt, and mellow the rawness of his personal opinions'.. A E Housman
'For all my education, accomplishments, and so called 'wisdom'... I can't fathom my own heart'.. Michael Caine
'The worst of revolutions is a restoration'.. Charles James Fox
'The fashionable woman wears clothes. The clothes don't wear her.'.. Mary Quant
'There are three rules for writing a novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are'.. Somerset Maugham
'Books like friends, should be few and well-chosen.'.. Samuel Johnson
'Criticism, that fine flower of personal expression in the garden of letters'.. Joseph Conrad
'It was fantastic to work in Cornwall partly because my family live there so I was able to do lots of visiting and eat lots of cake.'.. Dawn French
'Life’s never a postcard of life, is it? It never feels like how you’d want it to look'.. Russell Brand
'In politics, what begins in fear usually ends in failure.'.. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
'I have a face like the behind of an elephant.'.. Charles Laughton
'I am prepared to go anywhere, provided it be forward.'.. David Livingstone
'Henley is the Venice of the South'.. Boris Johnson
'For my part, I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move.'.. Robert Louis Stevenson
'You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.'.. C S Lewis
'England has always been disinclined to accept human nature.'.. E M Forster
'Intelligence is the ability to adapt to change.'.. Stephen Hawking
'Jealousy is the jaundice of the soul.'.. John Dryden
'Do not allow to slip away from you freedoms the people who came before you won with such hard knocks.'.. D H Lawrence
'An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last.'.. Winston Churchill
'To sentence a man of true genius, to the drudgery of a school is to put a racehorse on a treadmill'.. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
'I find it rather easy to portray a businessman. Being bland, rather cruel and incompetent comes naturally to me'.. John Cleese
'Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.'.. T S Eliot
'I am not a heavy drinker. I can sometimes go for hours without touching a drop.'.. Noel Coward
'It's an honor to be on the same network that gave us 'The Sopranos,' ... They made me an offer I couldn't refuse.'.. Ricky Gervais
'I had a dream that I was awake and I woke up to find myself asleep.'.. Stan Laurel
'All fantasy should have a solid base in reality.'.. Max Beerbohm
'My boyfriend had a sex manual but he was dyslexic. I was lying there and he was looking for my vinegar'.. Victoria Wood
'Learn from your dreams what you lack.'.. W H Auden
'Anything is good if it's made of chocolate.'.. Jo Brand