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Famous British Quotes
'I'd like to grow very old as slowly as possible.'.. Charles Lamb
'A good thing never ends.'.. Mick Jagger
'What is reading, but silent conversation.'.. Charles Lamb
'Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not; a sense of humor to console him for what he is.'.. Sir Francis Bacon
'Genius not only diagnoses the situation but supplies the answers.'.. Robert Graves
'We often repent of our first thoughts, and scarce ever of our second'.. Horace Walpole
'If you feel depressed or let down my advice is to roast a chicken'.. Delia Smith
'One might well say that mankind is divisible into two great classes: hosts and guests'.. Max Beerbohm
'I'd sooner be called a successful crook than a destitute monarch.'.. Charlie Chaplin
'The saddest thing I can imagine is to get used to luxury.'.. Charlie Chaplin
'Sooner or later everyone sits down to a banquet of consequences.'.. Robert Louis Stevenson
'My opinion is that a poet should express the emotion of all the ages and the thought of his own.'.. Thomas Hardy
'The difference between England and the USA is that when we have a world eries we invite other countries to participate'.. John Cleese
'Like all great travellers, I have seen more than I remember, and remember more than I have seen.'.. Benjamin Disraeli
'Sometimes when you're drunk you can see better.'.. Damien Hirst
'Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.'.. T S Eliot
'It takes little talent to see what lies under one's nose, a good deal to know in what direction to point that organ.'.. W H Auden
'When we argue for our limitations, we get to keep them.'.. Evelyn Waugh
'Experience is the child of thought, and thought is the child of action.'.. Benjamin Disraeli
'I would much prefer to be a judge than a coal miner because of the absence of falling coal'.. Peter Cook
'If I had been around when Rubens was painting, I would have been revered as a fabulous model. Kate Moss? Well, she would have been the paintbrush.'.. Dawn French
'Asparagus inspires gentle thoughts.'.. Charles Lamb
'I am not a heavy drinker. I can sometimes go for hours without touching a drop.'.. Noel Coward
'You can give without loving, but you can never love without giving.'.. Robert Louis Stevenson
'Everything government touches turns to crap.'.. Ringo Starr
'I can imagine no more comfortable frame of mind than a humorous resignation'.. Somerset Maugham
'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
'The pain of parting is nothing to the joy of meeting again.'.. Charles Dickens
'My family pride is something inconceivable. I can't help it. I was born sneering.'.. W S Gilbert
'The true secret of happiness lies in taking a genuine interest in all the details of daily life.'.. William Morris