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Famous British Quotes
'The hard part is getting to the top of Page 1'.. Sir Tom Stoppard
'There's no use doing a kindness if you do it a day too late.'.. Charles Kingsley
'Older women are best, because they always think they may be doing it for the last time.'.. Ian Fleming
'To an ordinary human being, love means nothing if it does not mean loving some people more than others'.. George Orwell
'The land of my fathers. My fathers can have it.'.. Dylan Thomas
'Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal.'.. T S Eliot
'There is no such thing as the pursuit of happiness, but there is the discovery of joy'.. Joyce Grenfell
'Power without principle is barren, but principle without power is futile'.. Tony Blair
'My boyfriend had a sex manual but he was dyslexic. I was lying there and he was looking for my vinegar'.. Victoria Wood
'It does not do to leave a live dragon out of your calculations, if you live near him'.. J R R Tolkien
'I thought how unpleasant it is to be locked out; and I thought how it is worse, perhaps, to be locked in.'.. Virginia Woolf
'Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown.'.. William Shakespeare
'In every parting there is an image of death.'.. George Eliot
'Dunblane Cathedral - I know not of anything so perfect in its simplicity'.. John Ruskin
'People to whom nothing has ever happened cannot understand the unimportance of events.'.. T S Eliot
'In me the tiger sniffs the rose.'.. Siegfried Sassoon
'The difference between a bad artist and a good one is: the bad artist seems to copy a great deal; the good one really does'.. William Blake
'The saddest thing I can imagine is to get used to luxury.'.. Charlie Chaplin
'Critics! Those cut-throat bandits in the paths of fame.'.. Robert Burns
'Nurture your minds with great thoughts. To believe in the heroic makes heroes'.. Benjamin Disraeli
'Virtue is the fount whence honour springs.'.. Christopher Marlowe
'If there ever comes a day when we can't be together, keep me in your heart, I'll stay there forever.'.. A A Milne
'They say an actor is only as good as his parts. Well my parts have done me pretty well'.. Barbara Windsor
'That we must all die, we always knew; I wish I had remembered it sooner.'.. Samuel Johnson
'In the old days men had the rack. Now they have the Press'.. Oscar Wilde
'Health is the state about which medicine has nothing to say.'.. W H Auden
'There might be 1 finger on the button, but there will be 15 fingers on the safety catch'.. Harold Macmillan
'I don't watch television, I think it destroys the art of talking about oneself.'.. Stephen Fry
'I find Cambridge an asylum, in every sense of the word.'.. A E Housman
'Almost all crime is due to the repressed desire for aesthetic expression.'.. Evelyn Waugh