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Famous British Quotes
'Dunblane Cathedral - I know not of anything so perfect in its simplicity'.. John Ruskin
'The best part of a holiday is not so much to be resting yourself as to see all the other fellows busy working'.. Kenneth Grahame
'There is no such thing as darkness; only a failure to see.'.. Malcolm Muggeridge
'No man can be an agnostic who has a sense of humour.'.. E M Forster
'Be just before you are generous.'.. Richard Sheridan
'A mere copier of nature can never produce anything great.'.. Joshua Reynolds
'Golf is so popular simply because it is the best game in the world at which to be bad.'.. A A Milne
'There but for the grace of God goes God'.. Winston Churchill
'There is no such thing as liberty. You only change one sort of domination for another. All we can do is to choose our master.'.. D H Lawrence
'Without tact you can learn nothing.'.. Benjamin Disraeli
'He that hath knowledge spareth his words.'.. Sir Francis Bacon
'We are a small country with a large sense of its own importance'.. David Walliams
'Be not a slave of words.'.. Thomas Carlyle
'It's so easy for propaganda to work, and dissent to be mocked.'.. Harold Pinter
'To have news value is to have a tin can tied to one's tail.'.. T E Lawrence
'You don't have to be the Dalai Lama to tell people that life's about change'.. John Cleese
'Love is staying up all night with a sick child - or a healthy adult.'.. David Frost
'A person who is gifted sees the essential point and leaves the rest as surplus.'.. Thomas Carlyle
'Thieves respect property - they merely wish it to become their property'.. GK Chesterton
'He threatens many that hath injured one'.. Ben Jonson
'I am in that temper that if I were under water I would scarcely kick to come to the top'.. John Keats
'I dont believe in God but I am very interested in Her'.. Arthur C Clarke
'Talking is the disease of age.'.. Ben Jonson
'My family pride is something inconceivable. I can't help it. I was born sneering.'.. W S Gilbert
'I took on the sins of everybody, of a generation, really'.. Christine Keeler
'An author who speaks about their own books is almost as bad as a mother who speaks about her own children.'.. Benjamin Disraeli
'To be blind is not miserable; not to be able to bear blindness, that is miserable'.. John Milton
'I love not man the less, but Nature more.'.. Lord Byron
'A man's as old as he's feeling. A woman as old as she looks.'.. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
'Sometimes we stare so long at a door that is closing that we see too late the one that is open.'.. Alexander Graham Bell