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Famous British Quotes
'There will always be an England even if its in Hollywood'.. Bob Hope
'When childhood dies, its corpses are called adults.'.. Brian Aldiss
'People say it gets better but it doesn't. It just gets different, that's all.'.. Maggie Smith
'Pleasure is none, if not diversified.'.. John Donne
'All men would be tyrants if they could.'.. Daniel Defoe
'There can be no liberty unless there is economic liberty.'.. Margaret Thatcher
'Show me the man you honor, and I will know what kind of man you are.'.. Thomas Carlyle
'I have never had problems with drugs. I have had problems with the police....'.. Keith Richards
'I think we have all experienced passion that is not in any sense reasonable.'.. Stephen Fry
'I'll go through life either first class or third, but never in second.'.. Noel Coward
'Time you enjoy wasting, was not wasted.'.. John Lennon
'All conservatism is based upon the idea that if you leave things alone you leave them as they are. But you do not. If you leave a thing alone you leave it to a torrent of change'.. GK Chesterton
'Virtue is the fount whence honour springs.'.. Christopher Marlowe
'To me there has never been a higher source of earthly honor or distinction than that connected with advances in science'.. Isaac Newton
'My Father had a profound influence on me, he was a lunatic.'.. Spike Milligan
'In heaven an angel is nobody in particular.'.. George Bernard Shaw
'Youth would be an ideal state if it came a little later in life'.. Herbert Henry Asquith
'He has all of the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.'.. Winston Churchill
'The delicate balance between modesty and conceit is popularity.'.. Max Beerbohm
'It is a dangerous thing to have instant access to your emotions.'.. Dennis Potter
'Cast is everything.'.. Ridley Scott
'Until you understand a writer's ignorance, presume yourself ignorant of his understanding'.. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
'Nothing shows up the difference between the things said or read, so much as the daily experience of it'.. Vita Sackville-West
'Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown.'.. William Shakespeare
'Great is the hand that holds dominion over man by a scribbled name.'.. Dylan Thomas
'The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost.'.. GK Chesterton
'The highest possible stage in moral culture is when we recognize that we ought to control our thoughts.'.. Charles Darwin
'A poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language.'.. W H Auden
'I found longer races boring. I found the mile just perfect.'.. Roger Bannister
'Writers should be read, but neither seen nor heard.'.. Daphne du Maurier