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Famous British Quotes
'Confidence is a plant of slow growth in an aged heart.'.. William Pitt (The Younger)
'My family pride is something inconceivable. I can't help it. I was born sneering.'.. W S Gilbert
'Gentlemen, when the enemy is committed to a mistake we must not interrupt him too soon'.. Horatio Nelson
'Go as far as you can see; when you get there you'll be able to see farther.'.. Thomas Carlyle
'One's life has many compartments.'.. Harold Pinter
'If everyone demanded peace instead of another television set, then there'd be peace.'.. John Lennon
'As usual, there is a great woman behind every idiot.'.. John Lennon
'I hate people who think it's clever to take drugs... like custom officers'.. Jack Dee
'Coincidences are spiritual puns.'.. GK Chesterton
'Pleasure is none, if not diversified.'.. John Donne
'I would like to take you seriously, but to do so would be an affront to your intelligence'.. George Bernard Shaw
'An actor is something less than a man, while an actress is something more than a woman.'.. Richard Burton
'Adapt or perish, now as ever, is nature's inexorable imperative.'.. H G Wells
'I'd the upbringing a nun would envy. Until I was fifteen I was more familiar with Africa than my own body'.. Joe Orton
'If you don't believe in God, all you have to believe in is decency.'.. Harold Macmillan
'If you aren't in over your head, how do you know how tall you are?'.. T S Eliot
'I think I am a child. Everything blows my mind.'.. Marc Bolan
'What really matters is what you do with what you have.'.. H G Wells
'Nothing made by brute force lasts.'.. Robert Louis Stevenson
'It was such a lovely day I thought it was a pity to get up'.. Somerset Maugham
'I'll go through life either first class or third, but never in second.'.. Noel Coward
'The news is always bad, even when it sounds good'.. Aldous Huxley
'I have terrible hearing trouble. I have unwittingly helped to invent and refine a type of music that makes its principal proponents deaf.'.. Pete Townshend
'I'm every bourgeois nightmare - a Cockney with intelligence and a million dollars'.. Michael Caine
'Consistency is the last refuge of the unimaginative.'.. Oscar Wilde
'Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown.'.. William Shakespeare
'So many objections may be made to everything, that nothing can overcome them but the necessity of doing something'.. Samuel Johnson
'A poet is a professional maker of verbal objects.'.. W H Auden
'Man has almost constant occasion for the help of his brethren, and it is in vain for him to expect it from their benevolence only.'.. Adam Smith
'My goal is simple. It is a complete understanding of the universe, why it is as it is and why it exists at all.'.. Stephen Hawking