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Famous British Quotes
'Errors are not in the art but in the artificers.'.. Isaac Newton
'Never forget that only dead fish swim with the stream.'.. Malcolm Muggeridge
'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
'Great bodies of people are never responsible for what they do.'.. Virginia Woolf
'Think globally, act locally.'.. Paul McCartney
'I was court-martialled in my absence, and sentenced to death in my absence, so I said they could shoot me in my absence.'.. Thomas Hardy
'You'll find that empty vessels make the most sound'.. John Lydon (Johnny Rotten)
'Wonders will never cease.'.. David Garrick
'Charm, in most men and nearly all women, is a decoration.'.. E M Forster
'For my part, I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move.'.. Robert Louis Stevenson
'If I could I would always work in silence and obscurity, and let my efforts be known by their results.'.. Emily Bronte
'Every blessed one of you feels better for that burst of laughter.'.. Ivor Novello
'You cannot fashion a wit out of two half-wits.'.. Neil Kinnock
'The great advantage of being in a rut is that when one is in a rut one knows exactly where one is'.. Alan Bennett
''Tis love that makes the world go round'.. Charles Dickens
'The most conservative man in this world is the British trade unionist when you want to change him.'.. Ernest Bevin
'Neither a borrower nor a lender be.'.. William Shakespeare
'The printing press is the greatest weapon in the armoury of the modern commander'.. T E Lawrence
'A wonderful fact to reflect upon, that every human creature is constituted to be that profound secret and mystery to every other.'.. Charles Dickens
'The best research for playing a drunk is being a British actor for 20 years'.. Michael Caine
'Don't talk to me about atrocities in war; all war is an atrocity.'.. Lord Kitchener
'I am afraid we must make the world honest before we can honestly say to our children that honesty is the best policy'.. George Bernard Shaw
'Nothing wilts faster than laurels that have been rested upon.'.. Percy Bysshe Shelley
'Most human beings have an infinite capacity for taking things for granted'.. Aldous Huxley
'Every exit is an entry somewhere else.'.. Sir Tom Stoppard
'There is not a more repulsive spectacle than on old man who will not forsake the world, which has already forsaken him.'.. T S Eliot
'Rolf Harris is a difficult man to hate but that shouldnt stop us trying'.. A A Gill
'Failures are finger posts on the road to achievement.'.. C S Lewis
'It is a mistake to think you can solve any major problems just with potatoes'.. Douglas Adams
'I always wanted to be an explorer, but - it seemed I was doomed to be nothing more than a very silly person.'.. Michael Palin