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Famous British Quotes
'Never hold discussions with the monkey when the organ grinder is in the room.'.. Winston Churchill
'I tell my children to avoid theatre and go into cinema and TV.'.. Peter O’Toole
'Those who don't know history are destined to repeat it.'.. Edmund Burke
'All the flower children were as alike as a congress of accountants and about as interesting.'.. Sir John Mortimer
'Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead'.. Oscar Wilde
'No man was ever so completely skilled in the conduct of life, as not to receive new information from age and experience.'.. Jonathan Swift
'There but for the grace of God goes God'.. Winston Churchill
'A man, as a general rule, owes very little to what he is born with - a man is what he makes of himself'.. Alexander Graham Bell
'Whenever a separation is made between liberty and justice, neither, in my opinion, is safe.'.. Edmund Burke
'Militant feminists, I take my hat off to them. They don't like that'.. Milton Jones
'I am not young enough to know everything.'.. Oscar Wilde
'Five minutes on even the nicest mountain is awfully long'.. W H Auden
'Until you understand a writer's ignorance, presume yourself ignorant of his understanding'.. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
'Do not do an immoral thing for moral reasons.'.. Thomas Hardy
'A week is a long time in politics.'.. Harold Wilson
'Her virtue was that she said what she thought, her vice that what she thought didn't amount to much.'.. Peter Ustinov
'Talk of the devil, and his horns appear.'.. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
'A man without a goal is like a ship without a rudder.'.. Thomas Carlyle
'It takes little talent to see what lies under one's nose, a good deal to know in what direction to point that organ.'.. W H Auden
'Reverence is fatal to literature.'.. E M Forster
'I think in terms of the day's resolutions, not the years'.'.. Henry Moore
'The worst of revolutions is a restoration'.. Charles James Fox
'Love is staying up all night with a sick child - or a healthy adult.'.. David Frost
'If a farmer fills his barn with grain, he gets mice. If he leaves it empty, he gets actors'.. Walter Scott
'The length of a film should be directly determined by the endurance of the human bladder'.. Alfred Hitchcock
'Look twice before you leap.'.. Charlotte Bronte
'Unless we remember we cannot understand.'.. E M Forster
'Do not try to live forever. You will not succeed.'.. George Bernard Shaw
'I am told that I talk in shorthand and then smudge it.'.. J R R Tolkien
'Nature never did betray the heart that loved her.'.. William Wordsworth