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Famous British Quotes
'Science must have originated in the feeling that something was wrong.'.. Thomas Carlyle
'Man is the only creature that consumes without producing. He does not give milk, he does not lay eggs, he is too weak to pull the plough, he cannot run fast enough to catch rabbits. Yet he is lord of all the animals'.. George Orwell
'Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal.'.. T S Eliot
'We wander for distraction, but we travel for fulfillment.'.. Hilaire Belloc
'When you reach the top, that's when the climb begins.'.. Michael Caine
'Spoon feeding in the long run teaches us nothing but the shape of the spoon.'.. E M Forster
'You shall judge a man by his foes as well as by his friends.'.. Joseph Conrad
'My boyfriend had a sex manual but he was dyslexic. I was lying there and he was looking for my vinegar'.. Victoria Wood
'Are you going to come quietly, or do I have to use earplugs?'.. Spike Milligan
'Conviction is worthless unless it is converted into conduct.'.. Thomas Carlyle
'Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.'.. Winston Churchill
'I am acquainted with no immaterial sensuality so delightful as good acting'.. Lord Byron
'It is the heart always that sees, before the head can see.'.. Thomas Carlyle
'I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by.'.. Douglas Adams
'A gentleman is one who never hurts anyone's feelings unintentionally'.. Oscar Wilde
'Faith is a passionate intuition.'.. William Wordsworth
'Civilisation is the distance man has put between himself and his excreta'.. Brian Aldiss
'Economic advance is not the same thing as human progress'.. John Clapham
'An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have. The older she gets the more interested he is in her.'.. Agatha Christie
'Confidence is a plant of slow growth in an aged heart.'.. William Pitt (The Younger)
'Bournemouth is one of the few English towns that one can safely call 'her''.. John Betjeman
'History is a cyclic poem written by time upon the memories of man'.. Percy Bysshe Shelley
'When you've seen a nude infant doing a backward somersault you know why clothing exists'.. Stephen Fry
'Tolerance is another word for indifference.'.. Somerset Maugham
'Nature uses as little as possible of anything'.. Alan Bleasdale
'Man's silence is wonderful to listen to.'.. Thomas Hardy
'I have a great mind to believe in Christianity for the mere pleasure of fancying I may be damned'.. Lord Byron
'It's an honor to be on the same network that gave us 'The Sopranos,' ... They made me an offer I couldn't refuse.'.. Ricky Gervais
'Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely been detected.'.. Oscar Wilde
'Good company and good discourse are the very sinews of virtue.'.. Izaak Walton