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Famous British Quotes
'Men will pay large sums to whores for telling them they are not bores.'.. W H Auden
'As far as I am concerned the paint is the person. I want it to work for me just as flesh does.'.. Lucien Freud
'People to whom nothing has ever happened cannot understand the unimportance of events.'.. T S Eliot
'There are two freedoms - the false, where a man is free to do what he likes; the true, where he is free to do what he ought.'.. Charles Kingsley
'I try to avoid looking forward or backward, and try to keep looking upward.'.. Charlotte Bronte
'I am prepared for the worst, but hope for the best.'.. Benjamin Disraeli
'Everyone ought to bear patiently the results of his own conduct.'.. William Shakespeare
'If we open a quarrel between past and present, we shall find that we have lost the future'.. Winston Churchill
'Fear is the mother of foresight.'.. Thomas Hardy
'I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite'.. GK Chesterton
'A loving heart is the truest wisdom.'.. Charles Dickens
'Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant'.. Robert Louis Stevenson
'A day without laughter is a day wasted.'.. Charlie Chaplin
'There is a condition worse than blindness, and that is, seeing something that isn't there.'.. Thomas Hardy
'The greatest tragedy in mankind's entire history may be the hijacking of morality by religion'.. Arthur C Clarke
'An idea, like a ghost, must be spoken to a little before it will explain itself.'.. Charles Dickens
'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
'Television enables you to be entertained in your home by people you wouldn't have in your home.'.. David Frost
'Every man over forty is a scoundrel.'.. George Bernard Shaw
'We shape our buildings; thereafter they shape us.'.. Winston Churchill
'We dont know much about the human conscience except that its soluble in alcohol'.. Sir John Mortimer
'Genius at first is little more than a great capacity for receiving discipline'.. George Eliot
'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
'Life, an age to the miserable, and a moment to the happy.'.. Sir Francis Bacon
'Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past'.. George Orwell
'Think globally, act locally.'.. Paul McCartney
'Peace rules the day, where reason rules the mind.'.. Wilkie Collins
'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
'I can calculate the motion of heavenly bodies, but not the madness of people'.. Isaac Newton
'Have you ever noticed? Anybody going slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than you is a maniac'.. Ronnie Corbett