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Famous British Quotes
'Everybody grows but me.'.. Queen Victoria
'Writers should be read, but neither seen nor heard.'.. Daphne du Maurier
'Writing is the supreme solace.'.. Somerset Maugham
'To have news value is to have a tin can tied to one's tail.'.. T E Lawrence
'Media is just a word that has come to mean bad journalism.'.. Graham Greene
'The great advantage of being in a rut is that when one is in a rut one knows exactly where one is'.. Alan Bennett
'Beauty is a short-lived tyranny.'.. George Bernard Shaw
'Difficulties are just things to overcome'.. Ernest Shackleton
'Why are women... so much more interesting to men than men are to women?'.. Virginia Woolf
'No man ever became great or good except through many and great mistakes.'.. W E Gladstone
'Things which do not require effort of some sort are seldom worth having'.. Ivor Novello
'Never trust a man, who when left alone with a tea cosey... Doesn't try it on.'.. Billy Connolly
'Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.'.. Bertrand Russell
'A tavern is a place where madness is sold by the bottle.'.. Jonathan Swift
'Oh, 'tis love, 'tis love that makes the world go round.'.. Lewis Carroll
'I look upon every day to be lost, in which I do not make a new acquaintance'.. Samuel Johnson
'When everyone is somebody, then no one's anybody.'.. W S Gilbert
'I think I am a child. Everything blows my mind.'.. Marc Bolan
'There's no such thing as old age, there is only sorrow'.. Fay Weldon
'To make us love our country, our country ought to be lovely.'.. Edmund Burke
'Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard are sweeter.'.. John Keats
'Tact is the art of making a point without making an enemy.'.. Isaac Newton
'A fanatic is a man who consciously over compensates a secret doubt.'.. Aldous Huxley
'I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat.'.. Winston Churchill
'I see music as one language. If one musical form eats its own tail, it dies. So it needs to be a mongrel, it needs to be hybridised.'.. Sting
'The longer you look at an object, the more abstract it becomes, and, ironically, the more real.'.. Lucien Freud
'A room hung with pictures is a room hung with thoughts.'.. Joshua Reynolds
'We murdered them 0-0.'.. Bill Shankly
'Imagination is a poor matter when it has to part company with understanding'.. Thomas Carlyle
'Now is the age of anxiety.'.. W H Auden