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Famous British Quotes
'Grey towers of Durham, yet well I loved thy mixed and massive piles'.. Walter Scott
'First law on holes - when you're in one, stop digging!'.. Denis Healey
'I wouldn't dream of taking life as it comes. It may not be colour co-ordinated'.. Julian Clary
'You shall judge a man by his foes as well as by his friends.'.. Joseph Conrad
'Somebody said to me, 'But the Beatles were anti-materialistic.' That's a huge myth. John and I literally used to sit down and say, 'Now, let's write a swimming pool.''.. Paul McCartney
'Our incomes are like our shoes; if too small, they gall and pinch us; but if too large, they cause us to stumble and to trip.'.. John Locke
'Modesty seldom resides in a breast that is not enriched with nobler virtues.'.. Oliver Goldsmith
'Pity those who nature abuses; never those who abuse nature.'.. Richard Sheridan
'Those who don't know history are destined to repeat it.'.. Edmund Burke
'Egotism is the source and summary of all faults and miseries.'.. Thomas Carlyle
'Success - keeping your mind awake and your desire asleep.'.. Walter Scott
'One might well say that mankind is divisible into two great classes: hosts and guests'.. Max Beerbohm
'But the answer to how to live is to stop thinking about it. And just to live. But you're doing that anyway. However you intellectualise it, you still just live.'.. Damien Hirst
'Language ought to be the joint creation of poets and manual workers'.. George Orwell
'The thing about imagination is that by the very act of putting it down, there must be some truth in one's own imagination.'.. Dennis Potter
'If you fell down yesterday, stand up today.'.. H G Wells
'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
'There was no respect for youth when I was young, and now that I am old, there is no respect for age, I missed it coming and going'.. J B Priestley
'The pollen count, now that’s a difficult job. Especially if you’ve got hay fever'.. Milton Jones
'Papa, potatoes, poultry, prunes and prism, are all very good words for the lips.'.. Charles Dickens
'An orgy looks particularly alluring seen through the mists of righteous indignation'.. Malcolm Muggeridge
'What is easy is seldom excellent.'.. Samuel Johnson
'A slavish bondage to parents cramps every faculty of the mind.'.. Mary Shelley
'Ambition may be defined as the willingness to receive any number of hits on the nose'.. Wilfred Owen
'Sometimes we stare so long at a door that is closing that we see too late the one that is open.'.. Alexander Graham Bell
'However I dress it up, I was a spy and I am not proud of it'.. Christine Keeler
'All fantasy should have a solid base in reality.'.. Max Beerbohm
'Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past'.. George Orwell
'As far as I am concerned the paint is the person. I want it to work for me just as flesh does.'.. Lucien Freud
'I cant type but if I could I would rather play the Harpsichord'.. Peter Ustinov