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Famous British Quotes
'All men would be tyrants if they could.'.. Daniel Defoe
'It is very good advice to believe only what an artist does, rather than what he says about his work.'.. David Hockney
'I like the ephemeral thing about theatre, every performance is like a ghost - it's there and then it's gone'.. Maggie Smith
'The land of my fathers. My fathers can have it.'.. Dylan Thomas
'Everyone ought to bear patiently the results of his own conduct.'.. William Shakespeare
'I am told that I talk in shorthand and then smudge it.'.. J R R Tolkien
'I venture to say no war can be long carried on against the will of the people.'.. Edmund Burke
'I dont hold with abroad and think foreigners speak English when our backs are turned'.. Quentin Crisp
'I need no dictionary of quotations to remind me that the eyes are the windows of the soul'.. Max Beerbohm
'Life is a comedy for those who think... and a tragedy for those who feel'.. Horace Walpole
'One cannot really be a Catholic and grown up.'.. George Orwell
'We should have a great fewer disputes in the world if words were taken for what they are, the signs of our ideas only, and not for things themselves.'.. John Locke
'All movements go too far.'.. Bertrand Russell
'When a stupid man is doing something he is ashamed of, he always declares that it is his duty.'.. George Bernard Shaw
'Necessity dispenseth with decorum.'.. Thomas Carlyle
'There is not in nature, a thing that makes man so deformed, so beastly, as doth intemperate anger.'.. Alan Bleasdale
'Ambition is not what man does... but what man would do.'.. Robert Browning
'Women are for bastmen, beer is for bowlers. God help the all-rounders!'.. Fred Trueman
'There are some ideas so wrong that only a very intelligent person could believe in them'.. George Orwell
'All fantasy should have a solid base in reality.'.. Max Beerbohm
'As with the Christian religion, the worst advertisement for Socialism is its adherents'.. George Orwell
'Youth would be an ideal state if it came a little later in life'.. Herbert Henry Asquith
'Of all acts of man repentance is the most divine. The greatest of all faults is to be conscious of none'.. Thomas Carlyle
'Not on one strand are all life's jewels strung.'.. William Morris
'I think I am a child. Everything blows my mind.'.. Marc Bolan
'By gnawing through a dike, even a rat may drown a nation.'.. Edmund Burke
'Parliament must not be told a direct untruth, but it's quite possible to allow them to mislead themselves'.. Norman Tebbit
'Life is far too important a thing ever to talk seriously about.'.. Oscar Wilde
'The world is like a grand staircase, some are going up and some are going down.'.. Samuel Johnson
'Give the enemy not only a road for flight, but also a means of defending it.'.. Thomas Hardy