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Famous British Quotes
'Before you can do something you must first be something.'.. John Gielgud
'Arrange whatever pieces come your way.'.. Virginia Woolf
'It is in men as in soils where sometimes there is a vein of gold which the owner knows not'.. Jonathan Swift
'To make us love our country, our country ought to be lovely.'.. Edmund Burke
'One's life has many compartments.'.. Harold Pinter
'There is no such thing as darkness; only a failure to see.'.. Malcolm Muggeridge
'The kind of people who always go on about whether a thing is in good taste invariably have very bad taste'.. Joe Orton
'The sort of poetry I seek resides in objects man can't touch.'.. E M Forster
'There can be no liberty unless there is economic liberty.'.. Margaret Thatcher
'Immortality is really desirable, I guess. In terms of images, anyway.'.. Damien Hirst
'Vices are sometimes only virtues carried to excess!'.. Charles Dickens
'Comedy, we may say, is society protecting itself - with a smile.'.. J B Priestley
'Heroes, whatever high ideas we may have of them, are mortal and not divine. We are all as God made us and many of us much worse.'.. John Osborne
'Some people are born to lift heavy weights, some are born to juggle golden balls'.. Max Beerbohm
'Sleep, that deplorable curtailment of the joy of life.'.. Virginia Woolf
'Invention, it must be humbly admitted, does not consist in creating out of voice, but out of chaos'.. Mary Shelley
'A master of improvised speech and improvised policies.'.. A J P Taylor
'To myself I am only a child playing on the beach, while vast oceans of truth lie undiscovered before me'.. Isaac Newton
'I think that by ignoring the show you're ignoring the audience who put you there'.. Simon Cowell
'Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children.'.. George Bernard Shaw
'Great discoveries and improvements invariably involve the cooperation of many minds'.. Alexander Graham Bell
'If a nation could not prosper without the enjoyment of perfect liberty and perfect justice, there is not in the world a nation which could ever have prospered.'.. Adam Smith
'Islington is about as far as you can get from London without needing yellow-fever jabs'.. A A Gill
'I am told that I talk in shorthand and then smudge it.'.. J R R Tolkien
'Elegance is inferior to virtue.'.. Mary Shelley
'If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.'.. Virginia Woolf
'This report, by its very length, defends itself against the risk of being read.'.. Winston Churchill
'Circumstances are beyond human control, but our conduct is in our own power.'.. Benjamin Disraeli
'A diplomat is a man who thinks twice before he says nothing.'.. Edward Heath
'Art can never exist without naked beauty displayed.'.. William Blake