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Famous British Quotes
'The more highly public life is organized the lower does its morality sink'.. E M Forster
'A bachelor's life is a fine breakfast, a flat lunch, and a miserable dinner.'.. Sir Francis Bacon
'One half of the world cannot understand the other halfs pleasures'.. Jane Austen
'Those who have no hope pass their old age shrouded with an inward gloom'.. Wilfred Owen
'The love of a mother is the veil of a softer light between the heart and the heavenly Father'.. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
'Money doesn't mind if we say it's evil, it goes from strength to strength. It's a fiction, an addiction, and a tacit conspiracy'.. Martin Amis
'That we must all die, we always knew; I wish I had remembered it sooner.'.. Samuel Johnson
'If you think squash is a competitive activity, try flower arranging.'.. Alan Bennett
'Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few.'.. Winston Churchill
'Comedy, we may say, is society protecting itself - with a smile.'.. J B Priestley
'A man's as old as he's feeling. A woman as old as she looks.'.. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
'Language is not only the vehicle of thought, it is a great and efficient instrument in thinking'.. Humphry Davy
'Only a mediocre person is always at his best.'.. Somerset Maugham
'Riches are a good hand maiden, but a poor mistress.'.. Sir Francis Bacon
'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
'A man's friendships are one of the best measures of his worth.'.. Charles Darwin
'It does not do to leave a live dragon out of your calculations, if you live near him'.. J R R Tolkien
'Science is the great antidote to the poison of enthusiasm and superstition.'.. Adam Smith
'Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.'.. T S Eliot
'Papa, potatoes, poultry, prunes and prism, are all very good words for the lips.'.. Charles Dickens
'Like all great travellers, I have seen more than I remember, and remember more than I have seen.'.. Benjamin Disraeli
'He that will enjoy the brightness of sunshine, must quit the coolness of the shade'.. Samuel Johnson
'So much of left-wing thought is a kind of playing with fire by people who don't even know that fire is hot'.. George Orwell
'Punctuality is the virtue of the bored.'.. Evelyn Waugh
'The principle of the Gothic architecture is infinity made imaginable.'.. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
'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
'The world is a stage, but the play is badly cast.'.. Oscar Wilde
'War against a foreign country only happens when the moneyed classes think they are going to profit from it'.. George Orwell
'Age is a very high price to pay for maturity.'.. Sir Tom Stoppard
'The difference between a bad artist and a good one is: the bad artist seems to copy a great deal; the good one really does'.. William Blake