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Famous British Quotes
'Sometimes when you're drunk you can see better.'.. Damien Hirst
'Fill your paper with the breathings of your heart.'.. William Wordsworth
'I used to look at these pictures of trumpeters pointing their instrument to the ceiling. Stunning pictures, but if you play the trumpet and point it upwards, all the spit comes back into your mouth!'.. Humphrey Lyttleton
'Art has to move you and design does not, unless it's a good design for a bus.'.. David Hockney
'Do not allow to slip away from you freedoms the people who came before you won with such hard knocks.'.. D H Lawrence
'A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool'.. William Shakespeare
'Peace rules the day, where reason rules the mind.'.. Wilkie Collins
'In love as in sport, the amateur status must be strictly maintained.'.. Robert Graves
'It is the mark of a truly intelligent person to be moved by statistics'.. George Bernard Shaw
'I'd like to grow very old as slowly as possible.'.. Charles Lamb
'Everything government touches turns to crap.'.. Ringo Starr
'Jealousy is the jaundice of the soul.'.. John Dryden
'Deprivation is for me what daffodils were for Wordsworth.'.. Philip Larkin
'A public schoolboy must be acceptable at a dance and invaluable in a shipwreck'.. Alan Bennett
'I do not believe that any man fears to be dead, but only the stroke of death'.. Sir Francis Bacon
'People who say it cannot be done should not interrupt those who are doing it'.. George Bernard Shaw
'It took me years to understand that words are often as important as experience, because words make experience last'.. William Morris
'There is a condition worse than blindness, and that is, seeing something that isn't there.'.. Thomas Hardy
'Every absurdity has a champion to defend it.'.. Oliver Goldsmith
'Man's silence is wonderful to listen to.'.. Thomas Hardy
'The greatest tragedy in mankind's entire history may be the hijacking of morality by religion'.. Arthur C Clarke
'Every dog must have his day.'.. Jonathan Swift
'A horse is dangerous at both ends and uncomfortable in the middle.'.. Ian Fleming
'I am in that temper that if I were under water I would scarcely kick to come to the top'.. John Keats
'Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested.'.. Sir Francis Bacon
'I like work; it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours.'.. Jerome K Jerome
'Life has a practice of living you, if you don't live it.'.. Philip Larkin
'I'm all in favour of free expression provided it's kept rigidly under control.'.. Alan Bennett
'I have measured out my life with coffee spoons.'.. T S Eliot
'Having a great intellect is no path to being happy.'.. Stephen Fry