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Famous British Quotes
'I don't need you to remind me of my age. I have a bladder to do that for me.'.. Stephen Fry
'I found longer races boring. I found the mile just perfect.'.. Roger Bannister
'I wonder if anyone will ever know the emptiness of my life. Personal Diary -- Last entry "Oh what's the point?"'.. Kenneth Williams
'All autobiography is self-indulgent.'.. Daphne du Maurier
'Most sets of values would give rise to universes that, although they might be very beautiful, would contain no one able to wonder at that beauty.'.. Stephen Hawking
'A man must make his opportunity, as oft as find it.'.. Sir Francis Bacon
'To refuse awards is another way of accepting them with more noise than is normal'.. Peter Ustinov
'Art is our chief means of breaking bread with the dead.'.. W H Auden
'Never in the way, and never out of the way.'.. Charles II
'I don't pretend we have all the answers. But the questions are certainly worth thinking about.'.. Arthur C Clarke
'Success is the child of audacity.'.. Benjamin Disraeli
'The greatest man is he who forms the taste of a nation; the next greatest is he who corrupts it.'.. Joshua Reynolds
'You'll find that empty vessels make the most sound'.. John Lydon (Johnny Rotten)
'The palace is not safe when the cottage is not happy.'.. Benjamin Disraeli
'Nurture your minds with great thoughts. To believe in the heroic makes heroes'.. Benjamin Disraeli
'If we don't end war, war will end us.'.. H G Wells
'There is no such thing as darkness; only a failure to see.'.. Malcolm Muggeridge
'The snowdrop and primrose our woodlands adorn, and violets bathe in the wet o' the morn.'.. Robert Burns
'Economic advance is not the same thing as human progress'.. John Clapham
'It is easy to answer the ultimate questions - it saves you bothering with the immediate ones.'.. John Osborne
'Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead'.. Oscar Wilde
'I have frequently gained my first real insight into the character of parents by studying their children'.. Arthur Conan Doyle
'An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered'.. GK Chesterton
'Marriage: A friendship recognized by the police.'.. Robert Louis Stevenson
'Time is everything; five minutes make the difference between victory and defeat'.. Horatio Nelson
'I am acquainted with no immaterial sensuality so delightful as good acting'.. Lord Byron
'Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown.'.. William Shakespeare
'I don't ever blink, honestly.'.. Ridley Scott
'I have measured out my life with coffee spoons.'.. T S Eliot
'A painter must think of everything he sees as being there entirely for his own use and pleasure.'.. Lucien Freud