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Famous British Quotes
'Feelings are like chemicals, the more you analyze them the worse they smell.'.. Charles Kingsley
'I have a face like the behind of an elephant.'.. Charles Laughton
'Every time you liberate a woman, you liberate a man'.. Emmeline Pankhurst
'It is the test of a good religion whether you can joke about it.'.. GK Chesterton
'To most men experience is like the stern lights of a ship, which illuminate only the track it has passed.'.. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
'The more I see the less I know for sure.'.. John Lennon
'The courage we desire and prize is not the courage to die decently, but to live manfully'.. Thomas Carlyle
'If the best man's faults were written on his forehead, he would draw his hat over his eyes.'.. Thomas Gray
'My goal is simple. It is a complete understanding of the universe, why it is as it is and why it exists at all.'.. Stephen Hawking
'With two small children, I haven't had a wash since 2001 so the chance to go shopping is way down the list. It is something I do intend to get'.. Jo Brand
'Five minutes on even the nicest mountain is awfully long'.. W H Auden
'The only statistics you can trust are the ones who can falsify yourself'.. Winston Churchill
'All men have an instinct for conflict: at least, all healthy men.'.. Hilaire Belloc
'If you feel depressed or let down my advice is to roast a chicken'.. Delia Smith
'Pictures deface walls more often than they decorate them.'.. William Wordsworth
'We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.'.. Winston Churchill
'The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost.'.. GK Chesterton
'Dancing is a perpendicular expression of a horizontal desire.'.. George Bernard Shaw
'I don't mind how much my Ministers talk, so long as they do what I say'.. Margaret Thatcher
'I`ve arrived, and to prove it, I`m here.'.. Max Bygraves
'A prudent question is one-half of wisdom.'.. Sir Francis Bacon
'The limits of the possible can only be defined by going beyond them into the impossible.'.. Arthur C Clarke
'I always said God was against art and I still believe it.'.. Edward Elgar
'A room hung with pictures is a room hung with thoughts.'.. Joshua Reynolds
'Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other.'.. Edmund Burke
'A laugh, to be joyous, must flow from a joyous heart, for without kindness, there can be no true joy'.. Thomas Carlyle
'Great literature should do some good to the reader: must quicken his perception though dull, and sharpen his discrimination though blunt, and mellow the rawness of his personal opinions'.. A E Housman
'Why buy a book when you can join a library'.. Ricky Gervais
'The most important of my discoveries have been suggested to me by my failures'.. Humphry Davy
'Dinner parties are given most in the middle classes by way of revenge'.. William M Thackeray