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Famous British Quotes
'A woman is as young as her knees.'.. Mary Quant
'Nothing can be beautiful which is not true.'.. John Ruskin
'If at first you don’t succeed, failure may be your style'.. Quentin Crisp
'I have terrible hearing trouble. I have unwittingly helped to invent and refine a type of music that makes its principal proponents deaf.'.. Pete Townshend
'Rolf Harris is a difficult man to hate but that shouldnt stop us trying'.. A A Gill
'Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.'.. Winston Churchill
'For my part, I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move.'.. Robert Louis Stevenson
'That great Cathedral space which was childhood.'.. Virginia Woolf
'I always admired virtue - but I could never imitate it'.. Charles II
'Society needs to condemn a little more and understand a little less.'.. John Major
'I am the only man who can say he has been in Take That and at least 2 members of the Spice Girls'.. Robbie Williams
'Science must have originated in the feeling that something was wrong.'.. Thomas Carlyle
'There are some things you can't share without ending up liking each other.'.. J K Rowling
'People who insist on telling their dreams are among the terrors of the breakfast table'.. Max Beerbohm
'I don't mind how much my Ministers talk, so long as they do what I say'.. Margaret Thatcher
'Old Professors never die, they just lose their faculties.'.. Stephen Fry
'Henley is the Venice of the South'.. Boris Johnson
'If I had not some strength of will I would make a first class drunkard.'.. Ernest Shackleton
'It is the heart always that sees, before the head can see.'.. Thomas Carlyle
'A woman uses her intelligence to find reasons to support her intuition'.. GK Chesterton
'Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go.'.. Oscar Wilde
'Twin-sister of Religion, Selfishness.'.. Percy Bysshe Shelley
'Our greatest glory consists not in never failing, but in rising every time we fall'.. Oliver Goldsmith
'He that will enjoy the brightness of sunshine, must quit the coolness of the shade'.. Samuel Johnson
'Most human beings have an infinite capacity for taking things for granted'.. Aldous Huxley
'Only in Britain could it be thought a defect to be too clever by half. The probability is that too many people are too stupid by three-quarters.'.. John Major
'Money can't buy love, but it improves your bargaining position.'.. Christopher Marlowe
'It takes courage to make a fool of yourself'.. Charlie Chaplin
'It's difficult isn't it, when you're in a Mosque and everyone's praying and you really enjoy leapfrog'.. Milton Jones
'You don't have to be the Dalai Lama to tell people that life's about change'.. John Cleese