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Famous British Quotes
'All I need to make a comedy is a park, a policeman and a pretty girl.'.. Charlie Chaplin
'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
'Nothing is too wonderful to be true if it be consistent with the laws of nature'.. Michael Faraday
'A person who is gifted sees the essential point and leaves the rest as surplus.'.. Thomas Carlyle
'Make yourself an honest man, and then you may be sure there is one less rascal in the world'.. Thomas Carlyle
'Better not be at all than not be noble.'.. Alfred Lord Tennyson
'If a man's wit be wandering, let him study the mathematics.'.. Sir Francis Bacon
'The finest eloquence is that which gets things done.'.. David Lloyd George
'I am not struck so much by the diversity of testimony as by the many-sidedness of truth.'.. Stanley Baldwin
'Don't clap too hard - it's a very old building.'.. John Osborne
'No violent extreme endures.'.. Thomas Carlyle
'I am not conceited. It is just that I have a fondness for the good things in life and I happen to be one of them'.. Kenneth Williams
'It's bad taste to be wise all the time, like being at a perpetual funeral.'.. D H Lawrence
'Man's silence is wonderful to listen to.'.. Thomas Hardy
'Why buy a book when you can join a library'.. Ricky Gervais
'If I have done the public any service, it is due to my patient thought'.. Isaac Newton
'I could not live in a country so miserable as to possess no castles'.. John Ruskin
'The whole annual produce of the land and labour of every country...naturally divides itself into three parts; the rent of the land, the wages of labour, and the profits of stock'.. Adam Smith
'I keep seeing myself in my daughter, and I see my mother in me and in her. Bloody hell.'.. Julie Walters
'Dunblane Cathedral - I know not of anything so perfect in its simplicity'.. John Ruskin
'Any truth is better than indefinite doubt.'.. Arthur Conan Doyle
'Curiosity is one of the most permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous intellect'.. Samuel Johnson
'It is not how much one makes but to what purpose one spends.'.. John Ruskin
'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
'Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others.'.. Robert Louis Stevenson
'A mother is a mother still, The holiest thing alive.'.. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
'As with the Christian religion, the worst advertisement for Socialism is its adherents'.. George Orwell
'I think to be oversensitive about cliches is like being oversensitive about table manners.'.. Evelyn Waugh
'People always make war when they say they love peace.'.. D H Lawrence
'It is a farce to call any being virtuous whose virtues do not result from the exercise of it's own reason'.. Mary Shelley