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Famous British Quotes
'Five minutes on even the nicest mountain is awfully long'.. W H Auden
'Old Professors never die, they just lose their faculties.'.. Stephen Fry
'Friendship is Love without his wings'.. Lord Byron
'Like most of those who study history, he (Napoleon III) learned from the mistakes of the past how to make new ones.'.. A J P Taylor
'Better three hours too soon than a minute too late.'.. William Shakespeare
'All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players'.. William Shakespeare
''Hearty Homely loving Hertford''.. Charles Lamb
'Biography lends to death a new terror'.. Oscar Wilde
'My reputation grows with every failure.'.. George Bernard Shaw
'Put three Englishmen on a desert island and within an hour they will have invented a class system'.. Alan Ayckbourn
'It was easier to conquer it than to know what to do with it.'.. Horace Walpole
'When one burns one's bridges, what a very nice fire it makes.'.. Dylan Thomas
'Every increased possession loads us with a new weariness.'.. John Ruskin
'If you feel that life is one of Gods jokes there is still no reason not to make it a good oke'.. Kenneth Williams
'All sympathy not consistent with acknowledged virtue is but disguised selfishness'.. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
'We started off trying to set up a small anarchist community, but people wouldn't obey the rules.'.. Alan Bennett
'In modern business it is not the crook who is to be feared most, it is the honest man who doesn't know what he is doing'.. William Wordsworth
'How paramount the future is to the present when one is surrounded by children.'.. Charles Darwin
'Invention, it must be humbly admitted, does not consist in creating out of voice, but out of chaos'.. Mary Shelley
'When I am dead, I hope it may be said: His sins were scarlet, but his books were read'.. Hilaire Belloc
'Our true nationality is mankind.'.. H G Wells
'The snowdrop and primrose our woodlands adorn, and violets bathe in the wet o' the morn.'.. Robert Burns
'The overall impression from the British is that they love France but would prefer it if the French didn't live there'.. Sir John Mortimer
'Except a living man, there is nothing more wonderful than a book.'.. Charles Kingsley
'There's nothing as ordinary as to try to be extraodinary'.. Noel Coward
'The greatest problem about old age is the fear that it may go on too long.'.. A J P Taylor
'A laugh, to be joyous, must flow from a joyous heart, for without kindness, there can be no true joy'.. Thomas Carlyle
'The media. It sounds like a convention of spiritualists.'.. Sir Tom Stoppard
'We give advice by the bucket, but take it by the grain.'.. Sir Tom Stoppard
'Its easy to distract fat people. A piece of cake'.. Chris Addison