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Famous British Quotes
'The age of chivalry is past. Bores have succeeded to dragons.'.. Charles Dickens
'A dog is for life and not just for christmas so do be careful at the office party'.. Jimmy Carr
'You cannot teach old dogs new tricks.'.. Joseph Chamberlain
'People who insist on telling their dreams are among the terrors of the breakfast table'.. Max Beerbohm
'A real book is not one that we read, but one that reads us.'.. W H Auden
'All the world over, I will back the masses against the classes.'.. W E Gladstone
'Old Professors never die, they just lose their faculties.'.. Stephen Fry
'Fortunate indeed the child who first sees the light of day in that romantic town'.. Andrew Carnegie
'Progress is not an illusion, it happens, but it is slow and invariably disappointing'.. George Orwell
'History is written by the victors.'.. Winston Churchill
'I`ve arrived, and to prove it, I`m here.'.. Max Bygraves
'In politics, there is no use looking beyond the next fortnight.'.. Joseph Chamberlain
'Papa, potatoes, poultry, prunes and prism, are all very good words for the lips.'.. Charles Dickens
'my words are my own, and my actions are my ministers'.. Charles II
'Gentlemen, when the enemy is committed to a mistake we must not interrupt him too soon'.. Horatio Nelson
'Life’s never a postcard of life, is it? It never feels like how you’d want it to look'.. Russell Brand
'The perfect love affair is one which is conducted entirely by post.'.. George Bernard Shaw
'I can imagine no more comfortable frame of mind than a humorous resignation'.. Somerset Maugham
'Adventure is not outside man; it is within.'.. George Eliot
'The sound of laughter is the most civilised music in the world'.. Peter Ustinov
'I am afraid we must make the world honest before we can honestly say to our children that honesty is the best policy'.. George Bernard Shaw
'The performances you have in your head are always much better than the performances on stage'.. Maggie Smith
'The creative habit is like a drug. The particular obsession changes, but the excitement, the thrill of your creation lasts'.. Henry Moore
'A toddling little girl is a centre of common feeling which makes the most dissimilar people understand each other.'.. George Eliot
'Science is the great antidote to the poison of enthusiasm and superstition.'.. Adam Smith
'All meanings, we know, depend on the key of interpretation.'.. George Eliot
'Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.'.. George Bernard Shaw
'It is our responsibilities, not ourselves, that we should take seriously.'.. Peter Ustinov
'Life is what happens while you are busy making other plans.'.. John Lennon
'The first and simplest emotion which we discover in the human mind, is curiosity.'.. Edmund Burke