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Famous British Quotes
'Anybody who's been married to a man for forty odd years knows he's all talk'.. Michael Parkinson
'Sometimes we stare so long at a door that is closing that we see too late the one that is open.'.. Alexander Graham Bell
'Do noble things, not dream them all day long.'.. Charles Kingsley
'Tact is the art of making a point without making an enemy.'.. Isaac Newton
'The greatest pleasure I know is to do a good action by stealth and have it found out by accident.'.. Charles Lamb
'A desperate disease requires a dangerous remedy'.. Guy Fawkes
'Believe there is a great power silently working all things for good, behave yourself and never mind the rest.'.. Beatrix Potter
'I should like to say that good batsman are born, not made; but my long experience comes up before me, and tells me that it is not so.'.. W G Grace
'Criticism, that fine flower of personal expression in the garden of letters'.. Joseph Conrad
'It is the mark of a truly intelligent person to be moved by statistics'.. George Bernard Shaw
'I think childhood is to everyone a lost land.'.. Dennis Potter
'A gentleman is one who never hurts anyone's feelings unintentionally'.. Oscar Wilde
'How you think when you lose determines how long it will be until you win'.. GK Chesterton
'A lot of football success is in the mind. You must believe you are the best and then make sure that you are.'.. Bill Shankly
'The important thing is to know how to take all things quietly.'.. Michael Faraday
'One of the things being in politics has taught me is that men are not a reasoned or reasonable sex'.. Margaret Thatcher
'Science is the great antidote to the poison of enthusiasm and superstition.'.. Adam Smith
'I do not believe that any man fears to be dead, but only the stroke of death'.. Sir Francis Bacon
'Credit is a system whereby a person who can not pay gets another person who can not pay to guarantee that he can pay.'.. Charles Dickens
'We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience'.. George Bernard Shaw
'A man seldom thinks with more earnestness of anything than he does of his dinner'.. Samuel Johnson
'No violent extreme endures.'.. Thomas Carlyle
'A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men.'.. Roald Dahl
'The average Englishman goes 6 months without crying depending on the Football results'.. Frank Skinner
'Even as a junkie I stayed true [to vegetarianism] - 'I shall have heroin, but I shan't have a hamburger.' What a sexy little paradox'.. Russell Brand
'I wouldn't mind seeing China if I could come back the same day.'.. Philip Larkin
'Why are women... so much more interesting to men than men are to women?'.. Virginia Woolf
'If I were to choose where I was to die it would be in the herbaceous border'.. Miriam Stoppard
'You know, somebody actually complimented me on my driving today. They left a little note on the windscreen, it said 'Parking Fine.''.. Tommy Cooper
'Nothing is pleasant that is not spiced with variety.'.. Sir Francis Bacon