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Famous British Quotes
'Nothing is too wonderful to be true if it be consistent with the laws of nature'.. Michael Faraday
'Idleness, like kisses, to be sweet must be stolen.'.. Jerome K Jerome
'Oh, the tiger will love you. There is no sincerer love than the love of food.'.. George Bernard Shaw
'I always said God was against art and I still believe it.'.. Edward Elgar
'The worlds second worst crime is boredom. The first is being a bore'.. Cecil Beaton
'Love is 2 minutes and 52 seconds of squelching noises'.. John Lydon (Johnny Rotten)
'I love everything that's old, - old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wine'.. Oliver Goldsmith
'Public opinion polls are rather like children in a garden, digging things up all the time to see how they're growing.'.. J B Priestley
'People who say it cannot be done should not interrupt those who are doing it'.. George Bernard Shaw
'Nothing wilts faster than laurels that have been rested upon.'.. Percy Bysshe Shelley
'True it is that covetousness is rich, modesty starves.'.. John Milton
'I have changed. I no longer keep coal in the bath. I keep it in the bidet'.. John Prescott
'Those who don't know history are destined to repeat it.'.. Edmund Burke
'Men judge us by the success of our efforts. God looks at the efforts themselves.'.. Charlotte Bronte
'Religion stands, the Church blocking the sun.'.. Stephen Spender
'A lover without indiscretion is no lover at all.'.. Thomas Hardy
'The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything'.. Oscar Wilde
'I do detest everything which is not perfectly mutual.'.. Lord Byron
'A woman uses her intelligence to find reasons to support her intuition'.. GK Chesterton
'Every dog must have his day.'.. Jonathan Swift
'Sometimes when you're drunk you can see better.'.. Damien Hirst
'A man's friendships are one of the best measures of his worth.'.. Charles Darwin
'A kitten is in the animal world what a rosebud is in the garden.'.. Robert Southey
'No one rises so high as he who knows not whither he is going.'.. Oliver Cromwell
'When it comes to life the critical thing is whether you take things for granted or take them with gratitude'.. GK Chesterton
'The principle of the Gothic architecture is infinity made imaginable.'.. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
'Life is made of ever so many partings welded together.'.. Charles Dickens
'People do not believe lies because they have to, but because they want to'.. Malcolm Muggeridge
'There is a condition worse than blindness, and that is, seeing something that isn't there.'.. Thomas Hardy
'Power without principle is barren, but principle without power is futile'.. Tony Blair