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Famous British Quotes
'Religion stands, the Church blocking the sun.'.. Stephen Spender
'Do not let spacious plans for a new world divert your energies from saving what is left of the old'.. Winston Churchill
'My unhealthy affection for my second daughter has waned. Now I despise all my seven children equally.'.. Evelyn Waugh
'The trouble with children is that they are non-returnable'.. Quentin Crisp
'The most important of my discoveries have been suggested to me by my failures'.. Humphry Davy
'We know what happens to people who stay in the middle of the road. They get run down.'.. Aneurin Bevan
'In London, love and scandal are considered the best sweeteners of tea.'.. John Osborne
'Anything's possible if you've got enough nerve.'.. J K Rowling
'To every action there is always opposed an equal reaction.'.. Isaac Newton
'Insecurity, commonly regarded as a weakness in normal people, is the basic tool of the actor's trade'.. Miranda Richardson
'To sentence a man of true genius, to the drudgery of a school is to put a racehorse on a treadmill'.. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
'Nothing can be beautiful which is not true.'.. John Ruskin
'Make yourself an honest man, and then you may be sure there is one less rascal in the world'.. Thomas Carlyle
'There's no possibility of being witty without a little ill-nature.'.. Richard Sheridan
'Jealousy is the jaundice of the soul.'.. John Dryden
'Thought is the parent of the deed.'.. Thomas Carlyle
'Above our life we love a steadfast friend.'.. Christopher Marlowe
'It's the one thing I actively don't like: just being recognized'.. Ricky Gervais
'I don't need you to remind me of my age. I have a bladder to do that for me.'.. Stephen Fry
'In me the tiger sniffs the rose.'.. Siegfried Sassoon
'I am prepared to go anywhere, provided it be forward.'.. David Livingstone
'The world is like a grand staircase, some are going up and some are going down.'.. Samuel Johnson
'The more highly public life is organized the lower does its morality sink'.. E M Forster
'Paradise Lost is a book that, once put down, is very hard to pick up again.'.. Samuel Johnson
'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
'Youth smiles without any reason. It is one of its chiefest charms.'.. Thomas Gray
'Courage is found in unlikely places.'.. J R R Tolkien
'In politics, there is no use looking beyond the next fortnight.'.. Joseph Chamberlain
'Gossip is what no one claims to like, but everybody enjoys.'.. Joseph Conrad
'Infamy! Infamy! They've all got it in for me!'.. Kenneth Williams