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Famous British Quotes
'It is very good advice to believe only what an artist does, rather than what he says about his work.'.. David Hockney
'Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.'.. H G Wells
'If you fell down yesterday, stand up today.'.. H G Wells
'One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes a revolution in order to establish a dictatorship'.. George Orwell
'It is only in the world of objects that we have time and space and selves.'.. T S Eliot
'A widespread taste for pornography means that nature is alerting us to some threat of extinction'.. James G Ballard
'Subdue your appetites, my dears, and you've conquered human nature.'.. Charles Dickens
'Everything government touches turns to crap.'.. Ringo Starr
'History is a race between education and catastrophe.'.. H G Wells
'Some people are born to lift heavy weights, some are born to juggle golden balls'.. Max Beerbohm
'Electric communication will never be a substitute for the face of someone who with their soul encourages another person to be brave and true.'.. Charles Dickens
'Show me the man you honor, and I will know what kind of man you are.'.. Thomas Carlyle
'In politics, there is no use looking beyond the next fortnight.'.. Joseph Chamberlain
'Every man at the bottom of his heart believes that he is a born detective.'.. John Buchan
'The poetry of the earth is never dead.'.. John Keats
'The news is always bad, even when it sounds good'.. Aldous Huxley
'The past is a great place and I don't want to erase it or to regret it, but I don't want to be its prisoner either'.. Mick Jagger
'Insecurity, commonly regarded as a weakness in normal people, is the basic tool of the actor's trade'.. Miranda Richardson
'Men think about women. Women think about what men think about them.'.. Peter Ustinov
'Conventionality is not morality.'.. Charlotte Bronte
'Here is my first principle of foreign policy: good government at home'.. W E Gladstone
'In the old days men had the rack. Now they have the Press'.. Oscar Wilde
'The path of least resistance is the path of the loser.'.. H G Wells
'Bachelors have consciences, married men have wives.'.. Samuel Johnson
'All the people like us are we, and everyone else is They.'.. Rudyard Kipling
'A cricketer's life is a life of splendid freedom, healthy effort, endless variety, and delightful good fellowship'.. W G Grace
'Looking back at all the people I have insulted, I am mildly surprised that I am still allowed to exist.'.. Auberon Waugh
'I am acquainted with no immaterial sensuality so delightful as good acting'.. Lord Byron
'Ask the right questions if you're to find the right answers.'.. Vanessa Redgrave
'God never made His work for man to mend.'.. John Dryden