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Famous British Quotes
'Learn from your dreams what you lack.'.. W H Auden
'We think too much and feel too little.'.. Charlie Chaplin
'Ability is sexless'.. Christabel Pankhurst
'The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost.'.. GK Chesterton
'One of the disadvantages of wine is that it makes a man mistake words for thoughts.'.. Samuel Johnson
'Beware of the man who does not return your blow: he neither forgives you nor allows you to forgive yourself'.. George Bernard Shaw
'One leak will sink a ship: and one sin will destroy a sinner.'.. John Bunyan
'In the end, everything is a gag.'.. Charlie Chaplin
'To refuse awards is another way of accepting them with more noise than is normal'.. Peter Ustinov
'I attribute my success to this - I never gave or took any excuse.'.. Florence Nightingale
'An orgy looks particularly alluring seen through the mists of righteous indignation'.. Malcolm Muggeridge
'It is obvious that we can no more explain a passion to a person who has never experienced it than we can explain light to the blind.'.. T S Eliot
'You cannot teach old dogs new tricks.'.. Joseph Chamberlain
'Possession isn't nine-tenths of the law. It's nine-tenths of the problem'.. John Lennon
'Every great person is always being helped by everybody; for their gift is to get good out of all things and all persons.'.. John Ruskin
'The more you understand something, I think the more you can enjoy it.'.. Ricky Gervais
'Mountains are the beginning and the end of all natural scenery.'.. John Ruskin
'Think globally, act locally.'.. Paul McCartney
'If you give up drink and sex, you don't live longer. It just seems longer'.. Clement Freud
'The surest way to fail is not to determine to succeed.'.. Richard Sheridan
'Business today consists in persuading crowds.'.. T S Eliot
'A work of art is the unique result of a unique temperament.'.. Oscar Wilde
'About a month before he died, my grandfather, we covered his back full of lard – after that he went downhill very quickly'.. Milton Jones
'Loyalty is a fine quality, but in excess it fills political graveyards.'.. Neil Kinnock
'From a drop of water a logician could infer the possibility of an Atlantic or a Niagara without having seen or heard of one or the other.'.. Arthur Conan Doyle
'It is better to lose health like a spendthrift than to waste it like a miser.'.. Robert Louis Stevenson
'Oh, to be in England now that April's there.'.. Robert Browning
'For several days after my first book was published, I carried it about in my pocket and took surreptitious peeps at it to make sure the ink had not faded.'.. J M Barrie
'Well, my wife and I were married in a toilet - it was a marriage of convenience!'.. Tommy Cooper
'You cannot antagonize and influence at the same time.'.. John Knox