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Famous British Quotes
'There is no such thing as the pursuit of happiness, but there is the discovery of joy'.. Joyce Grenfell
'You'll find that empty vessels make the most sound'.. John Lydon (Johnny Rotten)
'A play should give you something to think about. When I see a play and understand it the first time, then I know it can't be much good.'.. T S Eliot
''May my last breath be drawn from a pipe and exhaled in a pun''.. Charles Lamb
'If everyone demanded peace instead of another television set, then there'd be peace.'.. John Lennon
'I've always said if you want to outwit an Englishman touch him when he doesn't want to be touched'.. Julian Barnes
'Nothing puzzles me more than the time and space; and yet nothing troubles me less.'.. Charles Lamb
'The block of granite which was an obstacle in the pathway of the weak, became a stepping-stone in the pathway of the strong.'.. Thomas Carlyle
'Sex is a momentary itch, love never lets you go.'.. Sir Kingsley Amis
'Think before you speak is criticism's motto; speak before you think, creation's.'.. E M Forster
'The one haunting and exasperatingly lovable city in Scotland'.. Lewis Gibbon
'Their's not to make reply, Their's not to reason why, Their's but to do and die'.. Alfred Lord Tennyson
'Education begins the gentleman, but reading, good company and reflection must finish him.'.. John Locke
'Love is blind.'.. Geoffrey Chaucer
'I don't believe one grows older. I think that what happens early on in life is that at a certain age one stands still and stagnates.'.. T S Eliot
'An American monkey, after getting drunk on brandy, would never touch it again, and thus is much wiser than most men.'.. Charles Darwin
'Selfishness is the greatest curse of the human race.'.. W E Gladstone
'To have news value is to have a tin can tied to one's tail.'.. T E Lawrence
'If we open a quarrel between past and present, we shall find that we have lost the future'.. Winston Churchill
'Whichever party is in office, the Treasury is in power.'.. Harold Wilson
'Being pregnant is an occupational hazard of being a wife.'.. Queen Victoria
'If I have done the public any service, it is due to my patient thought'.. Isaac Newton
'A day without laughter is a day wasted.'.. Charlie Chaplin
'Fortune brings in some boats that are not steered.'.. William Shakespeare
'All slang is metaphor, and all metaphor is poetry.'.. GK Chesterton
'Summer has set in with its usual severity'.. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
'England has always been disinclined to accept human nature.'.. E M Forster
'Life turned out much better than I thought. I knew after a little while that I could act.'.. Peter O’Toole
'We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.'.. Winston Churchill
'All money is a matter of belief.'.. Adam Smith