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Famous British Quotes
'If you are ever in doubt as to whether to kiss a pretty girl, always give her the benefit of the doubt.'.. Thomas Carlyle
'The martyr sacrifices themselves entirely in vain. Or rather not in vain; for they make the narrow narrower'.. Florence Nightingale
'There are some things only intellectuals are crazy enough to believe'.. George Orwell
'Live as long as you may, the first twenty years are the longest half of your life.'.. Robert Southey
'The greatest good you can do for another is not just to share your riches but to reveal to him his own.'.. Benjamin Disraeli
'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
'A puritan is a person who pours righteous indignation into the wrong things'.. GK Chesterton
'No man is good enough to be another's master.'.. William Morris
'The only rule I have found to have any validity in writing is not to bore yourself.'.. Sir John Mortimer
'Regrets are the natural property of grey hairs.'.. Charles Dickens
'The fact of the matter is that most actors are shy people.'.. Roger Moore
'Before you can do something you must first be something.'.. John Gielgud
'This is the first age that's ever paid much attention to the future, which is a little ironic since we may not have one'.. Arthur C Clarke
'It is very good advice to believe only what an artist does, rather than what he says about his work.'.. David Hockney
'Poets don't have an 'audience'. They're talking to a single person all the time'.. Robert Graves
'A poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language.'.. W H Auden
'If your morals make you dreary, depend on it, they are wrong.'.. Robert Louis Stevenson
'No man can lose what he never had.'.. Izaak Walton
'Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it.'.. George Bernard Shaw
'Men of power have no time to read; yet the men who do not read are unfit for power'.. Michael Foot
'When you've seen a nude infant doing a backward somersault you know why clothing exists'.. Stephen Fry
'The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything'.. Oscar Wilde
'The difference between tax avoidance and tax evasion is the thickness of a prison wall.'.. Denis Healey
'Without frugality none can be rich, and with it very few would be poor.'.. Samuel Johnson
'I am extraordinarily patient, provided I get my own way in the end'.. Margaret Thatcher
'It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.'.. Oscar Wilde
'Art has to move you and design does not, unless it's a good design for a bus.'.. David Hockney
'I am a part of all that I have seen.'.. Alfred Lord Tennyson
'The individual is not accountable to society for his actions in so far as these concern the interests of no person but himself.'.. John Stuart Mill
'Every exit is an entry somewhere else.'.. Sir Tom Stoppard