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Famous British Quotes
'Mountains are the beginning and the end of all natural scenery.'.. John Ruskin
'I like to give my inhibitions a bath now and then.'.. Oliver Reed
'Come forth into the light of things, let nature be your teacher.'.. William Wordsworth
'There can be no liberty unless there is economic liberty.'.. Margaret Thatcher
'An idea, like a ghost, must be spoken to a little before it will explain itself.'.. Charles Dickens
'No benevolent man ever lost altogether the fruits of his benevolence.'.. Adam Smith
'A cricketer's life is a life of splendid freedom, healthy effort, endless variety, and delightful good fellowship'.. W G Grace
'The aura given out by a person or object is as much a part of them as their flesh.'.. Lucien Freud
'All a poet can do today is warn.'.. Wilfred Owen
'Great men are seldom over-scrupulous in the arrangement of their attire.'.. Charles Dickens
'Let not England forget her precedence of teaching nations how to live'.. John Milton
'One should always play fairly when one has the winning cards.'.. Oscar Wilde
'All that a husband or wife really wants is to be pitied a little, praised a little, and appreciated a little'.. Oliver Goldsmith
'Conviction is worthless unless it is converted into conduct.'.. Thomas Carlyle
'A little sincerity is a dangerous thing, and a great deal of it is absolutely fatal'.. Oscar Wilde
'I am in that temper that if I were under water I would scarcely kick to come to the top'.. John Keats
'One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making new discoveries'.. A A Milne
'I sometimes think that the price of liberty is not so much eternal vigilance as eternal dirt'.. George Orwell
'There is frequently more to be learned from the unexpected questions of a child than the discourses of men'.. John Locke
'The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit.'.. Somerset Maugham
'A dream you dream alone is only a dream. A dream you dream together is reality'.. John Lennon
'Politics is the art of making the inevitable seem planned'.. Quentin Crisp
'Consequences are unpitying.'.. George Eliot
'You write with ease to show your breeding, but easy writing's curst hard reading.'.. Richard Sheridan
'A man may devote himself to death and destruction to save a nation; but no nation will devote itself to death and destruction to save mankind.'.. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
'It is necessary to relax your muscles when you can. Relaxing your brain is fatal.'.. Stirling Moss
'Auld Ayr,whom ne'er a town surpasses for honest men and bonnie lasses'.. Robert Burns
'I became a great runner because if you are a kid in Leeds called Sebastian you have to be'.. Sebastian Coe
'I do not believe that any man fears to be dead, but only the stroke of death'.. Sir Francis Bacon
'We grow small trying to be great.'.. David Hockney