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Famous British Quotes
'A real book is not one that we read, but one that reads us.'.. W H Auden
'Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing.'.. Oscar Wilde
'Nothing that is worth knowing can be taught'.. Oscar Wilde
'A man lives by believing something: not by debating and arguing about many things.'.. Thomas Carlyle
'The more highly public life is organized the lower does its morality sink'.. E M Forster
'If you have men who will only come if they know there is a good road, I don't want them. I want men who will come if there is no road at all.'.. David Livingstone
'There is only one class in the community that thinks more about money than the rich, and that is the poor'.. Oscar Wilde
''Tis the last rose of summer Left blooming alone; All her lovely companions Are faded and gone.'.. Thomas More
'I believe the first test of a truly great man is in his humility.'.. John Ruskin
'With two small children, I haven't had a wash since 2001 so the chance to go shopping is way down the list. It is something I do intend to get'.. Jo Brand
'The human species, according to the best theory I can form of it, is composed of two distinct races, the men who borrow and the men who lend.'.. Charles Lamb
'Greatness and goodness are not means, but ends.'.. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
'Men marry because they are tired; women, because they are curious; both are disappointed'.. Oscar Wilde
'As people are walking all the time, in the same spot, a path appears.'.. John Locke
'The House of Lords is like a glass of champagne that has stood for five days'.. Clement Attlee
'Do not tell secrets to those whose faith and silence you have not already tested.'.. Elizabeth I
'People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf'.. George Orwell
'Not what I have, but what I do is my kingdom.'.. Thomas Carlyle
'There is not in nature, a thing that makes man so deformed, so beastly, as doth intemperate anger.'.. Alan Bleasdale
'Laws are like cobwebs, which may catch small flies, but let wasps and hornets break through'.. Jonathan Swift
'If you had a face like mine, you'd punch me right on the nose, and I'm just the fella to do it.'.. Stan Laurel
'Auld Ayr,whom ne'er a town surpasses for honest men and bonnie lasses'.. Robert Burns
'Pleasure and freedom from pain, are the only things desirable as ends.'.. John Stuart Mill
'Most sets of values would give rise to universes that, although they might be very beautiful, would contain no one able to wonder at that beauty.'.. Stephen Hawking
'When you've seen a nude infant doing a backward somersault you know why clothing exists'.. Stephen Fry
'Britain is the grit in the European oyster'.. John Major
'This report, by its very length, defends itself against the risk of being read.'.. Winston Churchill
'All political power is a trust'.. Charles James Fox
'Better not be at all than not be noble.'.. Alfred Lord Tennyson
'Art has to move you and design does not, unless it's a good design for a bus.'.. David Hockney