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Famous British Quotes
'Adventure is not outside man; it is within.'.. George Eliot
'To most men experience is like the stern lights of a ship, which illuminate only the track it has passed.'.. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
'Silence is as deep as eternity, speech a shallow as time.'.. Thomas Carlyle
'Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past'.. George Orwell
'Without tact you can learn nothing.'.. Benjamin Disraeli
'Nobody ever died of laughter.'.. Max Beerbohm
'All that we are not stares back at what we are.'.. W H Auden
'The best research for playing a drunk is being a British actor for 20 years'.. Michael Caine
'Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely been detected.'.. Oscar Wilde
'The golden rule is that there are no golden rules.'.. George Bernard Shaw
'I do not believe that any man fears to be dead, but only the stroke of death'.. Sir Francis Bacon
'I hate publicity, and I have contrived to survive to be an old woman without it, except in the homey atmosphere of Agricultural Shows'.. Beatrix Potter
'I don't know many singers who actually do like the sound of their own voice'.. Roger Daltrey
'One might well say that mankind is divisible into two great classes: hosts and guests'.. Max Beerbohm
'Credulity is the man's weakness, but the child's strength.'.. Charles Lamb
'You know, somebody actually complimented me on my driving today. They left a little note on the windscreen, it said 'Parking Fine.''.. Tommy Cooper
'What makes life dreary is the want of a motive.'.. George Eliot
'The highest possible stage in moral culture is when we recognize that we ought to control our thoughts.'.. Charles Darwin
'It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend.'.. John Dryden
'Ability is sexless'.. Christabel Pankhurst
'I like the ephemeral thing about theatre, every performance is like a ghost - it's there and then it's gone'.. Maggie Smith
'No advance in wealth, no softening of manners, no reform or revolution has ever brought human equality a millimeter nearer'.. George Orwell
'Although prepared for martyrdom, I preferred that it be postponed.'.. Winston Churchill
'I am half British and half American. My passport has an eagle with a tea bag in its mouth'.. Bob Hope
'General principles... are to the facts as the root and sap of a tree are to its leaves'.. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
'Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.'.. T S Eliot
'People who can't be witty exert themselves to be devout and affectionate.'.. George Eliot
'If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.'.. Virginia Woolf
'I used to think anyone doing anything weird was weird. Now I know that it is the people that call others weird that are weird'.. Paul McCartney
'The essence of being human is that one does not seek perfection'.. George Orwell