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Famous British Quotes
'Life is a progress from want to want, not from enjoyment to enjoyment.'.. Samuel Johnson
'The only rule I have found to have any validity in writing is not to bore yourself.'.. Sir John Mortimer
'Even as a junkie I stayed true [to vegetarianism] - 'I shall have heroin, but I shan't have a hamburger.' What a sexy little paradox'.. Russell Brand
'Dictators free themselves, but they enslave the people.'.. Charlie Chaplin
'To an ordinary human being, love means nothing if it does not mean loving some people more than others'.. George Orwell
'The price of greatness is responsibility.'.. Winston Churchill
'A poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language.'.. W H Auden
'Civilization is the making of civil persons.'.. John Ruskin
'We are not interested in the possibilities of defeat. They do not exist'.. Queen Victoria
'Better not be at all than not be noble.'.. Alfred Lord Tennyson
'She said, 'I'm your biggest fan,' and I said, 'Who are you?' She said, 'Paris Hilton''.. Ricky Gervais
'Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.'.. H G Wells
'A fishing rod is a stick with a hook at one end and a fool at the other'.. Samuel Johnson
'Nothing wilts faster than laurels that have been rested upon.'.. Percy Bysshe Shelley
'My face looks like a wedding-cake left out in the rain.'.. W H Auden
'No violent extreme endures.'.. Thomas Carlyle
'I tell my children to avoid theatre and go into cinema and TV.'.. Peter O’Toole
'Public opinion polls are rather like children in a garden, digging things up all the time to see how they're growing.'.. J B Priestley
'I don't ever blink, honestly.'.. Ridley Scott
'I love criticism just so long as it's unqualified praise.'.. Noel Coward
'The saddest thing I can imagine is to get used to luxury.'.. Charlie Chaplin
'Asparagus inspires gentle thoughts.'.. Charles Lamb
'If there was nothing wrong in the world there wouldn't be anything for us to do.'.. George Bernard Shaw
'Why are women... so much more interesting to men than men are to women?'.. Virginia Woolf
'A healthy attitude is contagious but don't wait to catch it from others. Be a carrier'.. Sir Tom Stoppard
'God could not be everywhere, and therefore he made mothers.'.. Rudyard Kipling
'To make us love our country, our country ought to be lovely.'.. Edmund Burke
'Successful investing is anticipating the anticipations of others.'.. John Maynard Keynes
'I desire no future that will break the ties with the past.'.. George Eliot
'Other nations use 'force'; we Britons alone use 'Might'.'.. Evelyn Waugh