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Famous British Quotes
'He that undervalues himself will undervalue others, and he that undervalues others will oppress them'.. Samuel Johnson
'The performances you have in your head are always much better than the performances on stage'.. Maggie Smith
'An actor is something less than a man, while an actress is something more than a woman.'.. Richard Burton
'I have never acted on a press release or gone out to dinner with a PR. I think PR is a ridiculous job. They are the headlice of civilisation'.. A A Gill
'A tavern is a place where madness is sold by the bottle.'.. Jonathan Swift
'If you are cast in a different mould to the majority, it is no merit of yours: Nature did it.'.. Charlotte Bronte
'Great things are done when men and mountains meet.'.. William Blake
'We grow small trying to be great.'.. David Hockney
'Immortality is really desirable, I guess. In terms of images, anyway.'.. Damien Hirst
'The only rule I have found to have any validity in writing is not to bore yourself.'.. Sir John Mortimer
'I can imagine no more comfortable frame of mind than a humorous resignation'.. Somerset Maugham
'Successful investing is anticipating the anticipations of others.'.. John Maynard Keynes
'The world is a republic of mediocrities, and always was.'.. Thomas Carlyle
'Blessed is the influence of one true, loving human soul on another.'.. George Eliot
'Put three Englishmen on a desert island and within an hour they will have invented a class system'.. Alan Ayckbourn
'Consistency is the last refuge of the unimaginative.'.. Oscar Wilde
'Books like friends, should be few and well-chosen.'.. Samuel Johnson
'There is no such thing as the pursuit of happiness, but there is the discovery of joy'.. Joyce Grenfell
'Euphemisms are unpleasant truths wearing diplomatic cologne'.. Quentin Crisp
'Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.'.. Benjamin Disraeli
'Modesty seldom resides in a breast that is not enriched with nobler virtues.'.. Oliver Goldsmith
'The first condition of understanding a foreign country is to smell it.'.. Rudyard Kipling
'We should have a great fewer disputes in the world if words were taken for what they are, the signs of our ideas only, and not for things themselves.'.. John Locke
'I sometimes think that God in creating man somewhat overestimated his ability.'.. Oscar Wilde
'We've discovered that the less we do, the more money we make.'.. Eric Idle
'I've always said there's a place for the press but they haven't dug it yet.'.. Tommy Docherty
'A clear and innocent conscience fears nothing.'.. Elizabeth I
'There's no use doing a kindness if you do it a day too late.'.. Charles Kingsley
'Kinross House, the beautiful and regular piece of architecture in all of Scotland'.. Daniel Defoe
'I find it rather easy to portray a businessman. Being bland, rather cruel and incompetent comes naturally to me'.. John Cleese