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Famous British Quotes
'I don't know many singers who actually do like the sound of their own voice'.. Roger Daltrey
'O, what a tangled web we weave when first we practise to deceive!'.. Walter Scott
'Cities, like cats, will reveal themselves at night.'.. Rupert Brooke
'I am half British and half American. My passport has an eagle with a tea bag in its mouth'.. Bob Hope
'Every man's memory is his private literature.'.. Aldous Huxley
'The worlds second worst crime is boredom. The first is being a bore'.. Cecil Beaton
'He was a dreamer, a thinker, a speculative philosopher... or, as his wife would have it, an idiot.'.. Douglas Adams
'What is written without effort is in general read without pleasure.'.. Samuel Johnson
'Unintelligent people always look for a scapegoat.'.. Ernest Bevin
'I never saw an ugly thing in my life: for let the form of an object be what it may, - light, shade, and perspective will always make it beautiful'.. John Constable
'The thing about imagination is that by the very act of putting it down, there must be some truth in one's own imagination.'.. Dennis Potter
'Happy the people whose annals are vacant.'.. Thomas Carlyle
'Men love in haste, but they detest at leisure.'.. Lord Byron
'Discretion is the perfection of reason, and a guide to us in all the duties of life.'.. Walter Scott
'A toddling little girl is a centre of common feeling which makes the most dissimilar people understand each other.'.. George Eliot
'Fear is the mother of foresight.'.. Thomas Hardy
'The truth that is suppressed by friends is the readiest weapon of the enemy.'.. Robert Louis Stevenson
'Nothing is so contagious as enthusiasm.'.. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
'You and I come by road or rail, but economists travel on infrastructure'.. Margaret Thatcher
'I think in terms of the day's resolutions, not the years'.'.. Henry Moore
'The love of a mother is the veil of a softer light between the heart and the heavenly Father'.. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
'The overall impression from the British is that they love France but would prefer it if the French didn't live there'.. Sir John Mortimer
'In the end, everything is a gag.'.. Charlie Chaplin
'I never saw a wild thing sorry for itself. A small bird will drop frozen dead from a bough without ever having felt sorry for itself.'.. D H Lawrence
'He that gives good advice, builds with one hand; he that gives good counsel and example, builds with both'.. Sir Francis Bacon
'A slavish bondage to parents cramps every faculty of the mind.'.. Mary Shelley
'Comedy is simply a funny way of being serious.'.. Peter Ustinov
'Auld Ayr,whom ne'er a town surpasses for honest men and bonnie lasses'.. Robert Burns
'The nation that secures control of the air will ultimately control the world.'.. Alexander Graham Bell
'No amount of ability is of the slightest avail without honor.'.. Thomas Carlyle