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Famous British Quotes
'Advice is like snow - the softer it falls, the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper in sinks into the mind.'.. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
'Progress everywhere today does seem to come so very heavily disguised as Chaos'.. Joyce Grenfell
'Both read the Bible day and night, but thou read black where I read white'.. William Blake
'A man may devote himself to death and destruction to save a nation; but no nation will devote itself to death and destruction to save mankind.'.. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
'The dreadful truth is that when people come to see their MP they have run out of better ideas'.. Boris Johnson
'Pleasure and action make the hours seem short.'.. William Shakespeare
'Sometimes the first duty of intelligent men is the restatement of the obvious'.. George Orwell
'Nothing made by brute force lasts.'.. Robert Louis Stevenson
'Her virtue was that she said what she thought, her vice that what she thought didn't amount to much.'.. Peter Ustinov
'Friendship is certainly the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love'.. Jane Austen
'The most happy marriage I can picture or imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman'.. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
'The only exercise I take is walking behind the coffins of friends who have taken too much exercise'.. Peter O’Toole
'Art is born of humiliation.'.. W H Auden
'Not where I breathe, but where I love, I live; Not where I love, but where I am, I die'.. Robert Southey
'The land of my fathers. My fathers can have it.'.. Dylan Thomas
'Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely been detected.'.. Oscar Wilde
'I do not believe in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.'.. Thomas Carlyle
'Circumstances are beyond human control, but our conduct is in our own power.'.. Benjamin Disraeli
'The only rule I have found to have any validity in writing is not to bore yourself.'.. Sir John Mortimer
'All men would be tyrants if they could.'.. Daniel Defoe
'Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it.'.. George Bernard Shaw
'In order that people may be happy in their work, these three things are needed: They must be fit for it. They must not do too much of it. And they must have a sense of success in it.'.. John Ruskin
'But better die than live mechanically a life that is a repetition of repetitions.'.. D H Lawrence
'Sometimes when you're drunk you can see better.'.. Damien Hirst
'That we must all die, we always knew; I wish I had remembered it sooner.'.. Samuel Johnson
'He that loves to be flattered is worthy o' the flatterer.'.. William Shakespeare
'He was gifted with the sly, sharp instinct for self-preservation that passes for wisdom among the rich.'.. Evelyn Waugh
'I always wanted to be an explorer, but - it seemed I was doomed to be nothing more than a very silly person.'.. Michael Palin
'All our discontents about what we want appeared to spring from the want of thankfulness for what we have.'.. Daniel Defoe
'Anything is good if it's made of chocolate.'.. Jo Brand