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Famous British Quotes
'Better the rudest work that tells a story or records a fact, than the richest without meaning'.. John Ruskin
'Actors search for rejection. If they don't get it they reject themselves.'.. Charlie Chaplin
'I think people should be free to engage in any sexual practices they choose; they should draw the line at goats though.'.. Elton John
'There is a wisdom of the head, and a wisdom of the heart.'.. Charles Dickens
'It is a dangerous thing to have instant access to your emotions.'.. Dennis Potter
'A man of great common sense and good taste - meaning thereby a man without originality or moral courage'.. George Bernard Shaw
'Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught'.. Oscar Wilde
'Money can't buy love, but it improves your bargaining position.'.. Christopher Marlowe
'If I were to choose where I was to die it would be in the herbaceous border'.. Miriam Stoppard
'Friendship is Love without his wings'.. Lord Byron
'Freedom is the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.'.. George Orwell
'Each generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it'.. George Orwell
'I have a face like the behind of an elephant.'.. Charles Laughton
'Eating words has never given me indigestion.'.. Winston Churchill
'Men judge us by the success of our efforts. God looks at the efforts themselves.'.. Charlotte Bronte
'One sometimes finds what one is not looking for.'.. Alexander Fleming
'Television has bought murder back in to the home - where it belongs'.. Alfred Hitchcock
'I don't believe one grows older. I think that what happens early on in life is that at a certain age one stands still and stagnates.'.. T S Eliot
'The politician who never made a mistake never made a decision.'.. John Major
'Like the measles, love is most dangerous when it comes late in life.'.. Lord Byron
'Farce is tragedy played at a thousand revolutions per minute.'.. Sir John Mortimer
'Nothing in life is so exhilarating as to be shot at without result.'.. Winston Churchill
'I can take any amount of criticism as long as its unqualifed praise'.. Noel Coward
'To be blind is not miserable; not to be able to bear blindness, that is miserable'.. John Milton
'In modern business it is not the crook who is to be feared most, it is the honest man who doesn't know what he is doing'.. William Wordsworth
'All conservatism is based upon the idea that if you leave things alone you leave them as they are. But you do not. If you leave a thing alone you leave it to a torrent of change'.. GK Chesterton
'Of all the objects of hatred, a woman once loved is the most hateful.'.. Max Beerbohm
'Death is the only pure, beautiful conclusion of a great passion.'.. D H Lawrence
'He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches.'.. George Bernard Shaw
'All heiresses are beautiful.'.. John Dryden