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Famous British Quotes
'Poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese'.. GK Chesterton
'Pity those who nature abuses; never those who abuse nature.'.. Richard Sheridan
'We give advice by the bucket, but take it by the grain.'.. Sir Tom Stoppard
'Oh, the tiger will love you. There is no sincerer love than the love of food.'.. George Bernard Shaw
'Everyone seems to fear dying alone. I have never understood this - who wants to die and be polite at the same time'.. Quentin Crisp
'A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty'.. Winston Churchill
'As people are walking all the time, in the same spot, a path appears.'.. John Locke
'Summer has set in with its usual severity'.. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
'Theres only one thing worse than an Estate Agent but that can be safely lanced, drained and surgically dressed.'.. Stephen Fry
'God gave us memory so that we might have roses in December.'.. J M Barrie
'Like all great travellers, I have seen more than I remember, and remember more than I have seen.'.. Benjamin Disraeli
'When childhood dies, its corpses are called adults.'.. Brian Aldiss
'Modesty seldom resides in a breast that is not enriched with nobler virtues.'.. Oliver Goldsmith
'Never read print, it spoils one's eye for the ball.'.. W G Grace
'Regrets are the natural property of grey hairs.'.. Charles Dickens
'A play should give you something to think about. When I see a play and understand it the first time, then I know it can't be much good.'.. T S Eliot
'Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.'.. T S Eliot
'Fame often makes a writer vain, but seldom makes him proud.'.. W H Auden
'When I am dead, I hope it may be said: His sins were scarlet, but his books were read'.. Hilaire Belloc
'That we must all die, we always knew; I wish I had remembered it sooner.'.. Samuel Johnson
'The first condition of progress is the removal of censorship.'.. George Bernard Shaw
'The greatest good you can do for another is not just to share your riches but to reveal to him his own.'.. Benjamin Disraeli
'To an ordinary human being, love means nothing if it does not mean loving some people more than others'.. George Orwell
'The dictum that truth always triumphs over persecution is one of the pleasant falsehoods which men repeat after one another till they pass into commonplaces, but which all experience refutes.'.. John Stuart Mill
'I can always tell when the mother in law's coming to stay; the mice throw themselves on the traps.'.. Les Dawson
'If you carry your childhood with you, you never become older.'.. Sir Tom Stoppard
'Not where I breathe, but where I love, I live; Not where I love, but where I am, I die'.. Robert Southey
'It is always the best policy to speak the truth, unless, of course, you are an exceptionally good lia'.. Jerome K Jerome
'One of the greatest problems of our time is that many are schooled but few are educated'.. Thomas More
'Life contains but two tragedies. One is not to get your heart's desire; the other is to get it.'.. George Bernard Shaw