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Famous British Quotes
'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
'Kinross House, the beautiful and regular piece of architecture in all of Scotland'.. Daniel Defoe
'Alas! they had been friends in youth; but whispering tongues can poison truth.'.. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
'Life is easy to chronicle, but bewildering to practice.'.. E M Forster
'Credulity is the man's weakness, but the child's strength.'.. Charles Lamb
'One of the things being in politics has taught me is that men are not a reasoned or reasonable sex'.. Margaret Thatcher
'My body has certainly wandered a good deal, but I have an uneasy suspicion that my mind has not wandered enough.'.. Noel Coward
'There is not a more repulsive spectacle than on old man who will not forsake the world, which has already forsaken him.'.. T S Eliot
'He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches.'.. George Bernard Shaw
'A good book is the precious lifeblood of a master spirit.'.. John Milton
'It is obvious that we can no more explain a passion to a person who has never experienced it than we can explain light to the blind.'.. T S Eliot
'He was a bold man that first eat on oyster.'.. Jonathan Swift
'I always knew that if all else failed I could become an actor. And all else failed'.. David Niven
'I think we have all experienced passion that is not in any sense reasonable.'.. Stephen Fry
'Farce is tragedy played at a thousand revolutions per minute.'.. Sir John Mortimer
'Summer has set in with its usual severity'.. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
'Curiosity is one of the most permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous intellect'.. Samuel Johnson
'When everyone is somebody, then no one's anybody.'.. W S Gilbert
'Fathers should be neither seen nor heard. That is the only proper basis for family life'.. Oscar Wilde
'Our true nationality is mankind.'.. H G Wells
'Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children.'.. George Bernard Shaw
'Life turned out much better than I thought. I knew after a little while that I could act.'.. Peter O’Toole
'Contraceptives should be used on every conceivable occasion.'.. Spike Milligan
'If you carry your childhood with you, you never become older.'.. Sir Tom Stoppard
'It is no wonder that people are so horrible when they start their life as children.'.. Sir Kingsley Amis
'Euphemisms are unpleasant truths wearing diplomatic cologne'.. Quentin Crisp
'There are only two styles of portrait painting; the serious and the smirk.'.. Charles Dickens
'Nothing wilts faster than laurels that have been rested upon.'.. Percy Bysshe Shelley
'Certainly nothing is unnatural that is not physically impossible.'.. Richard Sheridan
'If there was nothing wrong in the world there wouldn't be anything for us to do.'.. George Bernard Shaw