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Famous British Quotes
'Sooner or later everyone sits down to a banquet of consequences.'.. Robert Louis Stevenson
'To wait idly is the worst of conditions.'.. Robert Falcon Scott
'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
'People say you should read your criticism because it will make you a better person but it doesn't. It just makes you a sad bitter old showbiz nightmare'.. Jo Brand
'Speed has never killed anyone, suddenly becoming stationary… that’s what gets you'.. Jeremy Clarkson
'I am humble enough to know I have made mistakes but politically astute enough to know that I have forgotten what they are'.. Michael Heseltine
'To know all is not to forgive all. It is to despise everybody'.. Quentin Crisp
'A new philosophy generally means in practice the praise of some old vice'.. GK Chesterton
'I am a lover of truth, a worshipper of freedom, a celebrant at the altar of language and purity and tolerance.'.. Stephen Fry
'It is not true that drink changes a man's character. It may reveal it more clearly.'.. John Osborne
'He who has health, has hope; and he who has hope, has everything.'.. Thomas Carlyle
'A man of great common sense and good taste - meaning thereby a man without originality or moral courage'.. George Bernard Shaw
'You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.'.. C S Lewis
'I've only slept with men I've been married to. How many women can make that claim?'.. Elizabeth Taylor
'My reputation grows with every failure.'.. George Bernard Shaw
'Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.'.. Edmund Burke
'Any relic of the dead is precious, if they were valued living.'.. Emily Bronte
'Like most of those who study history, he (Napoleon III) learned from the mistakes of the past how to make new ones.'.. A J P Taylor
'I desire no future that will break the ties with the past.'.. George Eliot
'Deer hunting would be a fine sport if only the deer had guns'.. W S Gilbert
'A solitary laugh is often a laugh of superiority.'.. Graham Greene
'Pictures deface walls more often than they decorate them.'.. William Wordsworth
'Great discoveries and improvements invariably involve the cooperation of many minds'.. Alexander Graham Bell
'Papa, potatoes, poultry, prunes and prism, are all very good words for the lips.'.. Charles Dickens
'If you carry your childhood with you, you never become older.'.. Sir Tom Stoppard
'I love a scary movie. It makes your toes curl and it's not you going through it.'.. Sir Anthony Hopkins
'It is in men as in soils where sometimes there is a vein of gold which the owner knows not'.. Jonathan Swift
'I have never had problems with drugs. I have had problems with the police....'.. Keith Richards
'I never knew a man come to greatness or eminence who lay abed late in the morning.'.. Jonathan Swift
'A laugh is worth a hundred groans in any market.'.. Charles Lamb