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Famous British Quotes
'Exhilaration is that feeling you get just after a great idea hits you, and just before you realize what`s wrong with it.'.. Rex Harrison
'The fact of the matter is that most actors are shy people.'.. Roger Moore
'There is only one class in the community that thinks more about money than the rich, and that is the poor'.. Oscar Wilde
'Breed is stronger than pasture.'.. George Eliot
'The longer you look at an object, the more abstract it becomes, and, ironically, the more real.'.. Lucien Freud
'You cannot teach old dogs new tricks.'.. Joseph Chamberlain
'Art is born of humiliation.'.. W H Auden
'Public opinion polls are rather like children in a garden, digging things up all the time to see how they're growing.'.. J B Priestley
'Don't clap too hard - it's a very old building.'.. John Osborne
'To get a job where the only thing you have to do in your career is to make people laugh-well, it's the best job in the world'.. Ronnie Barker
'Let us reform our schools, and we shall find little reform needed in our prisons'.. John Ruskin
'Paradise Lost is a book that, once put down, is very hard to pick up again.'.. Samuel Johnson
'The hardest part of sailing round the world? Stepping on dry land'.. Ellen MacArthur
'Above our life we love a steadfast friend.'.. Christopher Marlowe
'Sooner or later everyone sits down to a banquet of consequences.'.. Robert Louis Stevenson
'Necessity has no law.'.. Oliver Cromwell
'A family with the wrong members in control; that, perhaps, is as near as one can come to describing England in a phrase.'.. George Orwell
'Man is nature's sole mistake.'.. W S Gilbert
'When you choose your friends, don't be short-changed by choosing personality over character.'.. Somerset Maugham
'When hospitality becomes an art it loses its very soul.'.. Max Beerbohm
'Invention is the talent of youth, as judgment is of age.'.. Jonathan Swift
'If you don't believe in God, all you have to believe in is decency.'.. Harold Macmillan
'Presteigne - Neither in England nor Wales, simply in Radnorshire'.. George Borrow
'I think that making love is the best form of exercise.'.. Cary Grant
'I don’t understand bus lanes. Why do poor people have to get to places quicker than I do?'.. Jeremy Clarkson
'A loving heart is the beginning of all knowledge.'.. Thomas Carlyle
'The first condition of understanding a foreign country is to smell it.'.. Rudyard Kipling
'The only reason I made a commercial for American Express was to pay for my American Express bill'.. Peter Ustinov
'The creative habit is like a drug. The particular obsession changes, but the excitement, the thrill of your creation lasts'.. Henry Moore
'A lover without indiscretion is no lover at all.'.. Thomas Hardy