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Famous British Quotes
'Keep violence in the mind where it belongs.'.. Brian Aldiss
'Do not allow to slip away from you freedoms the people who came before you won with such hard knocks.'.. D H Lawrence
'Many a man is praised for his reserve and so-called shyness when he is simply too proud to risk making a fool of himself.'.. J B Priestley
'Nothing is too wonderful to be true if it be consistent with the laws of nature'.. Michael Faraday
'An actor is something less than a man, while an actress is something more than a woman.'.. Richard Burton
'Better three hours too soon than a minute too late.'.. William Shakespeare
'Experience teaches only the teachable.'.. Aldous Huxley
'The performances you have in your head are always much better than the performances on stage'.. Maggie Smith
'Our doubts are traitors and make us lose the good we oft might win by fearing to attempt.'.. William Shakespeare
'I have never acted on a press release or gone out to dinner with a PR. I think PR is a ridiculous job. They are the headlice of civilisation'.. A A Gill
'Where there is no property there is no injustice.'.. John Locke
'A man who trusts nobody is apt to be the kind of man nobody trusts'.. Harold Macmillan
'I think it is the responsibility of a citizen of any country to say what he thinks.'.. Harold Pinter
'If history were taught in the form of stories, it would never be forgotten'.. Rudyard Kipling
'Several excuses are always less convincing than one.'.. Aldous Huxley
'If Hitler invaded hell I would make at least a favorable reference to the devil in the House of Commons.'.. Winston Churchill
'The creative habit is like a drug. The particular obsession changes, but the excitement, the thrill of your creation lasts'.. Henry Moore
'Absences are a good influence in love and keep it bright and delicate.'.. Robert Louis Stevenson
'A healthy attitude is contagious but don't wait to catch it from others. Be a carrier'.. Sir Tom Stoppard
'Golf is a day spent in a round of strenuous idleness.'.. William Wordsworth
'If someone's dumb enough to offer me a million dollars to make a picture, I'm certainly not dumb enough to turn it down.'.. Elizabeth Taylor
'Time you enjoy wasting, was not wasted.'.. John Lennon
'A poem is true if it hangs together. Information points to something else. A poem points to nothing but itself'.. E M Forster
'Autumn wins you best by this its mute appeal to sympathy for its decay.'.. Robert Browning
'Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing.'.. Oscar Wilde
'For my part, I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move.'.. Robert Louis Stevenson
'Every absurdity has a champion to defend it.'.. Oliver Goldsmith
'There is a condition worse than blindness, and that is, seeing something that isn't there.'.. Thomas Hardy
'Whichever party is in office, the Treasury is in power.'.. Harold Wilson
'I am prepared for the worst, but hope for the best.'.. Benjamin Disraeli