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Quotes by British Authors

"The Queen is the only person who can put on a tiara with one hand, while walking down stairs."

"The Queen is the only person who can put on a tiara with one hand, while walking down stairs."

Princess Margaret, British Royalty

Queen, Stairs, Walking

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"I'm not sure there are enough coaches in the system that can take young talent and consistently get them into the top five in the world."

"I'm not sure there are enough coaches in the system that can take young talent and consistently get them into the top five in the world."

Sebastian Coe, British Politician

Talent, Coaches, World

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"There is nothing that people bear more impatiently, or forgive less, than contempt: and an injury is much sooner forgotten than an insult."

"There is nothing that people bear more impatiently, or forgive less, than contempt: and an injury is much sooner forgotten than an insult."

Lord Chesterfield, British Statesman

People, Injury, Insult, Nothing

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"Poetry and prayer are very similar."

"Poetry and prayer are very similar."

Carol Ann Duffy, British Poet

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"The man who can drive himself further once the effort gets painful is the man who will win."

"The man who can drive himself further once the effort gets painful is the man who will win."

Roger Bannister, British Athlete

Effort, Man, Will

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"May is a very early time in the year and the weather is usually bad. You cannot run a fast mile race if there is a strong wind, because it makes your running uneven."

"May is a very early time in the year and the weather is usually bad. You cannot run a fast mile race if there is a strong wind, because it makes your running uneven."

Roger Bannister, British Athlete

Time, May, Race, Running

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"At a certain age it just became apparent to me that this was probably the work that I would have to do."

"At a certain age it just became apparent to me that this was probably the work that I would have to do."

Daniel Day Lewis, British Actor

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"A whole new generation is looking at the videos, and going to the video shop and buying the re-release of the complete trilogy, which you can buy at a reasonable price."

"A whole new generation is looking at the videos, and going to the video shop and buying the re-release of the complete trilogy, which you can buy at a reasonable price."

Peter Mayhew, British Actor

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"I've read a couple of things that I was sort of close to having a nervous breakdown. But I don't think I was. I was very, very tired. It was a really difficult time."

"I've read a couple of things that I was sort of close to having a nervous breakdown. But I don't think I was. I was very, very tired. It was a really difficult time."

Kate Bush, British Musician

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"When I started making my own records, I had this idea of drowning out the singer and putting the rest in the foreground. It was the background that interested me."

"When I started making my own records, I had this idea of drowning out the singer and putting the rest in the foreground. It was the background that interested me."

Brian Eno, British Musician

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"I want to do something where I play Judi Dench's younger sister or daughter."

"I want to do something where I play Judi Dench's younger sister or daughter."

Dawn French, British Comedian

Sister, Daughter, Play, Want

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"In Washington, success is just a training course for failure."

"In Washington, success is just a training course for failure."

Simon Hoggart, British Journalist

Success, Failure, Training, Washington

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"Every time a man expects, as he says, his money to work for him, he is expecting other people to work for him."

"Every time a man expects, as he says, his money to work for him, he is expecting other people to work for him."

Dorothy L. Sayers, British Author

Money, Time, Work, People

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"I'm still a kid inside, and adventure is adventure wherever you find it."

"I'm still a kid inside, and adventure is adventure wherever you find it."

Jim Dale, British Musician

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"The Promised Land always lies on the other side of a Wilderness."

"The Promised Land always lies on the other side of a Wilderness."

Henry Ellis, British Psychologist

Land, Lies, Wilderness

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"Certainly dog driving is the most terrible work one has to face in this sort of business."

"Certainly dog driving is the most terrible work one has to face in this sort of business."

Robert Falcon Scott, British Explorer

Business, Work, Driving

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"I fancied I had some constancy of mind because I could bear my own sufferings, but found through the sufferings of others I could be weakened like a child."

"I fancied I had some constancy of mind because I could bear my own sufferings, but found through the sufferings of others I could be weakened like a child."

Sarah Fielding, British Novelist

Constancy, Mind

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"People ask me to describe myself, but it's a very personal thing. You don't feel comfortable."

"People ask me to describe myself, but it's a very personal thing. You don't feel comfortable."

Damon Hill, British Athlete

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"With a book, he was regardless of time."

"With a book, he was regardless of time."

Jane Austen, British Writer

Passion, Books, Time, Focus, Solitude

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"The one pervading evil of democracy is the tyranny of the majority, or rather of that party, not always the majority, that succeeds, by force or fraud, in carrying elections."

"The one pervading evil of democracy is the tyranny of the majority, or rather of that party, not always the majority, that succeeds, by force or fraud, in carrying elections."

Lord Acton, British Historian

Democracy, Elections, Evil, Force

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"I think we did a pretty good role, linking, being a sounding board really and a driving force, especially from the bottom up. I think that part of this is bottom up as well as top down."

"I think we did a pretty good role, linking, being a sounding board really and a driving force, especially from the bottom up. I think that part of this is bottom up as well as top down."

Richard Rogers, British Architect

Being, Driving, Force, Pretty

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"I find myself saying briefly and prosaically that it is much more important to be oneself than anything else. Do not dream of influencing other people, I would say, if I knew how to make it sound exalted. Think of things in themselves."

"I find myself saying briefly and prosaically that it is much more important to be oneself than anything else. Do not dream of influencing other people, I would say, if I knew how to make it sound exalted. Think of things in themselves."

Virginia Woolf, British Author

Identity, Self, Authenticity, Influence

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"In fact I am quite snappy and irritable, and I don't know if I'd like to make myself worse in that respect."

"In fact I am quite snappy and irritable, and I don't know if I'd like to make myself worse in that respect."

Nigella Lawson, British Journalist

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"St. Teresa of Avila described our life in this world as like a night at a second-class hotel."

"St. Teresa of Avila described our life in this world as like a night at a second-class hotel."

Malcolm Muggeridge, British Journalist

Life, Night, World

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"I'm just not very good at glamour... It doesn't come easily to me."

"I'm just not very good at glamour... It doesn't come easily to me."

Elize Du Toit, British Actress

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"Refrain at all times from such Foods as cannot be procured without violence and oppression."

"Refrain at all times from such Foods as cannot be procured without violence and oppression."

Thomas Tryon, British Celebrity

Oppression, Violence

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"Certainly, in Italy, nobody takes light for granted."

"Certainly, in Italy, nobody takes light for granted."

Barbara Steele, British Actress

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"I want to swim in both directions at once. Desire success, court failure."

"I want to swim in both directions at once. Desire success, court failure."

Alan Rickman, British Actor

Success, Failure, Court, Desire

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"I don't think I will ever get tired of wearing pink."

"I don't think I will ever get tired of wearing pink."

Emma Bunton, British Musician

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"I did tests on small stones before collecting and committing myself to the larger ones."

"I did tests on small stones before collecting and committing myself to the larger ones."

Andy Goldsworthy, British Artist

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"Two heads are better than one, not because either is infallible, but because they are unlikely to go wrong in the same direction."

"Two heads are better than one, not because either is infallible, but because they are unlikely to go wrong in the same direction."

C. S. Lewis, British Author

Cooperation, Wisdom, Collaboration, Trust, Logic

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"I see myself on the cover of a magazine and I don't think that it looks like me at all. My first-ever photo shoot was for the cover of a lads' magazine."

"I see myself on the cover of a magazine and I don't think that it looks like me at all. My first-ever photo shoot was for the cover of a lads' magazine."

Elize Du Toit, British Actress

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"In this case it appealed to me partly because it felt close to me in some ways. This is about a confused, bewildered middle class Englishman adrift in smalltown America and that has definitely been me."

"In this case it appealed to me partly because it felt close to me in some ways. This is about a confused, bewildered middle class Englishman adrift in smalltown America and that has definitely been me."

Colin Firth, British Actor

America, Class, Middle class

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"My face has always been my fortune anyway, not my body."

"My face has always been my fortune anyway, not my body."

Claire Bloom, British Actress

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"A masculine education cannot spare from professional study and the necessary acquisition of languages, the time and attention which I have bestowed on the compositions of my countrymen."

"A masculine education cannot spare from professional study and the necessary acquisition of languages, the time and attention which I have bestowed on the compositions of my countrymen."

Anne Seward, British Poet

Education, Time, Attention, Study

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"Unmarried couples should get married - that's an excellent tax avoidance measure, if a bit drastic."

"Unmarried couples should get married - that's an excellent tax avoidance measure, if a bit drastic."

John Whiting, British Playwright

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"The more tranquil a man becomes, the greater is his success, his influence, his power for good. Calmness of mind is one of the beautiful jewels of wisdom."

"The more tranquil a man becomes, the greater is his success, his influence, his power for good. Calmness of mind is one of the beautiful jewels of wisdom."

James Allen, British Author

Power, Wisdom, Success, Influence

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"There is time enough for everything, in the course of the day, if you do but one thing at once; but there is not time enough in the year, if you will do two things at a time."

"There is time enough for everything, in the course of the day, if you do but one thing at once; but there is not time enough in the year, if you will do two things at a time."

Philip Stanhope, British Statesman

Time, Day, Will

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"She's happy to be home but being home means that it's an end to her adventure and escape."

"She's happy to be home but being home means that it's an end to her adventure and escape."

S. A. Tawks, British Author

Transition, Adventure, Home, Escape, Change

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"Why, then, should we ever sink overwhelmed with distress, when life is so soon over, and death is so certain an entrance to happiness " to glory?"

"Why, then, should we ever sink overwhelmed with distress, when life is so soon over, and death is so certain an entrance to happiness " to glory?"

Charlotte Bronte, British Novelist

Mortality, Happiness, Life, Death

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"It's an immensely competitive business, and I can tell you the older you get, the parts are fewer, and the people who are proven performers are greater."

"It's an immensely competitive business, and I can tell you the older you get, the parts are fewer, and the people who are proven performers are greater."

John Hurt, British Actor

Business, People

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"Young dancers are training at a very vulnerable time in their lives, through adolescence, and while they are trying to work out who they are as people, never mind as a dancer. So train the whole person, not just the dancer."

"Young dancers are training at a very vulnerable time in their lives, through adolescence, and while they are trying to work out who they are as people, never mind as a dancer. So train the whole person, not just the dancer."

Deborah Bull, British Dancer

Time, Work, People, Adolescence

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"Police arrested two kids yesterday, one was drinking battery acid, the other was eating fireworks. They charged one and let the other one off."

"Police arrested two kids yesterday, one was drinking battery acid, the other was eating fireworks. They charged one and let the other one off."

Tommy Cooper, British Comedian

Drink, Drinking, Eating, Kids, Police

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"People are very interested in politics, they just don't like it labelled politics."

"People are very interested in politics, they just don't like it labelled politics."

Douglas Hurd, British Politician

Politics, People

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"I certainly did feel inferior. Because of class. Because of strength. Because of height. I guess if I'd been able to hit somebody in the nose, I wouldn't have been a comic."

"I certainly did feel inferior. Because of class. Because of strength. Because of height. I guess if I'd been able to hit somebody in the nose, I wouldn't have been a comic."

Dudley Moore, British Celebrity

Strength, Class

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"Sweet spring, full of sweet days and roses, a box where sweets compacted lie."

"Sweet spring, full of sweet days and roses, a box where sweets compacted lie."

George Herbert, British Poet

Lie, Roses, Spring

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"Orito banishes all thoughts of Jacob de Zoet, and recalls Jacob de Zoet."

"Orito banishes all thoughts of Jacob de Zoet, and recalls Jacob de Zoet."

David Mitchell, British Novelist

Memory, Recall, Thought, Reflection

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"Every layer of complexity creates greater distance from life's simple truths."

"Every layer of complexity creates greater distance from life's simple truths."

Fennel Hudson, British Author

Simplicity, Complexity, Truth, Life, Distance

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"There is no index of character so sure as the voice."

"There is no index of character so sure as the voice."

Benjamin Disraeli, British Statesman

Identity, Character, Voice

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"'Tis human actions paint the chart of time."

"'Tis human actions paint the chart of time."

James Montgomery, British Poet

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