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Famous British Quotes
'The best car safety device is a rear-view mirror with a cop in it'.. Dudley Moore
'It's no use crying over spilt summits.'.. Harold Macmillan
'To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.'.. Oscar Wilde
'All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.'.. Winston Churchill
'A sure cure for seasickness is to sit under a tree.'.. Spike Milligan
'Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point.'.. C S Lewis
'Never forget that only dead fish swim with the stream.'.. Malcolm Muggeridge
'The block of granite which was an obstacle in the pathway of the weak, became a stepping-stone in the pathway of the strong.'.. Thomas Carlyle
'When it comes to life the critical thing is whether you take things for granted or take them with gratitude'.. GK Chesterton
'Television has bought murder back in to the home - where it belongs'.. Alfred Hitchcock
'Art is the most passionate orgy within man's grasp.'.. John Donne
'You will be better advised to watch what we do instead of what we say.'.. A A Milne
'One person with a belief is equal to ninety-nine who have only interests'.. John Stuart Mill
'Never the time and the place and the loved one all together!'.. Robert Browning
'The first condition of progress is the removal of censorship.'.. George Bernard Shaw
'A Royal Commission is a broody hen sitting on a china egg.'.. Michael Foot
'Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it.'.. George Bernard Shaw
'War is a quarrel between two thieves too cowardly to fight their own battle.'.. Thomas Carlyle
'Loyalty is a fine quality, but in excess it fills political graveyards.'.. Neil Kinnock
'There are only two styles of portrait painting; the serious and the smirk.'.. Charles Dickens
'The greatest good you can do for another is not just to share your riches but to reveal to him his own.'.. Benjamin Disraeli
'The trouble with orgies is that you have to spend so much time holding your stomach in'.. Sir John Mortimer
'A loving heart is the beginning of all knowledge.'.. Thomas Carlyle
'At night, when the curtains are drawn and the fire flickers, my books attain a collective dignity.'.. E M Forster
'The difference between a bad artist and a good one is: the bad artist seems to copy a great deal; the good one really does'.. William Blake
'The purpose of getting power is to be able to give it away'.. Aneurin Bevan
'Rigid, the skeleton of habit alone upholds the human frame.'.. Virginia Woolf
'There are two freedoms - the false, where a man is free to do what he likes; the true, where he is free to do what he ought.'.. Charles Kingsley
'I used to go missing a lot...Miss Canada, Miss United Kingdom, Miss World.'.. George Best
'The one haunting and exasperatingly lovable city in Scotland'.. Lewis Gibbon