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Famous British Quotes
'History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.'.. Winston Churchill
'The difference between tax avoidance and tax evasion is the thickness of a prison wall.'.. Denis Healey
'Any woman who understands the problems of running a home will be nearer to understanding the problems of running a country'.. Margaret Thatcher
'No one rises so high as he who knows not whither he is going.'.. Oliver Cromwell
'Criticism, that fine flower of personal expression in the garden of letters'.. Joseph Conrad
'Weak eyes are fondest of glittering objects.'.. Thomas Carlyle
'Some of my best leading men have been dogs and horses.'.. Elizabeth Taylor
'Patriotism is an instant reaction that fades away when the war starts'.. Mick Jagger
'A ruffled mind makes a restless pillow.'.. Charlotte Bronte
'For success, attitude is equally as important as ability.'.. Walter Scott
'animals have the vowel sounds; man only can utter consonants'.. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
'Fame often makes a writer vain, but seldom makes him proud.'.. W H Auden
'At the end of the Beatles, I really was done in for the first time in my life. Until then, I really was a kind of cocky sod.'.. Paul McCartney
'Proud people breed sad sorrows for themselves.'.. Emily Bronte
'Money is like manure, of very little use except it be spread.'.. Sir Francis Bacon
'Integrity is so perishable in the summer months of success.'.. Vanessa Redgrave
'Each generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it'.. George Orwell
'Until you understand a writer's ignorance, presume yourself ignorant of his understanding'.. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
'Capitalism is the astounding belief that the most wickedest of men will do the most wickedest of things for the greatest good of everyone'.. John Maynard Keynes
'Public opinion is a compound of folly, weakness, prejudice, wrong feeling, right feeling, obstinacy, and newspaper paragraphs'.. Robert Peel
'Dancing is the poetry of the foot.'.. John Dryden
'People say it gets better but it doesn't. It just gets different, that's all.'.. Maggie Smith
'Understand that sexuality is as wide as the sea. Understand that your morality is not law'.. Derek Jarman
'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
'My boat can sleep 6 people that know each other well or 1 prude'.. Peter Ustinov
'Oh, the tiger will love you. There is no sincerer love than the love of food.'.. George Bernard Shaw
'I wouldnt say I was the best manager in the business but I was in the top 1'.. Brian Clough
'Nothing can be beautiful which is not true.'.. John Ruskin
'Good sense about trivialities is better than nonsense about things that matter'.. Max Beerbohm
'We have always found the Irish a bit odd. They refuse to be English.'.. Winston Churchill