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Famous British Quotes
'I have seen great intolerance shown in support of tolerance.'.. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
'It is the duty of Her Majesty's government neither to flap nor to falter'.. Harold Macmillan
'Truth emerges more readily from error than from confusion.'.. Sir Francis Bacon
'If you don't believe in God, all you have to believe in is decency.'.. Harold Macmillan
'Taste is the only morality. Tell me what you like and I'll tell you what you are'.. John Ruskin
'I dont speak French, I dont speak English, I am from Yorkshire'.. Geoffrey Boycott
'No legacy is so rich as honesty.'.. William Shakespeare
'A remarkable thing about Shakespeare is that he is really very good in spite of all the people who say he is very good'.. Robert Graves
'I have taken more out of alcohol than alcohol has taken out of me.'.. Winston Churchill
'Difficulties are just things to overcome'.. Ernest Shackleton
'Three minutes thought would suffice to sort this out but thought is irksome and three minutes is a long time'.. A E Housman
'There might be 1 finger on the button, but there will be 15 fingers on the safety catch'.. Harold Macmillan
'I did not fully understand the dread term 'terminal illness' until I saw Heathrow for myself.'.. Dennis Potter
'Spoon feeding in the long run teaches us nothing but the shape of the spoon.'.. E M Forster
'To succeed with the opposite sex, tell her you're impotent. She can't wait to disprove it.'.. Cary Grant
'From a drop of water a logician could infer the possibility of an Atlantic or a Niagara without having seen or heard of one or the other.'.. Arthur Conan Doyle
'I will show you fear in a handful of dust.'.. T S Eliot
'Though lovers be lost love shall not.'.. Dylan Thomas
'The truth that is suppressed by friends is the readiest weapon of the enemy.'.. Robert Louis Stevenson
'They say eyes clear with age.'.. Philip Larkin
'If you fell down yesterday, stand up today.'.. H G Wells
'The more highly public life is organized the lower does its morality sink'.. E M Forster
'Any subject can be made interesting, and therefore any subject can be made boring'.. Hilaire Belloc
'The greatness of a man's power is the measure of his surrender.'.. William Booth
'Man tends to increase at a greater rate than his means of subsistence.'.. Charles Darwin
'A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.'.. Winston Churchill
'One is certain of nothing but the truth of one's own emotions.'.. E M Forster
'Originality is a thing we constantly clamour for, and constantly quarrel with.'.. Thomas Carlyle
'Life’s never a postcard of life, is it? It never feels like how you’d want it to look'.. Russell Brand
'Nothing builds self-esteem and self-confidence like accomplishment'.. Thomas Carlyle