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Famous British Quotes
'A young man who isn't a socialist hasn't got a heart; an old man who is a socialist hasn't got a head.'.. David Lloyd George
'I'm not afraid of dying I just don't want to be there when it happens.'.. Spike Milligan
'In wartime, truth is so precious that she should always be attended by a bodyguard of lies.'.. Winston Churchill
'The finest landscape is improved by a good Pub in the foreground'.. Samuel Johnson
'A neurosis is a secret that you don't know you are keeping.'.. Kenneth Tynan
'A mother is a mother still, The holiest thing alive.'.. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
'Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man'.. Sir Francis Bacon
'All men would be tyrants if they could.'.. Daniel Defoe
'Nothing, like something, happens anywhere.'.. Philip Larkin
'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
'No man ever became great or good except through many and great mistakes.'.. W E Gladstone
'Life has a practice of living you, if you don't live it.'.. Philip Larkin
'A laugh is worth a hundred groans in any market.'.. Charles Lamb
'To myself I am only a child playing on the beach, while vast oceans of truth lie undiscovered before me'.. Isaac Newton
'It's easier to replace a dead man than a good picture.'.. George Bernard Shaw
'Everything's complicated, even those things that seem flat in their bleakness or sadness'.. Nick Hornby
'It is in men as in soils where sometimes there is a vein of gold which the owner knows not'.. Jonathan Swift
'Loss and possession, death and life are one, There falls no shadow where there shines no sun.'.. Hilaire Belloc
'I have terrible hearing trouble. I have unwittingly helped to invent and refine a type of music that makes its principal proponents deaf.'.. Pete Townshend
'The sort of poetry I seek resides in objects man can't touch.'.. E M Forster
'By nature, men love newfangledness.'.. Geoffrey Chaucer
'Bachelors have consciences, married men have wives.'.. Samuel Johnson
'Criticism, that fine flower of personal expression in the garden of letters'.. Joseph Conrad
'I didn't come into politics to change the Labour Party. I came into politics to change the country'.. Tony Blair
'If the best man's faults were written on his forehead, he would draw his hat over his eyes.'.. Thomas Gray
'No battle is worth fighting except the last one.'.. Enoch Powell
'It is the duty of Her Majesty's government neither to flap nor to falter'.. Harold Macmillan
'Somebody said to me, 'But the Beatles were anti-materialistic.' That's a huge myth. John and I literally used to sit down and say, 'Now, let's write a swimming pool.''.. Paul McCartney
'Being pregnant is an occupational hazard of being a wife.'.. Queen Victoria
'I am half British and half American. My passport has an eagle with a tea bag in its mouth'.. Bob Hope