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Famous British Quotes
'Experience teaches only the teachable.'.. Aldous Huxley
'Fathers should be neither seen nor heard. That is the only proper basis for family life'.. Oscar Wilde
'Before anything else, preparation is the key to success.'.. Alexander Graham Bell
'A politician is a person with whose politics you don't agree; if you agree with him he's a statesman.'.. David Lloyd George
'Little things affect little minds.'.. Benjamin Disraeli
'Things which do not require effort of some sort are seldom worth having'.. Ivor Novello
'Rock and roll doesn't necessarily mean a band. It doesn't mean a singer, and it doesn't mean a lyric, really. It's that question of trying to be immortal'.. Malcolm McLaren
'Nothing in life is so exhilarating as to be shot at without result.'.. Winston Churchill
'Power without principle is barren, but principle without power is futile'.. Tony Blair
'I am humble enough to know I have made mistakes but politically astute enough to know that I have forgotten what they are'.. Michael Heseltine
'It is the duty of Her Majesty's government neither to flap nor to falter'.. Harold Macmillan
'It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent that survives. It is the one that is the most adaptable to change.'.. Charles Darwin
'Adapt or perish, now as ever, is nature's inexorable imperative.'.. H G Wells
'A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of.'.. Jane Austen
'There's only room for one bigmouth in my organisation, and that's me.'.. Alan Sugar
'There's no such thing as old age, there is only sorrow'.. Fay Weldon
'A bachelor's life is a fine breakfast, a flat lunch, and a miserable dinner.'.. Sir Francis Bacon
'Cowards die many times before their deaths; the valiant never taste of death but once'.. William Shakespeare
'By indignities men come to dignities.'.. Sir Francis Bacon
'The trouble with children is that they are non-returnable'.. Quentin Crisp
'I have the body of an eighteen year old. I keep it in the fridge.'.. Spike Milligan
'Rolf Harris is a difficult man to hate but that shouldnt stop us trying'.. A A Gill
'My unhealthy affection for my second daughter has waned. Now I despise all my seven children equally.'.. Evelyn Waugh
'Paganism is infectious, more infectious than diphtheria or piety.'.. E M Forster
'Knowledge is power.'.. Sir Francis Bacon
'On the whole, human beings want to be good, but not too good, and not quite all the time'.. George Orwell
'Christianity will go. It will vanish and shrink. I needn't argue with that; I'm right and I will be proved right.'.. John Lennon
'There is no such thing as darkness; only a failure to see.'.. Malcolm Muggeridge
'He that hath knowledge spareth his words.'.. Sir Francis Bacon
'The very first requirement in a hospital is that it should do the sick no harm.'.. Florence Nightingale