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Famous British Quotes
'A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty'.. Winston Churchill
'Money doesn't mind if we say it's evil, it goes from strength to strength. It's a fiction, an addiction, and a tacit conspiracy'.. Martin Amis
'If you think squash is a competitive activity, try flower arranging.'.. Alan Bennett
'In politics, what begins in fear usually ends in failure.'.. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
'Experience is the child of thought, and thought is the child of action.'.. Benjamin Disraeli
'Politics is the art of making the inevitable seem planned'.. Quentin Crisp
'No man ever became great or good except through many and great mistakes.'.. W E Gladstone
'Royalty is the gold teeth in a mouth full of decay'.. John Osborne
'Success is the child of audacity.'.. Benjamin Disraeli
'No one rises so high as he who knows not whither he is going.'.. Oliver Cromwell
'Poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese'.. GK Chesterton
'Without tact you can learn nothing.'.. Benjamin Disraeli
'If I decide to be indecisive, that's my decision.'.. Roger McGough
'It wasn't until late in life that I discovered how easy it is to say "I don't know."'.. Somerset Maugham
'Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies.'.. John Donne
'Never forget that only dead fish swim with the stream.'.. Malcolm Muggeridge
'Several excuses are always less convincing than one.'.. Aldous Huxley
'How paramount the future is to the present when one is surrounded by children.'.. Charles Darwin
'Happiness is not a possession to be prized, it is a quality of thought, a state of mind.'.. Daphne du Maurier
'She said, 'I'm your biggest fan,' and I said, 'Who are you?' She said, 'Paris Hilton''.. Ricky Gervais
'Do what you will, this world's a fiction and is made up of contradiction'.. William Blake
'There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.'.. Benjamin Disraeli
'When love and skill work together, expect a masterpiece.'.. John Ruskin
'Man is the creature of circumstances.'.. Robert Owen
'There is a woman at the beginning of all great things.'.. Alan Bleasdale
'If you set out to be liked, you would be prepared to compromise on anything at any time, and you would achieve nothing'.. Margaret Thatcher
'Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.'.. Bertrand Russell
'The highest possible stage in moral culture is when we recognize that we ought to control our thoughts.'.. Charles Darwin
'The silliest woman can manage a clever man; but it needs a very clever woman to manage a fool.'.. Rudyard Kipling
'It's not the having, it's the getting.'.. Elizabeth Taylor