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Famous British Quotes
'It is only in the world of objects that we have time and space and selves.'.. T S Eliot
'For all right judgment of any man or things it is useful, nay, essential, to see his good qualities before pronouncing on his bad.'.. Thomas Carlyle
'In politics, there is no use looking beyond the next fortnight.'.. Joseph Chamberlain
'Some of my best leading men have been dogs and horses.'.. Elizabeth Taylor
'Russia is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma.'.. Winston Churchill
'If at first you don’t succeed, failure may be your style'.. Quentin Crisp
'Alcohol is the anesthesia by which we endure the operation of life.'.. George Bernard Shaw
'My feeling is that if I'm going to write my life story, I ought to have my life first.'.. Dawn French
'It is better to lose health like a spendthrift than to waste it like a miser.'.. Robert Louis Stevenson
'Friendship is Love without his wings'.. Lord Byron
'The printing press is the greatest weapon in the armoury of the modern commander'.. T E Lawrence
'We cherish our friends not for their ability to amuse us, but for ours to amuse them.'.. Evelyn Waugh
'Charm, in most men and nearly all women, is a decoration.'.. E M Forster
'The worst enemy of life, freedom and the common decencies is total anarchy; their second worst enemy is total efficiency.'.. Aldous Huxley
'Borrow trouble for yourself, if that's your nature, but don't lend it to your neighbours'.. Rudyard Kipling
'The greatest tragedy in mankind's entire history may be the hijacking of morality by religion'.. Arthur C Clarke
'A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject.'.. Winston Churchill
'Thank you for leaving us alone but giving us enough attention to boost our egos'.. Mick Jagger
'It's an honor to be on the same network that gave us 'The Sopranos,' ... They made me an offer I couldn't refuse.'.. Ricky Gervais
'Television has bought murder back in to the home - where it belongs'.. Alfred Hitchcock
'I have nothing to declare except my genuis.'.. Oscar Wilde
'But there, everything has its drawbacks, as the man said when his mother-in-law died, and they came down upon him for the funeral expenses'.. Jerome K Jerome
'I have taken more out of alcohol than alcohol has taken out of me.'.. Winston Churchill
'Being a woman is a terribly difficult task, since it consists principally in dealing with men.'.. Joseph Conrad
'Always be a little kinder than necessary.'.. J M Barrie
'All our discontents about what we want appeared to spring from the want of thankfulness for what we have.'.. Daniel Defoe
'All that we are not stares back at what we are.'.. W H Auden
'The only statistics you can trust are the ones who can falsify yourself'.. Winston Churchill
'Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught'.. Oscar Wilde
'Heresies are experiments in man's unsatisfied search for truth.'.. H G Wells