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Famous British Quotes
''Tis the last rose of summer Left blooming alone; All her lovely companions Are faded and gone.'.. Thomas More
'The world is a republic of mediocrities, and always was.'.. Thomas Carlyle
'General principles... are to the facts as the root and sap of a tree are to its leaves'.. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
'Don't clap too hard - it's a very old building.'.. John Osborne
'We always have been, we are, and I hope that we always will be detested in France'.. Duke of Wellington
'The only statistics you can trust are the ones who can falsify yourself'.. Winston Churchill
'All movements go too far.'.. Bertrand Russell
'Discretion is the perfection of reason, and a guide to us in all the duties of life.'.. Walter Scott
'You will find that the woman who is really kind to dogs is always one who has failed to inspire sympathy in men'.. Max Beerbohm
'The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good'.. Samuel Johnson
'I have long held the view that if a Vet cannot catch his patient there is not much to worry about'.. James Herriot
'Man is the only creature that consumes without producing. He does not give milk, he does not lay eggs, he is too weak to pull the plough, he cannot run fast enough to catch rabbits. Yet he is lord of all the animals'.. George Orwell
'Life is wasted on the living'.. Douglas Adams
'One person with a belief is equal to ninety-nine who have only interests'.. John Stuart Mill
'If there were no bad people, there would be no good lawyers.'.. Charles Dickens
'If you can't annoy somebody, there's little point in writing.'.. Sir Kingsley Amis
'Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.'.. Rudyard Kipling
'Keep violence in the mind where it belongs.'.. Brian Aldiss
'What though youth gave love and roses, Age still leaves us friends and wine.'.. Thomas More
'Having children is like having a bowling alley installed in your brain'.. Alan Bleasdale
'History develops, art stands still.'.. E M Forster
'Marriage: A friendship recognized by the police.'.. Robert Louis Stevenson
'You may be as vicious about me as you please. You will only do me justice.'.. Richard Burton
'All wealth is the product of labour.'.. John Locke
'You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it.'.. Margaret Thatcher
'The House of Lords is like a glass of champagne that has stood for five days'.. Clement Attlee
'Talent, lying in the understanding, is often inherited; genius, being the action of reason or imagination, rarely or never'.. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
'An aim in life is the only fortune worth finding.'.. Robert Louis Stevenson
'Everyone who wants to do good to the human race always ends in universal bullying'.. Aldous Huxley
'Unless we remember we cannot understand.'.. E M Forster