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Famous British Quotes
'If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear'.. George Orwell
'Life is made of ever so many partings welded together.'.. Charles Dickens
'As far as I am concerned the paint is the person. I want it to work for me just as flesh does.'.. Lucien Freud
'As with the Christian religion, the worst advertisement for Socialism is its adherents'.. George Orwell
'Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.'.. Winston Churchill
'People do not believe lies because they have to, but because they want to'.. Malcolm Muggeridge
'The enemy of idealism is zealotry.'.. Neil Kinnock
'When love and skill work together, expect a masterpiece.'.. John Ruskin
'Jogging is for people who aren't intelligent enough to watch breakfast TV'.. Victoria Wood
'War is a quarrel between two thieves too cowardly to fight their own battle.'.. Thomas Carlyle
'Who, being loved, is poor?'.. Oscar Wilde
'I left England when I was 4 when I discovered that I couldnt be king'.. Bob Hope
'It took me years to understand that words are often as important as experience, because words make experience last'.. William Morris
'Cowards die many times before their deaths; the valiant never taste of death but once'.. William Shakespeare
'Everybody grows but me.'.. Queen Victoria
'We often repent of our first thoughts, and scarce ever of our second'.. Horace Walpole
'The surest way to fail is not to determine to succeed.'.. Richard Sheridan
'Every new opinion, at its starting, is precisely in a minority of one.'.. Thomas Carlyle
'How very little can be done under the spirit of fear.'.. Florence Nightingale
'Doing is the great thing, for if people resolutely do what is right, they come in time to like doing it.'.. John Ruskin
'A man that hoards up riches and enjoys them not, is like an ass that carries gold and eats thistles'.. Richard Burton
'A ruffled mind makes a restless pillow.'.. Charlotte Bronte
'Some of my best leading men have been dogs and horses.'.. Elizabeth Taylor
'I think that by ignoring the show you're ignoring the audience who put you there'.. Simon Cowell
'There are three rules for writing a novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are'.. Somerset Maugham
'You can always count on Americans to do the right thing - after they've tried everything else.'.. Winston Churchill
'Nothing is pleasant that is not spiced with variety.'.. Sir Francis Bacon
'Never the time and the place and the loved one all together!'.. Robert Browning
'We dont know much about the human conscience except that its soluble in alcohol'.. Sir John Mortimer
'God has two dwellings; one in heaven, and the other in a meek and thankful heart.'.. Izaak Walton