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Famous British Quotes
'The wisest prophets make sure of the event first.'.. Horace Walpole
'As love without esteem is capricious and volatile; esteem without love is languid and cold.'.. Jonathan Swift
'Almost all crime is due to the repressed desire for aesthetic expression.'.. Evelyn Waugh
'Enlightened people seldom or never possess a sense of responsibility'.. George Orwell
'Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead'.. Oscar Wilde
'Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.'.. Winston Churchill
'In the end, everything is a gag.'.. Charlie Chaplin
'Nature, to be commanded, must be obeyed.'.. Sir Francis Bacon
'Great discoveries and improvements invariably involve the cooperation of many minds'.. Alexander Graham Bell
'Every man dies. Not every man really lives.'.. William Wallace
'One of the things being in politics has taught me is that men are not a reasoned or reasonable sex'.. Margaret Thatcher
'No man is good enough to be another's master.'.. William Morris
'Laziness has become the chief characteristic of journalism, displacing incompetence.'.. Sir Kingsley Amis
'He who has health, has hope; and he who has hope, has everything.'.. Thomas Carlyle
'We give advice by the bucket, but take it by the grain.'.. Sir Tom Stoppard
'Twin-sister of Religion, Selfishness.'.. Percy Bysshe Shelley
'Swansea - Ugh, Lovely town'.. Dylan Thomas
'I dont speak French, I dont speak English, I am from Yorkshire'.. Geoffrey Boycott
'Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable'.. Sir Francis Bacon
'The world is a place on which England is to be found'.. GK Chesterton
'Paradise Lost is a book that, once put down, is very hard to pick up again.'.. Samuel Johnson
'I'll go through life either first class or third, but never in second.'.. Noel Coward
'Gentleman do not throw wine at ladies. They pour it over them'.. Auberon Waugh
'I'm a classic example of all humorists - only funny when I'm working'.. Peter Sellers
'Instead of this absurd division into sexes they ought to class people as static and dynamic.'.. Evelyn Waugh
'I was court-martialled in my absence, and sentenced to death in my absence, so I said they could shoot me in my absence.'.. Thomas Hardy
'Have a heart that never hardens, and a temper that never tires, and a touch that never hurts.'.. Charles Dickens
'History is a cyclic poem written by time upon the memories of man'.. Percy Bysshe Shelley
'Somebody said to me, 'But the Beatles were anti-materialistic.' That's a huge myth. John and I literally used to sit down and say, 'Now, let's write a swimming pool.''.. Paul McCartney
'I chose my wife, as she did her wedding gown, for qualities that would wear well'.. Oliver Goldsmith