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Famous British Quotes
'The most precious things in speech are pauses.'.. Ralph Richardson
'In order that people may be happy in their work, these three things are needed: They must be fit for it. They must not do too much of it. And they must have a sense of success in it.'.. John Ruskin
''May my last breath be drawn from a pipe and exhaled in a pun''.. Charles Lamb
'A man must make his opportunity, as oft as find it.'.. Sir Francis Bacon
'There is nothing constant in this world but inconsistency.'.. Jonathan Swift
'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
'The highest possible stage in moral culture is when we recognize that we ought to control our thoughts.'.. Charles Darwin
'Put three Englishmen on a desert island and within an hour they will have invented a class system'.. Alan Ayckbourn
'A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject.'.. Winston Churchill
'I've only slept with men I've been married to. How many women can make that claim?'.. Elizabeth Taylor
'All the world over, I will back the masses against the classes.'.. W E Gladstone
'Understand that sexuality is as wide as the sea. Understand that your morality is not law'.. Derek Jarman
'My only regret in life is that I did not drink more champagne'.. John Maynard Keynes
'Every absurdity has a champion to defend it.'.. Oliver Goldsmith
'A smile abroad is often a scowl at home.'.. Alfred Lord Tennyson
'Heroes, whatever high ideas we may have of them, are mortal and not divine. We are all as God made us and many of us much worse.'.. John Osborne
'Human blunders usually do more to shape history than human wickedness.'.. A J P Taylor
'I've searched all the parks in all the cities and found no statues of committees'.. GK Chesterton
'I attribute my success to this - I never gave or took any excuse.'.. Florence Nightingale
''Tis the last rose of summer Left blooming alone; All her lovely companions Are faded and gone.'.. Thomas More
'I will show you fear in a handful of dust.'.. T S Eliot
'A person who is gifted sees the essential point and leaves the rest as surplus.'.. Thomas Carlyle
'A man is in general better pleased when he has a good dinner upon his table, than when his wife talks Greek'.. Samuel Johnson
'I wouldnt say I was the best manager in the business but I was in the top 1'.. Brian Clough
'Civilisation is the distance man has put between himself and his excreta'.. Brian Aldiss
'We are just an advanced breed of monkeys on a minor planet of a very average star. But we can understand the Universe. That makes us something very special.'.. Stephen Hawking
'When a stupid man is doing something he is ashamed of, he always declares that it is his duty.'.. George Bernard Shaw
'Fertilizer does no good in a heap, but a little spread around works miracles all over.'.. Richard Sheridan
'A good thing never ends.'.. Mick Jagger
'I could not live in a country so miserable as to possess no castles'.. John Ruskin