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Famous British Quotes
'It is not so much that the world has got so much worse but that news coverage has got so much better'.. GK Chesterton
'It was a very simple team talk. All I used to say was: 'Whenever possible, give the ball to George'.. Matt Busby
'To myself I am only a child playing on the beach, while vast oceans of truth lie undiscovered before me'.. Isaac Newton
'A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its autho'.. GK Chesterton
'To generalize is to be an idiot.'.. William Blake
'A family with the wrong members in control; that, perhaps, is as near as one can come to describing England in a phrase.'.. George Orwell
'I always said God was against art and I still believe it.'.. Edward Elgar
'We are all here on earth to help others; what on earth the others are here for I don't know.'.. W H Auden
'Flattery corrupts both the receiver and the giver.'.. Edmund Burke
'In the old days men had the rack. Now they have the Press'.. Oscar Wilde
'My wife is a sex object - every time I ask for sex, she objects.'.. Les Dawson
'The purpose of getting power is to be able to give it away'.. Aneurin Bevan
'When hospitality becomes an art it loses its very soul.'.. Max Beerbohm
'Borrow trouble for yourself, if that's your nature, but don't lend it to your neighbours'.. Rudyard Kipling
'I love not man the less, but Nature more.'.. Lord Byron
'Europe was created by history. America was created by philosophy'.. Margaret Thatcher
'Health is the state about which medicine has nothing to say.'.. W H Auden
'Older women are best, because they always think they may be doing it for the last time.'.. Ian Fleming
'I have changed. I no longer keep coal in the bath. I keep it in the bidet'.. John Prescott
'To his dog, every man is Napoleon; hence the constant popularity of dogs.'.. Aldous Huxley
'Our greatest glory consists not in never failing, but in rising every time we fall'.. Oliver Goldsmith
'Whichever party is in office, the Treasury is in power.'.. Harold Wilson
'Nature never did betray the heart that loved her.'.. William Wordsworth
'Instead of this absurd division into sexes they ought to class people as static and dynamic.'.. Evelyn Waugh
'As a woman I have no country. As a woman my country is the whole world.'.. Virginia Woolf
'Diplomacy, is the art of letting somebody else have your way.'.. David Frost
'Language ought to be the joint creation of poets and manual workers'.. George Orwell
'Our incomes are like our shoes; if too small, they gall and pinch us; but if too large, they cause us to stumble and to trip.'.. John Locke
'Five minutes on even the nicest mountain is awfully long'.. W H Auden
'There are some things you can't share without ending up liking each other.'.. J K Rowling