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Famous British Quotes
'Nothing is so fatal to religion as indifference.'.. Edmund Burke
'What we need is not the will to believe, but the wish to find out.'.. William Wordsworth
'There are strings in the human heart that had better not be vibrated.'.. Charles Dickens
'You owe it to us all to get on with what you're good at.'.. W H Auden
'All money is a matter of belief.'.. Adam Smith
'Love is not love that alters when it alteration finds.'.. William Shakespeare
'This is the first age that's ever paid much attention to the future, which is a little ironic since we may not have one'.. Arthur C Clarke
'Incongruity is the mainspring of laughter.'.. Max Beerbohm
'I am not struck so much by the diversity of testimony as by the many-sidedness of truth.'.. Stanley Baldwin
'I don't think I am any good. If I thought I was any good, I wouldn't be.'.. John Betjeman
'Never trust a man, who when left alone with a tea cosey... Doesn't try it on.'.. Billy Connolly
'Let sleeping dogs lie.'.. Robert Walpole
'A man without a goal is like a ship without a rudder.'.. Thomas Carlyle
'God not only plays dice, He also sometimes throws the dice where they cannot be seen.'.. Stephen Hawking
'The delicate balance between modesty and conceit is popularity.'.. Max Beerbohm
'Mad Dogs and Englishmen go out in the midday sun'.. Noel Coward
'A day wasted on others is not wasted on one's self.'.. Charles Dickens
'Have a heart that never hardens, and a temper that never tires, and a touch that never hurts.'.. Charles Dickens
'Contraceptives should be used on every conceivable occasion.'.. Spike Milligan
'Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.'.. T S Eliot
'Exhilaration is that feeling you get just after a great idea hits you, and just before you realize what`s wrong with it.'.. Rex Harrison
'Capitalism is the astounding belief that the most wickedest of men will do the most wickedest of things for the greatest good of everyone'.. John Maynard Keynes
'Keep violence in the mind where it belongs.'.. Brian Aldiss
'So little done, so much to do.'.. Cecil Rhodes
'Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.'.. Bertrand Russell
'There's nothing glorious in dying. Anyone can do it'.. John Lydon (Johnny Rotten)
'We forge the chains we wear in life.'.. Charles Dickens
'The best car safety device is a rear-view mirror with a cop in it'.. Dudley Moore
'There is no such thing as the pursuit of happiness, but there is the discovery of joy'.. Joyce Grenfell
'Poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese'.. GK Chesterton