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Famous British Quotes
'An ounce of mother is worth a pound of clergy.'.. Rudyard Kipling
'I'm an optimist, but an optimist who carries a raincoat.'.. Harold Wilson
'I always said God was against art and I still believe it.'.. Edward Elgar
'All our discontents about what we want appeared to spring from the want of thankfulness for what we have.'.. Daniel Defoe
'If Galileo had said in verse that the world moved, the inquisition might have let him alone'.. Thomas Hardy
'Not what I have, but what I do is my kingdom.'.. Thomas Carlyle
'Death is just life's next big adventure.'.. J K Rowling
'I have no intention of uttering my last words on stage. A couple of depraved young girls and room service will do me fine'.. Peter O’Toole
'When I was a nurse my favourite assignment was the anorexia ward. I sometimes had 17 dinners'.. Jo Brand
'Genius at first is little more than a great capacity for receiving discipline'.. George Eliot
'I used to desire many, many things, but now I have just one desire, and that's to get rid of all my other desires'.. John Cleese
'I don't work at being ordinary.'.. Paul McCartney
'But love's a malady without a cure.'.. John Dryden
'We have always found the Irish a bit odd. They refuse to be English.'.. Winston Churchill
'It is not reasonable that those who gamble with men's lives should not stake their own.'.. H G Wells
'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
'Most people perform well in a crisis - when the spotlight is on them; it's on the Sunday afternoons of this life, when no-one is looking, that the spirit falters.'.. Alan Bennett
'The future is purchased by the present.'.. Samuel Johnson
'Nature uses as little as possible of anything'.. Alan Bleasdale
'I hate the idea of causes, and if I had to choose between betraying my country and betraying my friend, I hope I should have the guts to betray my country'.. E M Forster
'Let us reform our schools, and we shall find little reform needed in our prisons'.. John Ruskin
'For several days after my first book was published, I carried it about in my pocket and took surreptitious peeps at it to make sure the ink had not faded.'.. J M Barrie
'A mother is a mother still, The holiest thing alive.'.. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
'It is only in the world of objects that we have time and space and selves.'.. T S Eliot
'He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches.'.. George Bernard Shaw
'If I cannot understand my friend's silence, I will never get to understand his words.'.. Enoch Powell
'Sometimes when you're drunk you can see better.'.. Damien Hirst
'Better to reign in hell than serve in heaven'.. John Milton
'Marriage is like paying an endless visit in your worst clothes.'.. J B Priestley
'I am half British and half American. My passport has an eagle with a tea bag in its mouth'.. Bob Hope