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Famous British Quotes
'The one great principle of English Law is to make business for itself'.. Charles Dickens
'I should prefer to have a politician who regularly went to a massage parlour than one who promised a laptop computer for every teacher.'.. A N Wilson
'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
'There is a wisdom of the head, and a wisdom of the heart.'.. Charles Dickens
'There is not in nature, a thing that makes man so deformed, so beastly, as doth intemperate anger.'.. Alan Bleasdale
'Fertilizer does no good in a heap, but a little spread around works miracles all over.'.. Richard Sheridan
'I've searched all the parks in all the cities and found no statues of committees'.. GK Chesterton
'He threatens many that hath injured one'.. Ben Jonson
'A sure cure for seasickness is to sit under a tree.'.. Spike Milligan
'Whether happiness may come or not, one should try and prepare one's self to do without it.'.. George Eliot
'You never know what is enough unless you know what is more than enough.'.. William Blake
'A man can be happy with any woman as long as he does not love her'.. Oscar Wilde
'In human relationships, kindness and lies are worth a thousand truths'.. Graham Greene
'The real tragedy of the poor is the poverty of their aspirations'.. Adam Smith
'Science is but an image of the truth.'.. Sir Francis Bacon
'When a society has to resort to the lavatory for its humour the writing is on the wall'.. Alan Bennett
'Make all you can, save all you can, give all you can.'.. John Wesley
'Thousands have lived without love, not one without water.'.. W H Auden
'Now that I know what I want, I don't have to hold on to it quite so much.'.. Lucien Freud
'An idea, like a ghost, must be spoken to a little before it will explain itself.'.. Charles Dickens
'Genius not only diagnoses the situation but supplies the answers.'.. Robert Graves
'Every absurdity has a champion to defend it.'.. Oliver Goldsmith
'The finest eloquence is that which gets things done.'.. David Lloyd George
'What's done can't be undone.'.. William Shakespeare
'How very little can be done under the spirit of fear.'.. Florence Nightingale
'An aim in life is the only fortune worth finding.'.. Robert Louis Stevenson
'Fashion is what you adopt when you dont know who you are'.. Quentin Crisp
'He has all of the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.'.. Winston Churchill
'I have taken more out of alcohol than alcohol has taken out of me.'.. Winston Churchill
'I didn't come into politics to change the Labour Party. I came into politics to change the country'.. Tony Blair