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Famous British Quotes
'If I could I would always work in silence and obscurity, and let my efforts be known by their results.'.. Emily Bronte
'Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.'.. T S Eliot
'I have long held the view that if a Vet cannot catch his patient there is not much to worry about'.. James Herriot
'One's life has many compartments.'.. Harold Pinter
'Writers should be read, but neither seen nor heard.'.. Daphne du Maurier
'It may be the cock that crows, but it is the hen that lays the eggs.'.. Margaret Thatcher
'The mark of a good action is that it appears inevitable in retrospect.'.. Robert Louis Stevenson
'Breed is stronger than pasture.'.. George Eliot
'For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbors and laugh at them in our turn?'.. Jane Austen
'The true definition of a snob is one who craves for what separates men rather than for what unites them'.. John Buchan
'I don't believe that the public knows what it wants; this is the conclusion that I have drawn from my career.'.. Charlie Chaplin
'Be not afraid of greatness: some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them'.. William Shakespeare
'It is the test of a good religion whether you can joke about it.'.. GK Chesterton
'If we don't end war, war will end us.'.. H G Wells
'I have never had problems with drugs. I have had problems with the police....'.. Keith Richards
'A young man who isn't a socialist hasn't got a heart; an old man who is a socialist hasn't got a head.'.. David Lloyd George
'Life is obstinate and clings closest where it is most hated.'.. Mary Shelley
'I would rather trust a woman's instinct than a man's reason.'.. Stanley Baldwin
'One leak will sink a ship: and one sin will destroy a sinner.'.. John Bunyan
'Do what you will, this world's a fiction and is made up of contradiction'.. William Blake
'I have seen great intolerance shown in support of tolerance.'.. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
'The problem with committing political suicide is that you may live to regret it'.. Winston Churchill
'History will see advertising as one of the real evil things of our time. It is stimulating people constantly to want things, want this, want that.'.. Malcolm Muggeridge
'If you aren't in over your head, how do you know how tall you are?'.. T S Eliot
'To all, to each, a fair good-night, and pleasing dreams, and slumbers light.'.. Walter Scott
'I thought I'd begin by reading a poem by Shakespeare, but then I thought, why should I? He never reads any of mine.'.. Spike Milligan
'A fishing rod is a stick with a hook at one end and a fool at the other'.. Samuel Johnson
'Nobody ever died of laughter.'.. Max Beerbohm
'Great bodies of people are never responsible for what they do.'.. Virginia Woolf
'To make your children capable of honesty is the beginning of education.'.. John Ruskin