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Famous British Quotes
'Civilisation is the distance man has put between himself and his excreta'.. Brian Aldiss
'Justice delayed is justice denied.'.. W E Gladstone
'By nature, men love newfangledness.'.. Geoffrey Chaucer
'An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered'.. GK Chesterton
'It's not whether you win or lose, it's how many people remember you when you die.'.. Jonathan Ross
'I believe the first test of a truly great man is in his humility.'.. John Ruskin
'I sometimes think that God in creating man somewhat overestimated his ability.'.. Oscar Wilde
'The higher the building the lower the morals.'.. Noel Coward
'If I had not some strength of will I would make a first class drunkard.'.. Ernest Shackleton
'There is frequently more to be learned from the unexpected questions of a child than the discourses of men'.. John Locke
'Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard are sweeter.'.. John Keats
'People who say it cannot be done should not interrupt those who are doing it'.. George Bernard Shaw
'Insecurity, commonly regarded as a weakness in normal people, is the basic tool of the actor's trade'.. Miranda Richardson
'Liberty is not merely a privilege to be conferred; it is a habit to be acquired'.. David Lloyd George
'Boldness is a mask for fear, however great.'.. John Dryden
'You can always count on Americans to do the right thing - after they've tried everything else.'.. Winston Churchill
'Better to be without logic than without feeling.'.. Charlotte Bronte
'If you give up drink and sex, you don't live longer. It just seems longer'.. Clement Freud
'I enjoy convalescence. It is the part that makes the illness worth while'.. George Bernard Shaw
'Live as long as you may, the first twenty years are the longest half of your life.'.. Robert Southey
'Death, so called, is a thing which makes men weep, And yet a third of life is passed in sleep'.. Lord Byron
'Talking is the disease of age.'.. Ben Jonson
'Conventionality is not morality.'.. Charlotte Bronte
'Commerce changes the fate and genius of nations.'.. Thomas Gray
'Old Professors never die, they just lose their faculties.'.. Stephen Fry
'To destroy is still the strongest instinct in nature.'.. Max Beerbohm
'The only statistics you can trust are the ones who can falsify yourself'.. Winston Churchill
'We pay when old for the excesses of youth.'.. J B Priestley
'My whole life is waiting for the questions to which I have prepared answers.'.. Sir Tom Stoppard
'Anything worth doing is worth overdoing.'.. Mick Jagger