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Famous British Quotes
'Lack of money is the root of all evil.'.. George Bernard Shaw
'In politics, what begins in fear usually ends in failure.'.. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
'Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.'.. George Bernard Shaw
'Immortality is really desirable, I guess. In terms of images, anyway.'.. Damien Hirst
'They say an actor is only as good as his parts. Well my parts have done me pretty well'.. Barbara Windsor
'Without humility there can be no humanity.'.. John Buchan
'Time you enjoy wasting, was not wasted.'.. John Lennon
'It's not the having, it's the getting.'.. Elizabeth Taylor
'People are wrong when they say opera is not what it used to be. It is what it used to be. That is what's wrong with it.'.. Noel Coward
'I try to avoid looking forward or backward, and try to keep looking upward.'.. Charlotte Bronte
'Love-making is an art which must be studied.'.. Ivor Novello
'There are some things only intellectuals are crazy enough to believe'.. George Orwell
'Friendship is Love without his wings'.. Lord Byron
'To sentence a man of true genius, to the drudgery of a school is to put a racehorse on a treadmill'.. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
'A lover without indiscretion is no lover at all.'.. Thomas Hardy
'No one can read with profit that which he cannot learn to read with pleasure.'.. Thomas Hardy
'All mankind... being all equal and independent, no one ought to harm another in his life, health, liberty or possessions.'.. John Locke
'Credulity is the man's weakness, but the child's strength.'.. Charles Lamb
'No one rises so high as he who knows not whither he is going.'.. Oliver Cromwell
'I don't watch television, I think it destroys the art of talking about oneself.'.. Stephen Fry
'He threatens many that hath injured one'.. Ben Jonson
'I do not want a husband who honours me as a queen, if he does not love me as a woman.'.. Elizabeth I
'In human relationships, kindness and lies are worth a thousand truths'.. Graham Greene
'Subtlety may deceive you; integrity never will.'.. Oliver Cromwell
'I dont understand the French. These are people with a town called Brest and none of them think its funny'.. Al Murray
'All our discontents about what we want appeared to spring from the want of thankfulness for what we have.'.. Daniel Defoe
'Nurture your minds with great thoughts. To believe in the heroic makes heroes'.. Benjamin Disraeli
'Our incomes are like our shoes; if too small, they gall and pinch us; but if too large, they cause us to stumble and to trip.'.. John Locke
'Is there anything worn under the kilt? No, it's all in perfect working order.'.. Spike Milligan
'If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear'.. George Orwell