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Famous British Quotes
'England and America are two countries separated by the same language.'.. George Bernard Shaw
'I've never intended to be controversial but it's very easy to be controversial in pop music because nobody ever is'.. Morrissey
'I don't mind how much my Ministers talk, so long as they do what I say'.. Margaret Thatcher
'Kinross House, the beautiful and regular piece of architecture in all of Scotland'.. Daniel Defoe
'Both read the Bible day and night, but thou read black where I read white'.. William Blake
'We cast a shadow on something wherever we stand.'.. E M Forster
'If I have seen further than others, it is by standing upon the shoulders of giants'.. Isaac Newton
'One of the disadvantages of wine is that it makes a man mistake words for thoughts.'.. Samuel Johnson
'I count religion but a childish toy, and hold there is no sin but ignorance.'.. Christopher Marlowe
'The overall impression from the British is that they love France but would prefer it if the French didn't live there'.. Sir John Mortimer
'I did not fully understand the dread term 'terminal illness' until I saw Heathrow for myself.'.. Dennis Potter
'Europe was created by history. America was created by philosophy'.. Margaret Thatcher
'Money doesn't mind if we say it's evil, it goes from strength to strength. It's a fiction, an addiction, and a tacit conspiracy'.. Martin Amis
'I hate people who think it's clever to take drugs... like custom officers'.. Jack Dee
'If you feel that life is one of Gods jokes there is still no reason not to make it a good oke'.. Kenneth Williams
'The true secret of happiness lies in taking a genuine interest in all the details of daily life.'.. William Morris
'Men can only be happy when they do not assume that the object of life is happiness'.. George Orwell
'All fantasy should have a solid base in reality.'.. Max Beerbohm
'A man who does not think for himself does not think at all.'.. Oscar Wilde
'We shape our buildings; thereafter they shape us.'.. Winston Churchill
'No man can be an agnostic who has a sense of humour.'.. E M Forster
'When thinking about companions gone, we feel ourselves doubly alone.'.. Walter Scott
'We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience'.. George Bernard Shaw
'In a completely sane world, madness is the only freedom!'.. James G Ballard
'People who can't be witty exert themselves to be devout and affectionate.'.. George Eliot
'Successful investing is anticipating the anticipations of others.'.. John Maynard Keynes
'I do not live in the world of sobriety.'.. Oliver Reed
'Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable'.. Sir Francis Bacon
'There is no education like adversity.'.. Benjamin Disraeli
'Love seeketh not itself to please, nor for itself hath any care, but for another gives its ease, and builds a Heaven in Hell's despair'.. William Blake