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Famous British Quotes
'England is not all the world.'.. Mary, Queen of Scots
'I dont make predictions. I never have and I never will'.. Tony Blair
'I think if Keith Moon was here today and you asked him to recall most of his early life or most of his life, he wouldn't be able to recall it.'.. Roger Daltrey
'Education: the inculcation of the incomprehensible into the indifferent by the incompetent'.. John Maynard Keynes
'Better never than late.'.. George Bernard Shaw
'I chose my wife, as she did her wedding gown, for qualities that would wear well'.. Oliver Goldsmith
'That great Cathedral space which was childhood.'.. Virginia Woolf
'There's no such thing as old age, there is only sorrow'.. Fay Weldon
'Diligence is the mother of good fortune.'.. Benjamin Disraeli
'A laugh, to be joyous, must flow from a joyous heart, for without kindness, there can be no true joy'.. Thomas Carlyle
'Love in all eight tones and all five semitones of the word's full octave.'.. Stephen Fry
'Pleasure is none, if not diversified.'.. John Donne
'I only go out to get me a fresh appetite for being alone.'.. Lord Byron
'The real character of a man is found out by his amusements.'.. Joshua Reynolds
'Being powerful is like being a lady. If you have to tell people you are, you aren't'.. Margaret Thatcher
'Everyone seems to fear dying alone. I have never understood this - who wants to die and be polite at the same time'.. Quentin Crisp
'I have changed. I no longer keep coal in the bath. I keep it in the bidet'.. John Prescott
'Once you decide to work for yourself, you never go back to work for somebody else.'.. Alan Sugar
'For all my education, accomplishments, and so called 'wisdom'... I can't fathom my own heart'.. Michael Caine
'Men of my age live in a state of continual desperation.'.. Vita Sackville-West
'I am humble enough to know I have made mistakes but politically astute enough to know that I have forgotten what they are'.. Michael Heseltine
'For all right judgment of any man or things it is useful, nay, essential, to see his good qualities before pronouncing on his bad.'.. Thomas Carlyle
'A good thing never ends.'.. Mick Jagger
'At the side of the everlasting why, is a yes, and a yes, and a yes.'.. E M Forster
'I took on the sins of everybody, of a generation, really'.. Christine Keeler
'The main object of religion is not to get a man into heaven, but to get heaven into him'.. Thomas Hardy
'The human species, according to the best theory I can form of it, is composed of two distinct races, the men who borrow and the men who lend.'.. Charles Lamb
'The perfect love affair is one which is conducted entirely by post.'.. George Bernard Shaw
'One of the things being in politics has taught me is that men are not a reasoned or reasonable sex'.. Margaret Thatcher
'Agitation is the marshalling of the conscience of a nation to mold its laws.'.. Robert Peel