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Famous British Quotes
'A wise man should have money in his head, but not in his heart.'.. Jonathan Swift
'My whole life is waiting for the questions to which I have prepared answers.'.. Sir Tom Stoppard
'To me there has never been a higher source of earthly honor or distinction than that connected with advances in science'.. Isaac Newton
'Three minutes thought would suffice to sort this out but thought is irksome and three minutes is a long time'.. A E Housman
'Riches are a good hand maiden, but a poor mistress.'.. Sir Francis Bacon
'I became a great runner because if you are a kid in Leeds called Sebastian you have to be'.. Sebastian Coe
'We know what happens to people who stay in the middle of the road. They get run down.'.. Aneurin Bevan
'Europe was created by history. America was created by philosophy'.. Margaret Thatcher
'Justice and judgment lie often a world apart.'.. Emmeline Pankhurst
'I try to avoid looking forward or backward, and try to keep looking upward.'.. Charlotte Bronte
'It's not the voting that's democracy; it's the counting.'.. Sir Tom Stoppard
'Except a living man, there is nothing more wonderful than a book.'.. Charles Kingsley
'The worst moment for the atheist is when he is really thankful and has nobody to thank.'.. Dante G Rossetti
'Greatness and goodness are not means, but ends.'.. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
'If you carry your childhood with you, you never become older.'.. Sir Tom Stoppard
'Many a man is praised for his reserve and so-called shyness when he is simply too proud to risk making a fool of himself.'.. J B Priestley
'I desire no future that will break the ties with the past.'.. George Eliot
'When a stupid man is doing something he is ashamed of, he always declares that it is his duty.'.. George Bernard Shaw
'I used to go missing a lot...Miss Canada, Miss United Kingdom, Miss World.'.. George Best
'My only regret in life is that I did not drink more champagne'.. John Maynard Keynes
'I don't know many singers who actually do like the sound of their own voice'.. Roger Daltrey
'Every exit is an entry somewhere else.'.. Sir Tom Stoppard
'Beauty is a short-lived tyranny.'.. George Bernard Shaw
'Money can't buy you happiness but it does bring you a more pleasant form of misery.'.. Spike Milligan
'Doing is the great thing, for if people resolutely do what is right, they come in time to like doing it.'.. John Ruskin
'Old men are dangerous: it doesn't matter to them what is going to happen to the world'.. George Bernard Shaw
'Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will make me go in a corner and cry by myself for hours.'.. Eric Idle
'A good gulp of hot whiskey at bedtime - it's not very scientific but it helps'.. Alexander Fleming
'If you aren't in over your head, how do you know how tall you are?'.. T S Eliot
'Some of my best leading men have been dogs and horses.'.. Elizabeth Taylor