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Famous British Quotes
'There is no real wealth but the labor of man.'.. Percy Bysshe Shelley
'Lack of money is the root of all evil.'.. George Bernard Shaw
'Better the rudest work that tells a story or records a fact, than the richest without meaning'.. John Ruskin
'We are not just here to manage capitalism but to change society and to define its finer values'.. Tony Benn
'He who sows hurry reaps indigestion.'.. Robert Louis Stevenson
'It is not an arrogant government that chooses priorities, it's an irresponsible government that fails to choose'.. Tony Blair
'If my critics saw me walking over the Thames they would say it was because I couldn't swim'.. Margaret Thatcher
'I will show you fear in a handful of dust.'.. T S Eliot
'Outside every fat man there was an even fatter man trying to close in.'.. Sir Kingsley Amis
'History, a distillation of rumour.'.. Thomas Carlyle
'How paramount the future is to the present when one is surrounded by children.'.. Charles Darwin
'An orgy looks particularly alluring seen through the mists of righteous indignation'.. Malcolm Muggeridge
'O, what a tangled web we weave when first we practise to deceive!'.. Walter Scott
'I'll give you my opinion of the human race in a nutshell... their heart's in the right place, but their head is a thoroughly inefficient organ.'.. Somerset Maugham
'This lady is not for turning.'.. Margaret Thatcher
'We give advice by the bucket, but take it by the grain.'.. Sir Tom Stoppard
'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
'Never the time and the place and the loved one all together!'.. Robert Browning
'Make yourself an honest man, and then you may be sure there is one less rascal in the world'.. Thomas Carlyle
'We are stripped bare by the curse of plenty.'.. Winston Churchill
'You want to be foretold the weather? it is bad enough when it comes without having the misery of knowing about it beforehand'.. Jerome K Jerome
'Not content to have the audience in the palm of his hand, he goes one further and clinches his fist.'.. Kenneth Tynan
'A lot of football success is in the mind. You must believe you are the best and then make sure that you are.'.. Bill Shankly
'The media. It sounds like a convention of spiritualists.'.. Sir Tom Stoppard
'Rock and roll doesn't necessarily mean a band. It doesn't mean a singer, and it doesn't mean a lyric, really. It's that question of trying to be immortal'.. Malcolm McLaren
'Compromise is the best and cheapest lawyer.'.. Robert Louis Stevenson
'If the best man's faults were written on his forehead, he would draw his hat over his eyes.'.. Thomas Gray
'Anyone can tell the truth, but only very few of us can make epigrams.'.. Somerset Maugham
'Life is easy to chronicle, but bewildering to practice.'.. E M Forster
'I think to be oversensitive about cliches is like being oversensitive about table manners.'.. Evelyn Waugh