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Famous British Quotes
'Thieves respect property - they merely wish it to become their property'.. GK Chesterton
'I may be drunk, Miss, but in the morning I will be sober and you will still be ugly.'.. Winston Churchill
'I look upon every day to be lost, in which I do not make a new acquaintance'.. Samuel Johnson
'If there's no money in poetry, neither is there poetry in money.'.. Robert Graves
'Experience teaches only the teachable.'.. Aldous Huxley
'There is nothing constant in this world but inconsistency.'.. Jonathan Swift
'Public opinion polls are rather like children in a garden, digging things up all the time to see how they're growing.'.. J B Priestley
'The remedy is worse than the disease.'.. Sir Francis Bacon
'I am the only man who can say he has been in Take That and at least 2 members of the Spice Girls'.. Robbie Williams
'I wonder if anyone will ever know the emptiness of my life. Personal Diary -- Last entry "Oh what's the point?"'.. Kenneth Williams
'History is written by the victors.'.. Winston Churchill
'All meanings, we know, depend on the key of interpretation.'.. George Eliot
'No man can lose what he never had.'.. Izaak Walton
'In wartime, truth is so precious that she should always be attended by a bodyguard of lies.'.. Winston Churchill
'Don't be afraid to take a big step if one is indicated. You can't cross a chasm in two small jumps.'.. David Lloyd George
'A friend is a gift you give yourself.'.. Robert Louis Stevenson
'If you're holding out for universal popularity, I'm afraid you will be in this cabin for a very long time.'.. J K Rowling
'I have a fantasy where Ted Turner is elected president but refuses because he doesn't want to give up power.'.. Arthur C Clarke
'Life, as I discovered, holds no more wretched occupation than trying to make the English laugh.'.. Malcolm Muggeridge
'There is no comparison between that which is lost by not succeeding and that which is lost by not trying.'.. Sir Francis Bacon
'Conceit is the finest armour a man can wear.'.. Jerome K Jerome
'I would die for my country but I could never let my country die for me'.. Neil Kinnock
'There are hardly two things more peculiarly English than Welsh rarebit and Irish stew'.. GK Chesterton
'To an ordinary human being, love means nothing if it does not mean loving some people more than others'.. George Orwell
'There might be 1 finger on the button, but there will be 15 fingers on the safety catch'.. Harold Macmillan
'Give a little love to a child, and you get a great deal back.'.. John Ruskin
'Broadly speaking, the short words are the best, and the old words best of all.'.. Winston Churchill
'When people tell you how young you look, they are telling you how old you are.'.. Cary Grant
'Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.'.. John Locke
'Parents are the bones on which children cut their teeth.'.. Peter Ustinov