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Famous British Quotes
'I owe nothing to Women's Lib.'.. Margaret Thatcher
'God has two dwellings; one in heaven, and the other in a meek and thankful heart.'.. Izaak Walton
'Remember that you are an Englishman, and have consequently won first prize in the lottery of life.'.. Cecil Rhodes
'Proud people breed sad sorrows for themselves.'.. Emily Bronte
'Comedy, we may say, is society protecting itself - with a smile.'.. J B Priestley
'It is in men as in soils where sometimes there is a vein of gold which the owner knows not'.. Jonathan Swift
'The price of greatness is responsibility.'.. Winston Churchill
'If I were compelled to choose between living in west bromwich or florence I would make straight for west bromwich'.. J B Priestley
'I dont speak French, I dont speak English, I am from Yorkshire'.. Geoffrey Boycott
'To generalize is to be an idiot.'.. William Blake
'Without frugality none can be rich, and with it very few would be poor.'.. Samuel Johnson
'The greatness of a man's power is the measure of his surrender.'.. William Booth
'The snowdrop and primrose our woodlands adorn, and violets bathe in the wet o' the morn.'.. Robert Burns
'Every exit is an entry somewhere else.'.. Sir Tom Stoppard
'God is the perfect poet.'.. Robert Browning
'The important thing is to know how to take all things quietly.'.. Michael Faraday
'Every blessed one of you feels better for that burst of laughter.'.. Ivor Novello
''Tis the last rose of summer Left blooming alone; All her lovely companions Are faded and gone.'.. Thomas More
'Television enables you to be entertained in your home by people you wouldn't have in your home.'.. David Frost
'I like work; it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours.'.. Jerome K Jerome
'As covetousness is the root of all evil, so poverty is the worst of all snares.'.. Daniel Defoe
'A man may devote himself to death and destruction to save a nation; but no nation will devote itself to death and destruction to save mankind.'.. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
'Borrow trouble for yourself, if that's your nature, but don't lend it to your neighbours'.. Rudyard Kipling
'I have often thought what a melancholy world this would be without children, and what an inhuman world without the aged'.. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
'History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.'.. Winston Churchill
'It's no use crying over spilt summits.'.. Harold Macmillan
'Don't talk to me about atrocities in war; all war is an atrocity.'.. Lord Kitchener
'I am a lover of truth, a worshipper of freedom, a celebrant at the altar of language and purity and tolerance.'.. Stephen Fry
'The truth is rarely pure and never simple.'.. Oscar Wilde
'It is obvious that we can no more explain a passion to a person who has never experienced it than we can explain light to the blind.'.. T S Eliot