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Famous British Quotes
'He who sows hurry reaps indigestion.'.. Robert Louis Stevenson
'I do not believe that any man fears to be dead, but only the stroke of death'.. Sir Francis Bacon
'When a true genius appears, you can know him by this sign: that all the dunces are in a confederacy against him.'.. Jonathan Swift
'People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf'.. George Orwell
'Look back, and smile on perils past.'.. Walter Scott
'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
'The real character of a man is found out by his amusements.'.. Joshua Reynolds
'There will always be an England even if its in Hollywood'.. Bob Hope
'It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious'.. Oscar Wilde
'I like not only to be loved, but to be told I am loved.'.. George Eliot
'Pleasure is none, if not diversified.'.. John Donne
'If I had not some strength of will I would make a first class drunkard.'.. Ernest Shackleton
'My only regret in life is that I did not drink more champagne'.. John Maynard Keynes
'You only require two things in life: your sanity and your wife.'.. Tony Blair
'The more highly public life is organized the lower does its morality sink'.. E M Forster
'Little children are still the symbol of the eternal marriage between love and duty.'.. George Eliot
'In my opinion, most of the great men of the past were only there for the beer - the wealth, prestige and grandeur that went with the power.'.. A J P Taylor
'O, what a tangled web we weave when first we practise to deceive!'.. Walter Scott
'I'm every bourgeois nightmare - a Cockney with intelligence and a million dollars'.. Michael Caine
'I like the ephemeral thing about theatre, every performance is like a ghost - it's there and then it's gone'.. Maggie Smith
'A dog is for life and not just for christmas so do be careful at the office party'.. Jimmy Carr
'Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together.'.. George Eliot
'Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past'.. George Orwell
'You know the worst thing about oral sex? The view.'.. Maureen Lipman
'It is not true that drink changes a man's character. It may reveal it more clearly.'.. John Osborne
'Loss and possession, death and life are one, There falls no shadow where there shines no sun.'.. Hilaire Belloc
'Football is not a matter of Life and Death - its far more important than that'.. Bill Shankly
'If I have done the public any service, it is due to my patient thought'.. Isaac Newton
'Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.'.. Benjamin Disraeli
'Business today consists in persuading crowds.'.. T S Eliot