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Famous British Quotes
'Remember that the most beautiful things in the world are the most useless; peacocks and lilies for instance'.. John Ruskin
'To have news value is to have a tin can tied to one's tail.'.. T E Lawrence
'If we open a quarrel between past and present, we shall find that we have lost the future'.. Winston Churchill
'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
'At night, when the curtains are drawn and the fire flickers, my books attain a collective dignity.'.. E M Forster
'Take away love and our earth is a tomb.'.. Robert Browning
'There is a woman at the beginning of all great things.'.. Alan Bleasdale
'All slang is metaphor, and all metaphor is poetry.'.. GK Chesterton
'The purpose of getting power is to be able to give it away'.. Aneurin Bevan
'I am a lover of truth, a worshipper of freedom, a celebrant at the altar of language and purity and tolerance.'.. Stephen Fry
'I wouldn't dream of taking life as it comes. It may not be colour co-ordinated'.. Julian Clary
'I am a part of all that I have seen.'.. Alfred Lord Tennyson
'It is the nature of all greatness not to be exact.'.. Edmund Burke
'Don't accept the old order. Get rid of it.'.. John Lydon (Johnny Rotten)
'People are wrong when they say opera is not what it used to be. It is what it used to be. That is what's wrong with it.'.. Noel Coward
'If you tell the truth, you have infinite power supporting you; but if not, you have infinite power against you'.. Charles George Gordon
'We wander for distraction, but we travel for fulfillment.'.. Hilaire Belloc
'A tavern is a place where madness is sold by the bottle.'.. Jonathan Swift
'I can always tell when the mother in law's coming to stay; the mice throw themselves on the traps.'.. Les Dawson
'All money is a matter of belief.'.. Adam Smith
'The more I see the less I know for sure.'.. John Lennon
'Breed is stronger than pasture.'.. George Eliot
'All great and beautiful work has come of first gazing without shrinking into the darkness'.. John Ruskin
'I don't mind how much my Ministers talk, so long as they do what I say'.. Margaret Thatcher
'Broadly speaking, the short words are the best, and the old words best of all.'.. Winston Churchill
'Politics is the ability to foretell what is going to happen tomorrow, next week, next month and next year. And to have the ability afterwards to explain why it didn't happen.'.. Winston Churchill
'At fifty everyone has the face he deserves.'.. George Orwell
'I left England when I was 4 when I discovered that I couldnt be king'.. Bob Hope
'Do not try to live forever. You will not succeed.'.. George Bernard Shaw
'My favourite musical instrument is the telephone'.. Quentin Crisp