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Famous British Quotes
'Being powerful is like being a lady. If you have to tell people you are, you aren't'.. Margaret Thatcher
'Egotism is the source and summary of all faults and miseries.'.. Thomas Carlyle
'When thinking about companions gone, we feel ourselves doubly alone.'.. Walter Scott
'My definition of an intellectual is someone who can listen to the William Tell Overture without thinking of the Lone Ranger.'.. Billy Connolly
'Any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in Mankind; And therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee.'.. John Donne
'A clear and innocent conscience fears nothing.'.. Elizabeth I
'A mother is a mother still, The holiest thing alive.'.. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
'I exist in a state of almost perpetual hysteria.'.. Sting
'The world is a stage, but the play is badly cast.'.. Oscar Wilde
'A politician is a person with whose politics you don't agree; if you agree with him he's a statesman.'.. David Lloyd George
'The greatness of a man's power is the measure of his surrender.'.. William Booth
'All we need to make us really happy is something to be enthusiastic about.'.. Charles Kingsley
'Lawyers, I suppose, were children once.'.. Charles Lamb
'Tolerance is another word for indifference.'.. Somerset Maugham
'Doubt, of whatever kind, can be ended by action alone.'.. Thomas Carlyle
'I then realized my appearance was a bit odd. My right leg was no longer with me. It had caught somewhere in the top of the cockpit as I tried to leave my Spitfire.'.. Douglas Bader
'Could we teach taste or genius by rules, they would be no longer taste and genius'.. Joshua Reynolds
'A woman's guess is much more accurate than a man's certainty.'.. Rudyard Kipling
'I enjoy convalescence. It is the part that makes the illness worth while'.. George Bernard Shaw
'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
'Always live in the ugliest house on the street - then you don't have to look at it.'.. David Hockney
'May not the complaint, that common people are above their station, often take its rise in the fact of uncommon people being below theirs?'.. Charles Dickens
'Soldiers are citizens of death's grey land, drawing no dividend from time's tomorrows'.. Siegfried Sassoon
'I am humble enough to know I have made mistakes but politically astute enough to know that I have forgotten what they are'.. Michael Heseltine
'Music is everybody's possession. It's only publishers who think that people own it.'.. John Lennon
'Heresy is another word for freedom of thought.'.. Graham Greene
'The most important of my discoveries have been suggested to me by my failures'.. Humphry Davy
'My boyfriend had a sex manual but he was dyslexic. I was lying there and he was looking for my vinegar'.. Victoria Wood
'Coincidences are spiritual puns.'.. GK Chesterton
'Necessity has no law.'.. Oliver Cromwell