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Famous British Quotes
'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
'I took on the sins of everybody, of a generation, really'.. Christine Keeler
'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
'If your morals make you dreary, depend on it, they are wrong.'.. Robert Louis Stevenson
'Satire is a sort of glass, wherein beholders do generally discover everybody's face but their own.'.. Jonathan Swift
'Everything's got a moral, if only you can find it.'.. Lewis Carroll
'History is a cyclic poem written by time upon the memories of man'.. Percy Bysshe Shelley
'In my end is my beginning.'.. Mary, Queen of Scots
'Life is wasted on the living'.. Douglas Adams
'I like Beethoven, especially the poems.'.. Ringo Starr
'What is reading, but silent conversation.'.. Charles Lamb
'Nothing wilts faster than laurels that have been rested upon.'.. Percy Bysshe Shelley
'The news is always bad, even when it sounds good'.. Aldous Huxley
'Rules are for the obedience of fools and the guidance of wise men.'.. Douglas Bader
'Genius not only diagnoses the situation but supplies the answers.'.. Robert Graves
'Life is a progress from want to want, not from enjoyment to enjoyment.'.. Samuel Johnson
'Nothing in life is so exhilarating as to be shot at without result.'.. Winston Churchill
'At the side of the everlasting why, is a yes, and a yes, and a yes.'.. E M Forster
'Diligence is the mother of good fortune.'.. Benjamin Disraeli
'Parents are the bones on which children cut their teeth.'.. Peter Ustinov
'I like long walks, especially when they are taken by people who annoy me.'.. Noel Coward
'Patriotism is an instant reaction that fades away when the war starts'.. Mick Jagger
'Sleep, that deplorable curtailment of the joy of life.'.. Virginia Woolf
'Though lovers be lost love shall not.'.. Dylan Thomas
'He is the best physician who is the most ingenious inspirer of hope.'.. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
'The greatest problem about old age is the fear that it may go on too long.'.. A J P Taylor
'Having a great intellect is no path to being happy.'.. Stephen Fry
'Imagination is a poor matter when it has to part company with understanding'.. Thomas Carlyle
'The trouble with words is that you never know whose mouths they have been in.'.. Dennis Potter
'Eating words has never given me indigestion.'.. Winston Churchill