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Famous British Quotes
'A man of great common sense and good taste - meaning thereby a man without originality or moral courage'.. George Bernard Shaw
'Power is not a means, it is an end'.. George Orwell
'Let us reform our schools, and we shall find little reform needed in our prisons'.. John Ruskin
'I have measured out my life with coffee spoons.'.. T S Eliot
'Money is like manure, of very little use except it be spread.'.. Sir Francis Bacon
'A difference of taste in jokes is a great strain on the affections.'.. George Eliot
'The first condition of progress is the removal of censorship.'.. George Bernard Shaw
'We murdered them 0-0.'.. Bill Shankly
'There might be 1 finger on the button, but there will be 15 fingers on the safety catch'.. Harold Macmillan
'An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered'.. GK Chesterton
'Assassination has never changed the history of the world.'.. Benjamin Disraeli
'All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others'.. George Orwell
'The worst enemy of life, freedom and the common decencies is total anarchy; their second worst enemy is total efficiency.'.. Aldous Huxley
'When everyone is somebody, then no one's anybody.'.. W S Gilbert
'I'll give you my opinion of the human race in a nutshell... their heart's in the right place, but their head is a thoroughly inefficient organ.'.. Somerset Maugham
'Pity those who nature abuses; never those who abuse nature.'.. Richard Sheridan
'Justice and judgment lie often a world apart.'.. Emmeline Pankhurst
'Filth and old age, I'm sure you will agree, are powerful wardens upon chastity.'.. Geoffrey Chaucer
'In politics, there is no use looking beyond the next fortnight.'.. Joseph Chamberlain
'Despair is a narcotic. It lulls the mind into indifference.'.. Charlie Chaplin
'First law on holes - when you're in one, stop digging!'.. Denis Healey
'After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.'.. Aldous Huxley
'I've never intended to be controversial but it's very easy to be controversial in pop music because nobody ever is'.. Morrissey
'Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.'.. T S Eliot
'Every war when it comes, or before it comes, is represented not as a war but as an act of self-defense against a homicidal maniac'.. George Orwell
'The courage we desire and prize is not the courage to die decently, but to live manfully'.. Thomas Carlyle
'Books shouldn't be daunting,they should be funny,exciting & wonderful'.. Roald Dahl
'I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many unsigned poems, was a woman'.. Virginia Woolf
'There is no such thing as liberty. You only change one sort of domination for another. All we can do is to choose our master.'.. D H Lawrence
'Life was planned by a committee while the clever ones had popped out to the lav'.. Victoria Wood