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Famous British Quotes
'What is easy is seldom excellent.'.. Samuel Johnson
'I like to give my inhibitions a bath now and then.'.. Oliver Reed
'Who's ever going to write a film in which I get the girl? Me!'.. John Cleese
'In modern business it is not the crook who is to be feared most, it is the honest man who doesn't know what he is doing'.. William Wordsworth
'A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing'.. George Bernard Shaw
'A room hung with pictures is a room hung with thoughts.'.. Joshua Reynolds
'Selfishness is the greatest curse of the human race.'.. W E Gladstone
'There might be 1 finger on the button, but there will be 15 fingers on the safety catch'.. Harold Macmillan
'Let us not forget that we can never go farther than we can persuade at least half of the people to go'.. Hugh Gaitskell
'To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only meaning of life.'.. Robert Louis Stevenson
'One of the greatest problems of our time is that many are schooled but few are educated'.. Thomas More
'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
'The overall impression from the British is that they love France but would prefer it if the French didn't live there'.. Sir John Mortimer
'It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend.'.. John Dryden
'Nothing can be beautiful which is not true.'.. John Ruskin
'Tolerance is another word for indifference.'.. Somerset Maugham
'Men may be popular without being ambitious, but there is hardly an ambitious man who does not try to be popular.'.. Lord North
'The real tragedy of the poor is the poverty of their aspirations'.. Adam Smith
'The past is a great place and I don't want to erase it or to regret it, but I don't want to be its prisoner either'.. Mick Jagger
'An aim in life is the only fortune worth finding.'.. Robert Louis Stevenson
'Power is not a means, it is an end'.. George Orwell
'All movements go too far.'.. Bertrand Russell
'The problem with committing political suicide is that you may live to regret it'.. Winston Churchill
'To betray, you must first belong.'.. Kim Philby
'I am certainly an ought and not a must.'.. E M Forster
'It is easy to answer the ultimate questions - it saves you bothering with the immediate ones.'.. John Osborne
'A loving heart is the truest wisdom.'.. Charles Dickens
'My neighbour asked if he could use my lawnmower and I told him of course he could, so long as he didn't take it out of my garden.'.. Eric Morecambe
'It was fantastic to work in Cornwall partly because my family live there so I was able to do lots of visiting and eat lots of cake.'.. Dawn French
'Soul meets soul on lovers' lips.'.. Percy Bysshe Shelley