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Famous British Quotes
'Most human beings have an infinite capacity for taking things for granted'.. Aldous Huxley
'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
'Coincidences are spiritual puns.'.. GK Chesterton
'If you want to eat well in England, eat three breakfasts.'.. Somerset Maugham
'The boughs that bear most hang lowest.'.. David Garrick
'Gentlemen, when the enemy is committed to a mistake we must not interrupt him too soon'.. Horatio Nelson
'In politics, guts is all'.. Barbara Castle
'There's no use doing a kindness if you do it a day too late.'.. Charles Kingsley
'There is a pleasure in being mad which none but madmen know.'.. John Dryden
'In politics, there is no use looking beyond the next fortnight.'.. Joseph Chamberlain
'A man never tells you anything until you contradict him.'.. George Bernard Shaw
'An ounce of mother is worth a pound of clergy.'.. Rudyard Kipling
'Never argue; repeat your assertion.'.. Robert Owen
'Though lovers be lost love shall not.'.. Dylan Thomas
'Art has to move you and design does not, unless it's a good design for a bus.'.. David Hockney
'A person may cause evil to others not only by his actions but by his inaction'.. John Stuart Mill
'Idleness, like kisses, to be sweet must be stolen.'.. Jerome K Jerome
'Some people are born to lift heavy weights, some are born to juggle golden balls'.. Max Beerbohm
'Every harlot was a virgin once.'.. William Blake
'My unhealthy affection for my second daughter has waned. Now I despise all my seven children equally.'.. Evelyn Waugh
'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 don't pretend we have all the answers. But the questions are certainly worth thinking about.'.. Arthur C Clarke
'Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested.'.. Sir Francis Bacon
'He travels best that knows when to return.'.. Thomas More
'Surround yourself with human beings. They are easier to fight for than principles'.. Ian Fleming
'Better to reign in hell than serve in heaven'.. John Milton
'I'd sooner be called a successful crook than a destitute monarch.'.. Charlie Chaplin
'The main object of religion is not to get a man into heaven, but to get heaven into him'.. Thomas Hardy
'Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other.'.. Edmund Burke
'It may be the cock that crows, but it is the hen that lays the eggs.'.. Margaret Thatcher