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Famous British Quotes
'I see music as one language. If one musical form eats its own tail, it dies. So it needs to be a mongrel, it needs to be hybridised.'.. Sting
'Youth would be an ideal state if it came a little later in life'.. Herbert Henry Asquith
'People seldom improve when they have no other model but themselves to copy'.. Oliver Goldsmith
'I am prepared to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter.'.. Winston Churchill
'The trouble with young writers is that they are all in their sixties.'.. Somerset Maugham
'Originality is a thing we constantly clamour for, and constantly quarrel with.'.. Thomas Carlyle
'Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.'.. T S Eliot
'He threatens many that hath injured one'.. Ben Jonson
'One sees great things from the valley; only small things from the peak.'.. GK Chesterton
'The stars, that nature hung in heaven, and filled their lamps with everlasting oil, give due light to the misled and lonely traveller'.. John Milton
'In a completely sane world, madness is the only freedom!'.. James G Ballard
'Ask the right questions if you're to find the right answers.'.. Vanessa Redgrave
'I did not fully understand the dread term 'terminal illness' until I saw Heathrow for myself.'.. Dennis Potter
'In my end is my beginning.'.. Mary, Queen of Scots
'It is justice, not charity, that is wanting in the world.'.. Mary Shelley
'It is widely held that too much wine will dull a man's desire. Indeed it will in a dull man'.. John Osborne
'Fortitude is the marshal of thought, the armor of the will, and the fort of reason.'.. Sir Francis Bacon
'I didn't come into politics to change the Labour Party. I came into politics to change the country'.. Tony Blair
'Few have been taught to any purpose who have not been their own teachers.'.. Joshua Reynolds
'Women want love to be a novel, men a short story.'.. Daphne du Maurier
'Of all the objects of hatred, a woman once loved is the most hateful.'.. Max Beerbohm
'Everything I've ever told you, including this, is a lie'.. Peter Cook
'I love argument, I love debate. I don't expect anyone just to sit there and agree with me, that's not their job'.. Margaret Thatcher
'The Pistols were like my work of art. They were my canvas'.. Malcolm McLaren
'Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons'.. Bertrand Russell
'The very first requirement in a hospital is that it should do the sick no harm.'.. Florence Nightingale
'We drink one another's health and spoil our own.'.. Jerome K Jerome
'Life contains but two tragedies. One is not to get your heart's desire; the other is to get it.'.. George Bernard Shaw
'A man's as old as he's feeling. A woman as old as she looks.'.. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
'Almost every man wastes part of his life attempting to display qualities which he does not possess'.. Samuel Johnson