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Famous British Quotes
'My character and good name are in my own keeping. Life with disgrace is dreadful. A glorious death is to be envied'.. Horatio Nelson
'A fishing rod is a stick with a hook at one end and a fool at the other'.. Samuel Johnson
'In Italy the whole country is a theatre and the worst actors are on the stage'.. George Bernard Shaw
'What Youth deemed crystal, Age finds out was dew.'.. Robert Browning
'Time is everything; five minutes make the difference between victory and defeat'.. Horatio Nelson
'I think people should be free to engage in any sexual practices they choose; they should draw the line at goats though.'.. Elton John
'It is in men as in soils where sometimes there is a vein of gold which the owner knows not'.. Jonathan Swift
'Liberty is not merely a privilege to be conferred; it is a habit to be acquired'.. David Lloyd George
'When a society has to resort to the lavatory for its humour the writing is on the wall'.. Alan Bennett
'I keep seeing myself in my daughter, and I see my mother in me and in her. Bloody hell.'.. Julie Walters
'If what you have done is unjust, you have not succeeded.'.. Thomas Carlyle
'The one phrase imperative to know in any foreign language is My friend will pay'.. Alan Whicker
'The remedy is worse than the disease.'.. Sir Francis Bacon
'I like work; it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours.'.. Jerome K Jerome
'A healthy attitude is contagious but don't wait to catch it from others. Be a carrier'.. Sir Tom Stoppard
'I have never had problems with drugs. I have had problems with the police....'.. Keith Richards
'A man never tells you anything until you contradict him.'.. George Bernard Shaw
'I count religion but a childish toy, and hold there is no sin but ignorance.'.. Christopher Marlowe
'I refuse to spend my life worrying about what I eat. There is no pleasure worth forgoing just for an extra three years in the geriatric ward.'.. Sir John Mortimer
'At night, when the curtains are drawn and the fire flickers, my books attain a collective dignity.'.. E M Forster
'Be thine own palace, or the world's thy jail.'.. John Donne
'Let us not forget that we can never go farther than we can persuade at least half of the people to go'.. Hugh Gaitskell
'Art is the most passionate orgy within man's grasp.'.. John Donne
'Science must have originated in the feeling that something was wrong.'.. Thomas Carlyle
'Life is what happens while you are busy making other plans.'.. John Lennon
'Humiliation is the beginning of sanctification.'.. John Donne
'Let not England forget her precedence of teaching nations how to live'.. John Milton
'The years between fifty and seventy are the hardest. You are always being asked to do things, and yet you are not decrepit enough to turn them down.'.. George Eliot
'What happens in the heart simply happens.'.. Ted Hughes
'A nation trying to tax itself to prosperity is rather like a man standing in a bucket and trying to lift himself up by the handle'.. Winston Churchill