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Famous British Quotes
'It is better to have a lion at the head of an army of sheep, than a sheep at the head of an army of lions'.. Daniel Defoe
'Women are for bastmen, beer is for bowlers. God help the all-rounders!'.. Fred Trueman
'The aura given out by a person or object is as much a part of them as their flesh.'.. Lucien Freud
'Youth would be an ideal state if it came a little later in life'.. Herbert Henry Asquith
'To betray, you must first belong.'.. Kim Philby
'Europe was created by history. America was created by philosophy'.. Margaret Thatcher
'Every great person is always being helped by everybody; for their gift is to get good out of all things and all persons.'.. John Ruskin
'Be not a slave of words.'.. Thomas Carlyle
'Without frugality none can be rich, and with it very few would be poor.'.. Samuel Johnson
'Taste every fruit of every tree in the garden at least once. It is an insult to creation not to experience it fully. Temperance is wickedness'.. Stephen Fry
'Possession isn't nine-tenths of the law. It's nine-tenths of the problem'.. John Lennon
'My boyfriend had a sex manual but he was dyslexic. I was lying there and he was looking for my vinegar'.. Victoria Wood
'Life is what happens while you are busy making other plans.'.. John Lennon
'The truth is rarely pure and never simple.'.. Oscar Wilde
'Never the time and the place and the loved one all together!'.. Robert Browning
'Paganism is infectious, more infectious than diphtheria or piety.'.. E M Forster
'England and America are two countries separated by the same language.'.. George Bernard Shaw
'It is an old maxim of mine that when you have excluded the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.'.. Arthur Conan Doyle
'To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only meaning of life.'.. Robert Louis Stevenson
'A man of great common sense and good taste - meaning thereby a man without originality or moral courage'.. George Bernard Shaw
'Riches are a good hand maiden, but a poor mistress.'.. Sir Francis Bacon
'There are no such things as Flowers there are only gladdened Leaves.'.. John Ruskin
'When love and skill work together, expect a masterpiece.'.. John Ruskin
'We forge the chains we wear in life.'.. Charles Dickens
'Consciousness is an end in itself. We torture ourselves getting somewhere, and when we get there it is nowhere, for there is nowhere to get to.'.. D H Lawrence
'Success - keeping your mind awake and your desire asleep.'.. Walter Scott
'No man can be an agnostic who has a sense of humour.'.. E M Forster
'All political power is a trust'.. Charles James Fox
'A diplomat is a man who thinks twice before he says nothing.'.. Edward Heath
'Why buy a book when you can join a library'.. Ricky Gervais