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Famous British Quotes
'He who rejects change is the architect of decay. The only human institution which rejects progress is the cemetery'.. Harold Wilson
'God not only plays dice, He also sometimes throws the dice where they cannot be seen.'.. Stephen Hawking
'Things which do not require effort of some sort are seldom worth having'.. Ivor Novello
'It is fatal to be a man or woman pure and simple: one must be a manly woman, or a womanly man.'.. Virginia Woolf
'What's done can't be undone.'.. William Shakespeare
'Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past'.. George Orwell
'A man seldom thinks with more earnestness of anything than he does of his dinner'.. Samuel Johnson
'My opinion is that a poet should express the emotion of all the ages and the thought of his own.'.. Thomas Hardy
'If I have seen further than others, it is by standing upon the shoulders of giants'.. Isaac Newton
'Love seeketh not itself to please, nor for itself hath any care, but for another gives its ease, and builds a Heaven in Hell's despair'.. William Blake
'I am prepared to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter.'.. Winston Churchill
'When I was a nurse my favourite assignment was the anorexia ward. I sometimes had 17 dinners'.. Jo Brand
'The dread of evil is a much more forcible principle of human actions than the prospect of good.'.. John Locke
'From quiet homes and first beginning, out to the undiscovered ends, there's nothing worth the wear of winning, but laughter and the love of friends'.. Hilaire Belloc
'I never had lunch in Brighton without wanting to take a woman to bed in the afternoon'.. John Osborne
'Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.'.. Bertrand Russell
'All the world over, I will back the masses against the classes.'.. W E Gladstone
'No one can read with profit that which he cannot learn to read with pleasure.'.. Thomas Hardy
'Milford Haven - the finest port of Christendom'.. Horatio Nelson
'Asia is not going to be civilized after the methods of the West. There is too much Asia and she is too old.'.. Rudyard Kipling
'So much of left-wing thought is a kind of playing with fire by people who don't even know that fire is hot'.. George Orwell
'There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.'.. Benjamin Disraeli
'Our patience will achieve more than our force.'.. Edmund Burke
'Proud people breed sad sorrows for themselves.'.. Emily Bronte
'Only mediocrity can be trusted to be always at its best.'.. Max Beerbohm
'One man's wage increase is another man's price increase.'.. Harold Wilson
'Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard are sweeter.'.. John Keats
'Ambition may be defined as the willingness to receive any number of hits on the nose'.. Wilfred Owen
'Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.'.. George Bernard Shaw
'Never in the way, and never out of the way.'.. Charles II