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Famous British Quotes
'Insecurity, commonly regarded as a weakness in normal people, is the basic tool of the actor's trade'.. Miranda Richardson
'Every blessed one of you feels better for that burst of laughter.'.. Ivor Novello
'Dorchester - A very agreeable town to live in'.. Daniel Defoe
'When I was a nurse my favourite assignment was the anorexia ward. I sometimes had 17 dinners'.. Jo Brand
'England and America are two countries separated by the same language.'.. George Bernard Shaw
'It is with words as with sunbeams - the more they are condensed, the deeper they burn'.. Robert Southey
'Believe there is a great power silently working all things for good, behave yourself and never mind the rest.'.. Beatrix Potter
'The block of granite which was an obstacle in the pathway of the weak, became a stepping-stone in the pathway of the strong.'.. Thomas Carlyle
'As usual, there is a great woman behind every idiot.'.. John Lennon
'You never know what is enough unless you know what is more than enough.'.. William Blake
'Presteigne - Neither in England nor Wales, simply in Radnorshire'.. George Borrow
'Pride the first peer and president of hell.'.. Daniel Defoe
'Better a witty fool than a foolish wit.'.. William Shakespeare
'Without tact you can learn nothing.'.. Benjamin Disraeli
'Everyone ought to bear patiently the results of his own conduct.'.. William Shakespeare
'Every new opinion, at its starting, is precisely in a minority of one.'.. Thomas Carlyle
'A family with the wrong members in control; that, perhaps, is as near as one can come to describing England in a phrase.'.. George Orwell
'I always said God was against art and I still believe it.'.. Edward Elgar
'Everything's got a moral, if only you can find it.'.. Lewis Carroll
'If the best man's faults were written on his forehead, he would draw his hat over his eyes.'.. Thomas Gray
'Power without principle is barren, but principle without power is futile'.. Tony Blair
'Who, being loved, is poor?'.. Oscar Wilde
'Age is a very high price to pay for maturity.'.. Sir Tom Stoppard
'There are strings in the human heart that had better not be vibrated.'.. Charles Dickens
'Although prepared for martyrdom, I preferred that it be postponed.'.. Winston Churchill
'No minister ever stood, or could stand, against public opinion.'.. Robert Peel
'A man must make his opportunity, as oft as find it.'.. Sir Francis Bacon
'No battle is worth fighting except the last one.'.. Enoch Powell
'Divorce is a game played by lawyers.'.. Cary Grant
'Satire is a sort of glass, wherein beholders do generally discover everybody's face but their own.'.. Jonathan Swift