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Famous British Quotes
'One of the greatest problems of our time is that many are schooled but few are educated'.. Thomas More
'Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.'.. George Bernard Shaw
'We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another'.. Jonathan Swift
'Dickens is one of those authors who are well worth stealing.'.. George Orwell
'Necessity has no law.'.. Oliver Cromwell
'A friend is a gift you give yourself.'.. Robert Louis Stevenson
'I had lunch with a chess champion the other day. I knew he was a chess champion because it took him 20 minutes to pass the salt.'.. Eric Sykes
'My unhealthy affection for my second daughter has waned. Now I despise all my seven children equally.'.. Evelyn Waugh
'My body has certainly wandered a good deal, but I have an uneasy suspicion that my mind has not wandered enough.'.. Noel Coward
'Bexhill on Sea is a peck on the cheek: Hastings is a lolloping tongue down the throat'.. Jo Brand
'Youth would be an ideal state if it came a little later in life'.. Herbert Henry Asquith
'Exhilaration is that feeling you get just after a great idea hits you, and just before you realize what`s wrong with it.'.. Rex Harrison
'I have a face like the behind of an elephant.'.. Charles Laughton
'The job of the artist is always to deepen the mystery.'.. Francis Bacon
'Golf is a day spent in a round of strenuous idleness.'.. William Wordsworth
'Public opinion is a compound of folly, weakness, prejudice, wrong feeling, right feeling, obstinacy, and newspaper paragraphs'.. Robert Peel
'Errors are not in the art but in the artificers.'.. Isaac Newton
'To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.'.. Oscar Wilde
'Continuous effort - not strength or intelligence - is the key to unlocking our potential'.. Winston Churchill
'At night, when the curtains are drawn and the fire flickers, my books attain a collective dignity.'.. E M Forster
'Nothing made by brute force lasts.'.. Robert Louis Stevenson
'During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act'.. George Orwell
'Full, saturated colours have an emotional significance I want to avoid.'.. Lucien Freud
'The most romantic, if not the most beautiful, place in Scotland'.. Walter Scott
'The land of my fathers. My fathers can have it.'.. Dylan Thomas
'To have news value is to have a tin can tied to one's tail.'.. T E Lawrence
'I have taken more out of alcohol than alcohol has taken out of me.'.. Winston Churchill
'When a true genius appears, you can know him by this sign: that all the dunces are in a confederacy against him.'.. Jonathan Swift
'Justice delayed is justice denied.'.. W E Gladstone
'Be not a slave of words.'.. Thomas Carlyle