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Famous British Quotes
'I think it is the responsibility of a citizen of any country to say what he thinks.'.. Harold Pinter
'Politics is the ability to foretell what is going to happen tomorrow, next week, next month and next year. And to have the ability afterwards to explain why it didn't happen.'.. Winston Churchill
'The dread of evil is a much more forcible principle of human actions than the prospect of good.'.. John Locke
'We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.'.. Winston Churchill
'Little children are still the symbol of the eternal marriage between love and duty.'.. George Eliot
'Alas! they had been friends in youth; but whispering tongues can poison truth.'.. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
'Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point.'.. C S Lewis
'Britain is the grit in the European oyster'.. John Major
'All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.'.. Edmund Burke
'Laughter would be bereaved if snobbery died.'.. Peter Ustinov
'I am prepared to go anywhere, provided it be forward.'.. David Livingstone
'Parents wonder why the streams are bitter, when they themselves have poisoned the fountain.'.. John Locke
'Be like a duck. Calm on the surface, but always paddling like the dickens underneath.'.. Michael Caine
'The more we elaborate our means of communication, the less we communicate'.. J B Priestley
'Writers should be read, but neither seen nor heard.'.. Daphne du Maurier
'All I need to make a comedy is a park, a policeman and a pretty girl.'.. Charlie Chaplin
'Science must have originated in the feeling that something was wrong.'.. Thomas Carlyle
'The House of Lords is like a glass of champagne that has stood for five days'.. Clement Attlee
'Without tact you can learn nothing.'.. Benjamin Disraeli
'I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by.'.. Douglas Adams
'Wonders will never cease.'.. David Garrick
'I'll go through life either first class or third, but never in second.'.. Noel Coward
'You should not take a fellow eight years old and make him swear to never kiss the girls'.. Robert Browning
'But there, everything has its drawbacks, as the man said when his mother-in-law died, and they came down upon him for the funeral expenses'.. Jerome K Jerome
'Books like friends, should be few and well-chosen.'.. Samuel Johnson
'Parting is such sweet sorrow.'.. William Shakespeare
'I did not fully understand the dread term 'terminal illness' until I saw Heathrow for myself.'.. Dennis Potter
'Long run is a misleading guide to current affairs. In the long run we are all dead.'.. John Maynard Keynes
'You know, I go to the theatre to be entertained. I don’t want to see plays about rape, sodomy and drug addiction...I can get all that at home'.. Peter Cook
'Sometimes the first duty of intelligent men is the restatement of the obvious'.. George Orwell