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Famous British Quotes
'Bexhill on Sea is a peck on the cheek whilst Hastings is a lolloping tongue down the throat'.. Jo Brand
'Most people do not pray; they only beg.'.. George Bernard Shaw
'Unlimited power corrupts the possessor.'.. William Pitt (The Younger)
'The light, that lies In woman's eyes, Has been my heart's undoing.'.. Thomas More
'In English villages you turn over a stone and never know what might creep out'.. Agatha Christie
'There might be 1 finger on the button, but there will be 15 fingers on the safety catch'.. Harold Macmillan
'I'll go through life either first class or third, but never in second.'.. Noel Coward
'Men think about women. Women think about what men think about them.'.. Peter Ustinov
'Summer has set in with its usual severity'.. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
'Happiness never lays its finger on its pulse.'.. Adam Smith
'Have a heart that never hardens, and a temper that never tires, and a touch that never hurts.'.. Charles Dickens
'I would like to take you seriously, but to do so would be an affront to your intelligence'.. George Bernard Shaw
'Words easy to be understood do often hit the mark; when high and learned ones do only pierce the air'.. John Bunyan
'Capitalism is the astounding belief that the most wickedest of men will do the most wickedest of things for the greatest good of everyone'.. John Maynard Keynes
'Boredom is the legitimate kingdom of the philanthropic.'.. Virginia Woolf
'Breed is stronger than pasture.'.. George Eliot
'Life could be wonderful if people would leave you alone.'.. Charlie Chaplin
'My dreams were all my own; I accounted for them to nobody; they were my refuge when annoyed - my dearest pleasure when free'.. Mary Shelley
'The silliest woman can manage a clever man; but it needs a very clever woman to manage a fool.'.. Rudyard Kipling
'I am prepared to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter.'.. Winston Churchill
'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 whole annual produce of the land and labour of every country...naturally divides itself into three parts; the rent of the land, the wages of labour, and the profits of stock'.. Adam Smith
'If we don't end war, war will end us.'.. H G Wells
'Youth would be an ideal state if it came a little later in life'.. Herbert Henry Asquith
'Life’s never a postcard of life, is it? It never feels like how you’d want it to look'.. Russell Brand
'You'll find that empty vessels make the most sound'.. John Lydon (Johnny Rotten)
'My goal is simple. It is a complete understanding of the universe, why it is as it is and why it exists at all.'.. Stephen Hawking
'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
'The creative habit is like a drug. The particular obsession changes, but the excitement, the thrill of your creation lasts'.. Henry Moore
'We cast a shadow on something wherever we stand.'.. E M Forster