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Famous British Quotes
'An author who speaks about their own books is almost as bad as a mother who speaks about her own children.'.. Benjamin Disraeli
'Laughter would be bereaved if snobbery died.'.. Peter Ustinov
'Melancholy, indeed, should be diverted by every means but drinking.'.. Samuel Johnson
'All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.'.. Edmund Burke
'You don't have to be the Dalai Lama to tell people that life's about change'.. John Cleese
'We murdered them 0-0.'.. Bill Shankly
'As far as I am concerned the paint is the person. I want it to work for me just as flesh does.'.. Lucien Freud
'A woman's guess is much more accurate than a man's certainty.'.. Rudyard Kipling
'The dread of evil is a much more forcible principle of human actions than the prospect of good.'.. John Locke
'There's nothing as ordinary as to try to be extraodinary'.. Noel Coward
'Every man at the bottom of his heart believes that he is a born detective.'.. John Buchan
'When a man is tired of London, he is tired of life; for there is in London all that life can afford.'.. Samuel Johnson
'The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter.'.. Winston Churchill
'Men may be popular without being ambitious, but there is hardly an ambitious man who does not try to be popular.'.. Lord North
'A desperate disease requires a dangerous remedy'.. Guy Fawkes
'If you're holding out for universal popularity, I'm afraid you will be in this cabin for a very long time.'.. J K Rowling
'Now that I know what I want, I don't have to hold on to it quite so much.'.. Lucien Freud
'A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of'.. Jane Austen
'An asylum for the sane would be empty in America.'.. George Bernard Shaw
'Motherhood: All love begins and ends there.'.. Robert Browning
'Few have been taught to any purpose who have not been their own teachers.'.. Joshua Reynolds
'An original idea. That can't be too hard. The library must be full of them.'.. Stephen Fry
'A neurosis is a secret that you don't know you are keeping.'.. Kenneth Tynan
'I always said God was against art and I still believe it.'.. Edward Elgar
'We always have been, we are, and I hope that we always will be detested in France'.. Duke of Wellington
'Quality is never an accident. It is always the result of intelligent effort.'.. John Ruskin
'Our greatest glory consists not in never failing, but in rising every time we fall'.. Oliver Goldsmith
'If you are going through hell keep going'.. Winston Churchill
'Man is the only creature that consumes without producing. He does not give milk, he does not lay eggs, he is too weak to pull the plough, he cannot run fast enough to catch rabbits. Yet he is lord of all the animals'.. George Orwell
'Facts are to the mind what food is to the body.'.. Edmund Burke