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Famous British Quotes
'Facts are to the mind what food is to the body.'.. Edmund Burke
'Indifference and neglect often do much more damage than outright dislike.'.. J K Rowling
'A man with God is always in the majority.'.. John Knox
'The main object of religion is not to get a man into heaven, but to get heaven into him'.. Thomas Hardy
'Papa, potatoes, poultry, prunes and prism, are all very good words for the lips.'.. Charles Dickens
'Lies are sufficient to breed opinion, and opinion brings on substance'.. Sir Francis Bacon
'The printing press is the greatest weapon in the armoury of the modern commander'.. T E Lawrence
'Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children.'.. George Bernard Shaw
'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
'If you have men who will only come if they know there is a good road, I don't want them. I want men who will come if there is no road at all.'.. David Livingstone
'Think before you speak is criticism's motto; speak before you think, creation's.'.. E M Forster
'We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.'.. Winston Churchill
'A loving heart is the truest wisdom.'.. Charles Dickens
'Do not tell secrets to those whose faith and silence you have not already tested.'.. Elizabeth I
'WH Auden didnt love God, he just fancied him'.. Stephen Spender
'Difficulties are just things to overcome'.. Ernest Shackleton
'He has sat on the fence so long that the iron has entered his soul.'.. David Lloyd George
'My biggest regret in life is saving David Frost from drowning'.. Peter Cook
'My feeling is that if I'm going to write my life story, I ought to have my life first.'.. Dawn French
'I cant type but if I could I would rather play the Harpsichord'.. Peter Ustinov
'Friendship is Love without his wings'.. Lord Byron
'There is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact.'.. Arthur Conan Doyle
'No bird soars too high if he soars with his own wings.'.. William Blake
'America: It's like Britain, only with buttons.'.. Ringo Starr
'A puritan is a person who pours righteous indignation into the wrong things'.. GK Chesterton
'Any truth is better than indefinite doubt.'.. Arthur Conan Doyle
'Almost all crime is due to the repressed desire for aesthetic expression.'.. Evelyn Waugh
'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
'Women are naturally secretive, and they like to do their own secreting.'.. Arthur Conan Doyle
'Even as a junkie I stayed true [to vegetarianism] - 'I shall have heroin, but I shan't have a hamburger.' What a sexy little paradox'.. Russell Brand