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Famous British Quotes
'There is no real wealth but the labor of man.'.. Percy Bysshe Shelley
'A fashion is nothing but an induced epidemic.'.. George Bernard Shaw
'Europe was created by history. America was created by philosophy'.. Margaret Thatcher
'A man who trusts nobody is apt to be the kind of man nobody trusts'.. Harold Macmillan
'A happy family is but an earlier heaven.'.. George Bernard Shaw
'No ghost was ever seen by two pairs of eyes.'.. Thomas Carlyle
'Asia is not going to be civilized after the methods of the West. There is too much Asia and she is too old.'.. Rudyard Kipling
'We have forty million reasons for failure, but not a single excuse.'.. Rudyard Kipling
'Grab a chance and you won't be sorry for a might-have-been.'.. Arthur Ransome
'A fanatic is a man who consciously over compensates a secret doubt.'.. Aldous Huxley
'Childhood is measured out by sounds and smells and sights, before the dark hour of reason grows.'.. John Betjeman
'There are no such things as Flowers there are only gladdened Leaves.'.. John Ruskin
'By gnawing through a dike, even a rat may drown a nation.'.. Edmund Burke
'Nothing can be beautiful which is not true.'.. John Ruskin
'You will find in politics that you are much exposed to the attribution of false motive. Never complain and never explain'.. Stanley Baldwin
'The surest way to fail is not to determine to succeed.'.. Richard Sheridan
'Everyone who wants to do good to the human race always ends in universal bullying'.. Aldous Huxley
'There's only room for one bigmouth in my organisation, and that's me.'.. Alan Sugar
'The media. It sounds like a convention of spiritualists.'.. Sir Tom Stoppard
'There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.'.. Benjamin Disraeli
'Life was planned by a committee while the clever ones had popped out to the lav'.. Victoria Wood
'Man hands on misery to man. It deepens like a coastal shelf. Get out as early as you can, and don't have any kids yourself'.. Philip Larkin
'If thou woudst view fair Melrose aright, go visit it by the pale moonlight'.. Walter Scott
'My wife is a sex object - every time I ask for sex, she objects.'.. Les Dawson
'I've never intended to be controversial but it's very easy to be controversial in pop music because nobody ever is'.. Morrissey
'There are two freedoms - the false, where a man is free to do what he likes; the true, where he is free to do what he ought.'.. Charles Kingsley
'The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you can see.'.. Winston Churchill
'To know one thing, you must know the opposite.'.. Henry Moore
'The best research for playing a drunk is being a British actor for 20 years'.. Michael Caine
'A person is a fool to become a writer. His only compensation is absolute freedom'.. Roald Dahl