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Famous British Quotes
'The palace is not safe when the cottage is not happy.'.. Benjamin Disraeli
'When words are scarce they are seldom spent in vain.'.. William Shakespeare
'I don't ever blink, honestly.'.. Ridley Scott
'There is always time for failure.'.. Sir John Mortimer
'Her virtue was that she said what she thought, her vice that what she thought didn't amount to much.'.. Peter Ustinov
'Idleness, like kisses, to be sweet must be stolen.'.. Jerome K Jerome
'I think to be oversensitive about cliches is like being oversensitive about table manners.'.. Evelyn Waugh
'Age is a very high price to pay for maturity.'.. Sir Tom Stoppard
'I always knew that if all else failed I could become an actor. And all else failed'.. David Niven
'The past is a great place and I don't want to erase it or to regret it, but I don't want to be its prisoner either'.. Mick Jagger
'I think in terms of the day's resolutions, not the years'.'.. Henry Moore
'I am not aware that any community has a right to force another to be civilized.'.. John Stuart Mill
'Nurture your minds with great thoughts. To believe in the heroic makes heroes'.. Benjamin Disraeli
'The true definition of a snob is one who craves for what separates men rather than for what unites them'.. John Buchan
'No man was ever so completely skilled in the conduct of life, as not to receive new information from age and experience.'.. Jonathan Swift
'My body has certainly wandered a good deal, but I have an uneasy suspicion that my mind has not wandered enough.'.. Noel Coward
'Thousands have lived without love, not one without water.'.. W H Auden
'There but for the grace of God goes God'.. Winston Churchill
'Music is the best means we have of digesting time.'.. W H Auden
'I have often thought what a melancholy world this would be without children, and what an inhuman world without the aged'.. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
'To cure the British disease with socialism was like trying to cure leukaemia with leeches'.. Margaret Thatcher
'All good things which exist are the fruits of originality.'.. John Stuart Mill
'If we don't end war, war will end us.'.. H G Wells
'Older women are best, because they always think they may be doing it for the last time.'.. Ian Fleming
'All men are liable to error; and most men are, in many points, by passion or interest, under temptation to it.'.. John Locke
'The difference between tax avoidance and tax evasion is the thickness of a prison wall.'.. Denis Healey
'War would end if the dead could return.'.. Stanley Baldwin
'From the middle of life onward, only he remains vitally alive who is ready to die with life'.. Samuel Johnson
'Do not try to live forever. You will not succeed.'.. George Bernard Shaw
'Time is everything; five minutes make the difference between victory and defeat'.. Horatio Nelson