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Famous British Quotes
'Once you decide to work for yourself, you never go back to work for somebody else.'.. Alan Sugar
'Several excuses are always less convincing than one.'.. Aldous Huxley
'I have always thought the actions of men the best interpreters of their thoughts.'.. John Locke
'Now if the harvest is over, And the world cold, Give me the bonus of laughter, As I lose hold'.. John Betjeman
'There is no sin but ignorance.'.. Christopher Marlowe
'Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.'.. Winston Churchill
'A man seldom thinks with more earnestness of anything than he does of his dinner'.. Samuel Johnson
'In politics, strangely enough, the best way to play your cards is to lay them face upwards on the table'.. H G Wells
'Honour sinks where commerce long prevails.'.. Oliver Goldsmith
'The purpose of getting power is to be able to give it away'.. Aneurin Bevan
'Wouldn't it be better to have a watertight law designed to catch the guilty, rather than a press release law designed to catch the headlines?'.. William Hague
'Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man'.. Sir Francis Bacon
'I think if Keith Moon was here today and you asked him to recall most of his early life or most of his life, he wouldn't be able to recall it.'.. Roger Daltrey
'Nothing can cure the soul but the senses, just as nothing can cure the senses but the soul.'.. Oscar Wilde
'From a drop of water a logician could infer the possibility of an Atlantic or a Niagara without having seen or heard of one or the other.'.. Arthur Conan Doyle
'The martyr sacrifices themselves entirely in vain. Or rather not in vain; for they make the narrow narrower'.. Florence Nightingale
'At night, when the curtains are drawn and the fire flickers, my books attain a collective dignity.'.. E M Forster
'It's a poor sort of memory that only works backwards.'.. Lewis Carroll
'There is a wisdom of the head, and a wisdom of the heart.'.. Charles Dickens
'All men are liable to error; and most men are, in many points, by passion or interest, under temptation to it.'.. John Locke
'If you don't believe in God, all you have to believe in is decency.'.. Harold Macmillan
'I think fidelity is a good idea - now that I cant walk'.. Sir John Mortimer
'For most of history, Anonymous was a woman.'.. Virginia Woolf
'To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only meaning of life.'.. Robert Louis Stevenson
'It is widely held that too much wine will dull a man's desire. Indeed it will in a dull man'.. John Osborne
'Europe's the mayonnaise, but America supplies the good old lobster.'.. D H Lawrence
'Most human beings have an infinite capacity for taking things for granted'.. Aldous Huxley
'Without tact you can learn nothing.'.. Benjamin Disraeli
'The truth is really an ambition which is beyond us.'.. Peter Ustinov
'The finest eloquence is that which gets things done.'.. David Lloyd George