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Famous British Quotes
'Do not let spacious plans for a new world divert your energies from saving what is left of the old'.. Winston Churchill
'Ability is sexless'.. Christabel Pankhurst
'I don't know why I should have to learn Algebra... I'm never likely to go there.'.. Billy Connolly
'Loss and possession, death and life are one, There falls no shadow where there shines no sun.'.. Hilaire Belloc
'The one great principle of English Law is to make business for itself'.. Charles Dickens
'No ghost was ever seen by two pairs of eyes.'.. Thomas Carlyle
'A dirty joke is a sort of mental rebellion.'.. George Orwell
'Man's love is of man's life a part; it is a woman's whole existence. In her first passion, a woman loves her lover, in all the others all she loves is love.'.. Lord Byron
'All mankind... being all equal and independent, no one ought to harm another in his life, health, liberty or possessions.'.. John Locke
'Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other.'.. Edmund Burke
'Paganism is infectious, more infectious than diphtheria or piety.'.. E M Forster
'Big Brother is watching you.'.. George Orwell
'The only exercise I take is walking behind the coffins of friends who have taken too much exercise'.. Peter O’Toole
'There seem to me to be very few facts, at least ascertainable facts, in politics'.. Robert Peel
'Fortune brings in some boats that are not steered.'.. William Shakespeare
'Be not afraid of greatness: some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them'.. William Shakespeare
'A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men.'.. Roald Dahl
'In the end, everything is a gag.'.. Charlie Chaplin
'It's the one thing I actively don't like: just being recognized'.. Ricky Gervais
'Heresies are experiments in man's unsatisfied search for truth.'.. H G Wells
'I only go out to get me a fresh appetite for being alone.'.. Lord Byron
'The more I study religions the more I am convinced that man never worshipped anything but himself.'.. Richard Burton
'He that gives good advice, builds with one hand; he that gives good counsel and example, builds with both'.. Sir Francis Bacon
'Fortitude is the marshal of thought, the armor of the will, and the fort of reason.'.. Sir Francis Bacon
'animals have the vowel sounds; man only can utter consonants'.. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
'Give the enemy not only a road for flight, but also a means of defending it.'.. Thomas Hardy
'Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few.'.. Winston Churchill
'Its easy to distract fat people. A piece of cake'.. Chris Addison
'I spent many years laughing at Harry Secombe's singing until somebody told me that it wasn't a joke.'.. Spike Milligan
'Oh, 'tis love, 'tis love that makes the world go round.'.. Lewis Carroll