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Famous British Quotes
'It's not the having, it's the getting.'.. Elizabeth Taylor
'Peace rules the day, where reason rules the mind.'.. Wilkie Collins
'I always said God was against art and I still believe it.'.. Edward Elgar
'Rolf Harris is a difficult man to hate but that shouldnt stop us trying'.. A A Gill
'A woman uses her intelligence to find reasons to support her intuition'.. GK Chesterton
'Football wasn't meant to be run by linesmen and air traffic control.'.. Tommy Docherty
'Filth and old age, I'm sure you will agree, are powerful wardens upon chastity.'.. Geoffrey Chaucer
'Remember that you are an Englishman, and have consequently won first prize in the lottery of life.'.. Cecil Rhodes
'Culture is the process by which a person becomes all that they were created capable of being'.. Thomas Carlyle
'The art galleries of Paris contain the finest collection of frames I ever saw'.. Humphry Davy
'I think people should be free to engage in any sexual practices they choose; they should draw the line at goats though.'.. Elton John
'There's no use doing a kindness if you do it a day too late.'.. Charles Kingsley
'To forget oneself is to be happy.'.. Robert Louis Stevenson
'I think it is the responsibility of a citizen of any country to say what he thinks.'.. Harold Pinter
'Men will pay large sums to whores for telling them they are not bores.'.. W H Auden
'Now this is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning'.. Winston Churchill
'Assassination has never changed the history of the world.'.. Benjamin Disraeli
'No man is useless while he has a friend.'.. Robert Louis Stevenson
'One of the things being in politics has taught me is that men are not a reasoned or reasonable sex'.. Margaret Thatcher
'A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing'.. George Bernard Shaw
'God not only plays dice, He also sometimes throws the dice where they cannot be seen.'.. Stephen Hawking
'An election is a moral horror, as bad as a battle except for the blood; a mud bath for every soul concerned in i'.. George Bernard Shaw
'There is always time for failure.'.. Sir John Mortimer
'It is a mistake to think you can solve any major problems just with potatoes'.. Douglas Adams
'It's no use crying over spilt summits.'.. Harold Macmillan
'Beauty is a short-lived tyranny.'.. George Bernard Shaw
'Big Brother is watching you.'.. George Orwell
'Somebody said to me, 'But the Beatles were anti-materialistic.' That's a huge myth. John and I literally used to sit down and say, 'Now, let's write a swimming pool.''.. Paul McCartney
'Her virtue was that she said what she thought, her vice that what she thought didn't amount to much.'.. Peter Ustinov
'We are stripped bare by the curse of plenty.'.. Winston Churchill