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Famous British Quotes
'We may be a small island, but we are not a small people.'.. Edward Heath
'Soul meets soul on lovers' lips.'.. Percy Bysshe Shelley
'Chester pleases my fancy more than any other place I ever saw'.. James Boswell
'Confidence is a plant of slow growth in an aged heart.'.. William Pitt (The Younger)
'If a nation could not prosper without the enjoyment of perfect liberty and perfect justice, there is not in the world a nation which could ever have prospered.'.. Adam Smith
'Every blessed one of you feels better for that burst of laughter.'.. Ivor Novello
'To betray, you must first belong.'.. Kim Philby
'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
'Every time you liberate a woman, you liberate a man'.. Emmeline Pankhurst
'Our greatest glory consists not in never failing, but in rising every time we fall'.. Oliver Goldsmith
'To have news value is to have a tin can tied to one's tail.'.. T E Lawrence
'Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead'.. Oscar Wilde
'Life is like a very short visit to a toyshop between birth and death.'.. Desmond Morris
'I have nothing to declare except my genuis.'.. Oscar Wilde
'I'm spending a year dead for tax reasons.'.. Douglas Adams
'I've never intended to be controversial but it's very easy to be controversial in pop music because nobody ever is'.. Morrissey
'They say eyes clear with age.'.. Philip Larkin
'The worst moment for the atheist is when he is really thankful and has nobody to thank.'.. Dante G Rossetti
'Love is 2 minutes and 52 seconds of squelching noises'.. John Lydon (Johnny Rotten)
'Success - keeping your mind awake and your desire asleep.'.. Walter Scott
'There is a woman at the beginning of all great things.'.. Alan Bleasdale
'Golf is so popular simply because it is the best game in the world at which to be bad.'.. A A Milne
'God gave us memory so that we might have roses in December.'.. J M Barrie
'Literature is strewn with the wreckage of men who have minded beyond reason the opinions of others'.. Virginia Woolf
'Only mediocrity can be trusted to be always at its best.'.. Max Beerbohm
'I never deliberately set out to shock, but when people don't walk out of my plays I think there is something wrong.'.. John Osborne
'Genius not only diagnoses the situation but supplies the answers.'.. Robert Graves
'The land of my fathers. My fathers can have it.'.. Dylan Thomas
'It is only the dull who like practical jokes'.. Oscar Wilde
'Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people'.. Oscar Wilde