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Famous British Quotes
'There seem to me to be very few facts, at least ascertainable facts, in politics'.. Robert Peel
'A work of art is the unique result of a unique temperament.'.. Oscar Wilde
'If I were compelled to choose between living in west bromwich or florence I would make straight for west bromwich'.. J B Priestley
'I was court-martialled in my absence, and sentenced to death in my absence, so I said they could shoot me in my absence.'.. Thomas Hardy
'Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable'.. Sir Francis Bacon
'We drink one another's health and spoil our own.'.. Jerome K Jerome
'There but for the grace of God goes God'.. Winston Churchill
'No man ever became great or good except through many and great mistakes.'.. W E Gladstone
'Bournemouth is one of the few English towns that one can safely call 'her''.. John Betjeman
'Art is the most passionate orgy within man's grasp.'.. John Donne
'Drama is life with the dull bits cut out.'.. Alfred Hitchcock
'The truth is really an ambition which is beyond us.'.. Peter Ustinov
'I think it is the responsibility of a citizen of any country to say what he thinks.'.. Harold Pinter
'I could not live in a country so miserable as to possess no castles'.. John Ruskin
'Life is nothing but a competition to be the criminal rather than the victim.'.. Bertrand Russell
'If you've got a big mouth and you're controversial, you're going to get attention.'.. Simon Cowell
'Liberty must be limited in order to be possessed.'.. Edmund Burke
'Death is the only pure, beautiful conclusion of a great passion.'.. D H Lawrence
'Nature uses as little as possible of anything'.. Alan Bleasdale
'Every man who is high up likes to think that he has done it all himself, and the wife smiles and lets it go at that'.. J M Barrie
'You and I come by road or rail, but economists travel on infrastructure'.. Margaret Thatcher
'I'm always looking for meaningful one-night stands'.. Dudley Moore
'Age is a very high price to pay for maturity.'.. Sir Tom Stoppard
'Cowards die many times before their deaths; the valiant never taste of death but once'.. William Shakespeare
'I always wanted to be an explorer, but - it seemed I was doomed to be nothing more than a very silly person.'.. Michael Palin
'Fame often makes a writer vain, but seldom makes him proud.'.. W H Auden
'If everyone demanded peace instead of another television set, then there'd be peace.'.. John Lennon
'The very first requirement in a hospital is that it should do the sick no harm.'.. Florence Nightingale
'All men have an instinct for conflict: at least, all healthy men.'.. Hilaire Belloc
'In a completely sane world, madness is the only freedom!'.. James G Ballard