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Famous British Quotes
'When I was a nurse my favourite assignment was the anorexia ward. I sometimes had 17 dinners'.. Jo Brand
'Ask the right questions if you're to find the right answers.'.. Vanessa Redgrave
'What Youth deemed crystal, Age finds out was dew.'.. Robert Browning
'When one is writing a novel in the first person, one must be that person.'.. Daphne du Maurier
'I enjoy convalescence. It is the part that makes the illness worth while'.. George Bernard Shaw
'Greenwich possesses the best air, the best prospect and the best conversation'.. Daniel Defoe
'A room without books is like a body without a soul.'.. GK Chesterton
'Money can't buy love, but it improves your bargaining position.'.. Christopher Marlowe
'You can always count on Americans to do the right thing - after they've tried everything else.'.. Winston Churchill
'I feel monotony and death to be almost the same.'.. Charlotte Bronte
'Absences are a good influence in love and keep it bright and delicate.'.. Robert Louis Stevenson
'Charity begins at home, and justice begins next door.'.. Charles Dickens
'The whole annual produce of the land and labour of every country...naturally divides itself into three parts; the rent of the land, the wages of labour, and the profits of stock'.. Adam Smith
'Go as far as you can see; when you get there you'll be able to see farther.'.. Thomas Carlyle
'The price of greatness is responsibility.'.. Winston Churchill
'I would rather trust a woman's instinct than a man's reason.'.. Stanley Baldwin
'Art can never exist without naked beauty displayed.'.. William Blake
'I know not, sir, whether Bacon wrote the works of Shakespeare, but if he did not, it seems to me that he missed the opportunity of his life.'.. J M Barrie
'A mother is a mother still, The holiest thing alive.'.. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
'My reputation grows with every failure.'.. George Bernard Shaw
'The first condition of progress is the removal of censorship.'.. George Bernard Shaw
'Expectation is the root of all heartache.'.. William Shakespeare
'Broadcasting is really too important to be left to the broadcasters.'.. Tony Benn
'Royalty is the gold teeth in a mouth full of decay'.. John Osborne
'What though youth gave love and roses, Age still leaves us friends and wine.'.. Thomas More
'It's difficult isn't it, when you're in a Mosque and everyone's praying and you really enjoy leapfrog'.. Milton Jones
'Liberal: a power worshipper without power.'.. George Orwell
'One sees great things from the valley; only small things from the peak.'.. GK Chesterton
'Literature is strewn with the wreckage of men who have minded beyond reason the opinions of others'.. Virginia Woolf
'I do not believe in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.'.. Thomas Carlyle