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Famous British Quotes
'Dictators free themselves, but they enslave the people.'.. Charlie Chaplin
'If you don't know where you are going, any road will get you there.'.. Lewis Carroll
'Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard are sweeter.'.. John Keats
'It is a dangerous thing to have instant access to your emotions.'.. Dennis Potter
'Accursed be he that first invented war.'.. Christopher Marlowe
'One of the disadvantages of wine is that it makes a man mistake words for thoughts.'.. Samuel Johnson
'A day wasted on others is not wasted on one's self.'.. Charles Dickens
'It's an honor to be on the same network that gave us 'The Sopranos,' ... They made me an offer I couldn't refuse.'.. Ricky Gervais
'Whichever party is in office, the Treasury is in power.'.. Harold Wilson
'A person who is gifted sees the essential point and leaves the rest as surplus.'.. Thomas Carlyle
'War is evil, but it is often the lesser evil.'.. George Orwell
'For all my education, accomplishments, and so called 'wisdom'... I can't fathom my own heart'.. Michael Caine
'animals have the vowel sounds; man only can utter consonants'.. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
'I'm an optimist, but an optimist who carries a raincoat.'.. Harold Wilson
'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
'Progress is not an illusion, it happens, but it is slow and invariably disappointing'.. George Orwell
'I have measured out my life with coffee spoons.'.. T S Eliot
'No man was ever so completely skilled in the conduct of life, as not to receive new information from age and experience.'.. Jonathan Swift
'You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it.'.. Margaret Thatcher
'A man's as old as he's feeling. A woman as old as she looks.'.. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
'Any subject can be made interesting, and therefore any subject can be made boring'.. Hilaire Belloc
'I have a memory like an elephant. In fact, elephants often consult me.'.. Noel Coward
'Life is what happens while you are busy making other plans.'.. John Lennon
'British People have a socialist mind and a conservative heart'.. Albert Finney
'A healthy attitude is contagious but don't wait to catch it from others. Be a carrier'.. Sir Tom Stoppard
'Consciousness is an end in itself. We torture ourselves getting somewhere, and when we get there it is nowhere, for there is nowhere to get to.'.. D H Lawrence
'The man who can dominate a London dinner-table can dominate the world'.. Oscar Wilde
'Every man dies. Not every man really lives.'.. William Wallace
'A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its autho'.. GK Chesterton
'There is not a more repulsive spectacle than on old man who will not forsake the world, which has already forsaken him.'.. T S Eliot