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Famous British Quotes
'Are you going to come quietly, or do I have to use earplugs?'.. Spike Milligan
'To sentence a man of true genius, to the drudgery of a school is to put a racehorse on a treadmill'.. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
'Adapt or perish, now as ever, is nature's inexorable imperative.'.. H G Wells
'Be thine own palace, or the world's thy jail.'.. John Donne
'Youth smiles without any reason. It is one of its chiefest charms.'.. Thomas Gray
'Vices are sometimes only virtues carried to excess!'.. Charles Dickens
'Look back, and smile on perils past.'.. Walter Scott
'Impropriety is the soul of wit.'.. Somerset Maugham
'Euphemisms are unpleasant truths wearing diplomatic cologne'.. Quentin Crisp
'War is a quarrel between two thieves too cowardly to fight their own battle.'.. Thomas Carlyle
'Idleness, like kisses, to be sweet must be stolen.'.. Jerome K Jerome
'My favourite musical instrument is the telephone'.. Quentin Crisp
'Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another'.. GK Chesterton
'Unlimited power corrupts the possessor.'.. William Pitt (The Younger)
'Do not allow to slip away from you freedoms the people who came before you won with such hard knocks.'.. D H Lawrence
'Life is a progress from want to want, not from enjoyment to enjoyment.'.. Samuel Johnson
'Do not do an immoral thing for moral reasons.'.. Thomas Hardy
'The most conservative man in this world is the British trade unionist when you want to change him.'.. Ernest Bevin
'After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.'.. Aldous Huxley
'Sooner or later everyone sits down to a banquet of consequences.'.. Robert Louis Stevenson
'Several excuses are always less convincing than one.'.. Aldous Huxley
'A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul.'.. George Bernard Shaw
'Endurance is patience concentrated.'.. Thomas Carlyle
'Death destroys a man, but the idea of death saves him.'.. E M Forster
'What worries you, masters you.'.. John Locke
'The human species, according to the best theory I can form of it, is composed of two distinct races, the men who borrow and the men who lend.'.. Charles Lamb
'Every dog must have his day.'.. Jonathan Swift
'A cricketer's life is a life of splendid freedom, healthy effort, endless variety, and delightful good fellowship'.. W G Grace
'War is evil, but it is often the lesser evil.'.. George Orwell
'Better three hours too soon than a minute too late.'.. William Shakespeare