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Famous British Quotes
'Soul meets soul on lovers' lips.'.. Percy Bysshe Shelley
'Animals are my friends... and I don't eat my friends.'.. George Bernard Shaw
'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
'Artists aren't really people. And I'm actually 40 per cent papier mache'.. Morrissey
'Everything government touches turns to crap.'.. Ringo Starr
'My family pride is something inconceivable. I can't help it. I was born sneering.'.. W S Gilbert
'Surround yourself with human beings. They are easier to fight for than principles'.. Ian Fleming
'It's no use crying over spilt summits.'.. Harold Macmillan
'Lack of money is the root of all evil.'.. George Bernard Shaw
'Women have no sympathy and my experience of women is almost as large as Europe'.. Florence Nightingale
'All men have an instinct for conflict: at least, all healthy men.'.. Hilaire Belloc
'I will show you fear in a handful of dust.'.. T S Eliot
'They offered me a handshake of £10,000 to settle amicably. I told them that they would have to be a lot more amicable than that.'.. Tommy Docherty
'My face looks like a wedding-cake left out in the rain.'.. W H Auden
'All I can think of the Middle Ages is that everything must have chafed terribly'.. A A Gill
'No violent extreme endures.'.. Thomas Carlyle
'As usual, there is a great woman behind every idiot.'.. John Lennon
'Everyone who wants to do good to the human race always ends in universal bullying'.. Aldous Huxley
'No one can look back on his schooldays and say with truth that they were altogether unhappy'.. George Orwell
'A clear and innocent conscience fears nothing.'.. Elizabeth I
'War is a quarrel between two thieves too cowardly to fight their own battle.'.. Thomas Carlyle
'The palace is not safe when the cottage is not happy.'.. Benjamin Disraeli
'Without frugality none can be rich, and with it very few would be poor.'.. Samuel Johnson
'What is easy is seldom excellent.'.. Samuel Johnson
'A State without the means of some change is without the means of its conservation.'.. Edmund Burke
'Who overcomes by force, hath overcome but half his foe.'.. John Milton
'There is no comparison between that which is lost by not succeeding and that which is lost by not trying.'.. Sir Francis Bacon
'The silliest woman can manage a clever man; but it needs a very clever woman to manage a fool.'.. Rudyard Kipling
'The important thing is to know how to take all things quietly.'.. Michael Faraday
'Fortune brings in some boats that are not steered.'.. William Shakespeare