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Famous British Quotes
'Justice delayed is justice denied.'.. W E Gladstone
'It is an old maxim of mine that when you have excluded the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.'.. Arthur Conan Doyle
'The perfect love affair is one which is conducted entirely by post.'.. George Bernard Shaw
'To be blind is not miserable; not to be able to bear blindness, that is miserable'.. John Milton
'The profession of a prostitute is the only career in which the maximum income is paid to the newest apprentice'.. William Booth
'The block of granite which was an obstacle in the pathway of the weak, became a stepping-stone in the pathway of the strong.'.. Thomas Carlyle
'Its the menopause. I have got my own climate'.. Julie Walters
'At the side of the everlasting why, is a yes, and a yes, and a yes.'.. E M Forster
'Farce is tragedy played at a thousand revolutions per minute.'.. Sir John Mortimer
'Accursed be he that first invented war.'.. Christopher Marlowe
'All money is a matter of belief.'.. Adam Smith
'One cannot really be a Catholic and grown up.'.. George Orwell
'I always arrive late at the office, but I make up for it by leaving early.'.. Charles Lamb
'Sometimes the most positive thing you can be in a boring society is absolutely negative'.. John Lydon (Johnny Rotten)
'I'm a hero with coward's legs.'.. Spike Milligan
'The golden rule is that there are no golden rules.'.. George Bernard Shaw
'Be yourself is about the worst advice you can give to some people.'.. J B Priestley
'To refuse awards is another way of accepting them with more noise than is normal'.. Peter Ustinov
'A truth that's told with bad intent beats all the lies you can invent.'.. William Blake
'If I had not some strength of will I would make a first class drunkard.'.. Ernest Shackleton
'I think it is the responsibility of a citizen of any country to say what he thinks.'.. Harold Pinter
'animals have the vowel sounds; man only can utter consonants'.. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
'So little done, so much to do.'.. Cecil Rhodes
'The finest landscape is improved by a good Pub in the foreground'.. Samuel Johnson
'There is always time for failure.'.. Sir John Mortimer
'You know the worst thing about oral sex? The view.'.. Maureen Lipman
'Man's love is of man's life a part; it is a woman's whole existence. In her first passion, a woman loves her lover, in all the others all she loves is love.'.. Lord Byron
'Time is everything; five minutes make the difference between victory and defeat'.. Horatio Nelson
'A room hung with pictures is a room hung with thoughts.'.. Joshua Reynolds
'Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together.'.. George Eliot