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Famous British Quotes
'A woman uses her intelligence to find reasons to support her intuition'.. GK Chesterton
'I think fidelity is a good idea - now that I cant walk'.. Sir John Mortimer
'God hangs the greatest weights upon the smallest wires.'.. Sir Francis Bacon
'The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none.'.. Thomas Carlyle
'It does not do to leave a live dragon out of your calculations, if you live near him'.. J R R Tolkien
'Have nothing in your house that you do not know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful.'.. William Morris
'Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.'.. Rudyard Kipling
'Lack of money is the root of all evil.'.. George Bernard Shaw
'I hate the word `hate`.'.. Peter Cushing
'For most of history, Anonymous was a woman.'.. Virginia Woolf
'Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.'.. T S Eliot
'The most happy marriage I can picture or imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman'.. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
'I'm not a great one for looking back.'.. Ian Botham
'If you're holding out for universal popularity, I'm afraid you will be in this cabin for a very long time.'.. J K Rowling
'The path of least resistance is the path of the loser.'.. H G Wells
'Europe was created by history. America was created by philosophy'.. Margaret Thatcher
'Genius at first is little more than a great capacity for receiving discipline'.. George Eliot
'Bachelors have consciences, married men have wives.'.. Samuel Johnson
'Talk of the devil, and his horns appear.'.. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
'Great countries are those that produce great people.'.. Benjamin Disraeli
'When hospitality becomes an art it loses its very soul.'.. Max Beerbohm
'Happiness is not a possession to be prized, it is a quality of thought, a state of mind.'.. Daphne du Maurier
'Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested.'.. Sir Francis Bacon
'If you feel that life is one of Gods jokes there is still no reason not to make it a good oke'.. Kenneth Williams
'I think that making love is the best form of exercise.'.. Cary Grant
'I love argument, I love debate. I don't expect anyone just to sit there and agree with me, that's not their job'.. Margaret Thatcher
'Dangerous foreigners begin at Calais and dont stop until you get to Bombay where they play cricket and speak English'.. Clement Attlee
'All political power is a trust'.. Charles James Fox
'Anything is good if it's made of chocolate.'.. Jo Brand
'We wander for distraction, but we travel for fulfillment.'.. Hilaire Belloc