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Famous British Quotes
'What is written without effort is in general read without pleasure.'.. Samuel Johnson
'One should always play fairly when one has the winning cards.'.. Oscar Wilde
'A public schoolboy must be acceptable at a dance and invaluable in a shipwreck'.. Alan Bennett
'On the whole, human beings want to be good, but not too good, and not quite all the time'.. George Orwell
'If you give up drink and sex, you don't live longer. It just seems longer'.. Clement Freud
'Society has always seemed to demand a little more from human beings than it will get in practice'.. George Orwell
'If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.'.. Virginia Woolf
'It is most unwise for people in love to marry.'.. George Bernard Shaw
'There are two freedoms - the false, where a man is free to do what he likes; the true, where he is free to do what he ought.'.. Charles Kingsley
'Fashion for the most part is nothing but the ostentation of riches.'.. John Locke
'When one burns one's bridges, what a very nice fire it makes.'.. Dylan Thomas
'I became a great runner because if you are a kid in Leeds called Sebastian you have to be'.. Sebastian Coe
'Public opinion polls are rather like children in a garden, digging things up all the time to see how they're growing.'.. J B Priestley
'There will always be an England even if its in Hollywood'.. Bob Hope
'One might well say that mankind is divisible into two great classes: hosts and guests'.. Max Beerbohm
'Be content to remember that those who can make omelettes properly can do nothing else'.. Hilaire Belloc
'A person may cause evil to others not only by his actions but by his inaction'.. John Stuart Mill
'I took on the sins of everybody, of a generation, really'.. Christine Keeler
'To have news value is to have a tin can tied to one's tail.'.. T E Lawrence
'I owe nothing to Women's Lib.'.. Margaret Thatcher
'He threatens many that hath injured one'.. Ben Jonson
'Each man in his way is a treasure.'.. Robert Falcon Scott
'Nothing is too wonderful to be true if it be consistent with the laws of nature'.. Michael Faraday
'Enlightened people seldom or never possess a sense of responsibility'.. George Orwell
'Invention is the talent of youth, as judgment is of age.'.. Jonathan Swift
'If you have men who will only come if they know there is a good road, I don't want them. I want men who will come if there is no road at all.'.. David Livingstone
'People always make war when they say they love peace.'.. D H Lawrence
'Be just before you are generous.'.. Richard Sheridan
'So much of left-wing thought is a kind of playing with fire by people who don't even know that fire is hot'.. George Orwell
'The poetry of the earth is never dead.'.. John Keats