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Famous British Quotes
'The most conservative man in this world is the British trade unionist when you want to change him.'.. Ernest Bevin
'It is with words as with sunbeams - the more they are condensed, the deeper they burn'.. Robert Southey
'I think if Keith Moon was here today and you asked him to recall most of his early life or most of his life, he wouldn't be able to recall it.'.. Roger Daltrey
'He that hath knowledge spareth his words.'.. Sir Francis Bacon
'Those who have no hope pass their old age shrouded with an inward gloom'.. Wilfred Owen
'We build too many walls and not enough bridges.'.. Isaac Newton
'God hangs the greatest weights upon the smallest wires.'.. Sir Francis Bacon
'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
'Riches are a good hand maiden, but a poor mistress.'.. Sir Francis Bacon
'Don't talk to me about atrocities in war; all war is an atrocity.'.. Lord Kitchener
'Sometimes the first duty of intelligent men is the restatement of the obvious'.. George Orwell
'New opinions are always suspected, and usually opposed, without anyother reason but because they are not already common.'.. John Locke
'My goal is simple. It is a complete understanding of the universe, why it is as it is and why it exists at all.'.. Stephen Hawking
'In times of joy, all of us wished we possessed a tail we could wag.'.. W H Auden
'I am not a heavy drinker. I can sometimes go for hours without touching a drop.'.. Noel Coward
'Not where I breathe, but where I love, I live; Not where I love, but where I am, I die'.. Robert Southey
'My biggest regret in life is saving David Frost from drowning'.. Peter Cook
'Some folk want their luck buttered'.. Thomas Hardy
'Football wasn't meant to be run by linesmen and air traffic control.'.. Tommy Docherty
'Theoretical principals must sometimes give way for the sake of practical advantages.'.. William Pitt (The Younger)
'Insecurity, commonly regarded as a weakness in normal people, is the basic tool of the actor's trade'.. Miranda Richardson
'For my part, I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move.'.. Robert Louis Stevenson
'Maybe this world is another planets hell'.. Aldous Huxley
'No battle is worth fighting except the last one.'.. Enoch Powell
'Writing is the supreme solace.'.. Somerset Maugham
'The one great principle of English Law is to make business for itself'.. Charles Dickens
'Nothing shows up the difference between the things said or read, so much as the daily experience of it'.. Vita Sackville-West
'Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it.'.. George Bernard Shaw
'You can give without loving, but you can never love without giving.'.. Robert Louis Stevenson
'They say eyes clear with age.'.. Philip Larkin