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Famous British Quotes
'To do a great right do a little wrong.'.. William Shakespeare
'A slavish bondage to parents cramps every faculty of the mind.'.. Mary Shelley
'I don't mind how much my Ministers talk, so long as they do what I say'.. Margaret Thatcher
'We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.'.. Oscar Wilde
'All I ask is the chance to prove that money can't make me happy.'.. Spike Milligan
'For several days after my first book was published, I carried it about in my pocket and took surreptitious peeps at it to make sure the ink had not faded.'.. J M Barrie
'When I repress my emotion my stomach keeps score.'.. Enoch Powell
'There's no use doing a kindness if you do it a day too late.'.. Charles Kingsley
'To know one thing, you must know the opposite.'.. Henry Moore
'Except a living man, there is nothing more wonderful than a book.'.. Charles Kingsley
'Heresies are experiments in man's unsatisfied search for truth.'.. H G Wells
'Our incomes are like our shoes; if too small, they gall and pinch us; but if too large, they cause us to stumble and to trip.'.. John Locke
'Advertising is legalized lying.'.. H G Wells
'Do not tell secrets to those whose faith and silence you have not already tested.'.. Elizabeth I
'The boughs that bear most hang lowest.'.. David Garrick
'I can calculate the motion of heavenly bodies, but not the madness of people'.. Isaac Newton
'Never hold discussions with the monkey when the organ grinder is in the room.'.. Winston Churchill
'The trouble with words is that you never know whose mouths they have been in.'.. Dennis Potter
'We know what we are, but know not what we may be.'.. William Shakespeare
'Any subject can be made interesting, and therefore any subject can be made boring'.. Hilaire Belloc
'Show me the man you honor, and I will know what kind of man you are.'.. Thomas Carlyle
'It's an honor to be on the same network that gave us 'The Sopranos,' ... They made me an offer I couldn't refuse.'.. Ricky Gervais
'I found longer races boring. I found the mile just perfect.'.. Roger Bannister
'Authority has every reason to fear the skeptic, for authority can rarely survive in the face of doubt'.. Vita Sackville-West
'A person who is gifted sees the essential point and leaves the rest as surplus.'.. Thomas Carlyle
'The cruelest lies are often told in silence.'.. Robert Louis Stevenson
'I love criticism just so long as it's unqualified praise.'.. Noel Coward
'Education: the inculcation of the incomprehensible into the indifferent by the incompetent'.. John Maynard Keynes
'A man is in general better pleased when he has a good dinner upon his table, than when his wife talks Greek'.. Samuel Johnson
'Anyone can tell the truth, but only very few of us can make epigrams.'.. Somerset Maugham