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Famous British Quotes
'Not where I breathe, but where I love, I live; Not where I love, but where I am, I die'.. Robert Southey
'Possession isn't nine-tenths of the law. It's nine-tenths of the problem'.. John Lennon
'No one can read with profit that which he cannot learn to read with pleasure.'.. Thomas Hardy
'To destroy is still the strongest instinct in nature.'.. Max Beerbohm
'How inappropriate to call this planet Earth when it is quite clearly Ocean.'.. Arthur C Clarke
'There are grounds for cautious optimism that we may now be near the end of the search for the ultimate laws of nature.'.. Stephen Hawking
'In our time political speech and writing are largely the defense of the indefensible'.. George Orwell
'Every man at the bottom of his heart believes that he is a born detective.'.. John Buchan
'The hardest part of sailing round the world? Stepping on dry land'.. Ellen MacArthur
'The truth that is suppressed by friends is the readiest weapon of the enemy.'.. Robert Louis Stevenson
'I would die for my country but I could never let my country die for me'.. Neil Kinnock
'I'm every bourgeois nightmare - a Cockney with intelligence and a million dollars'.. Michael Caine
'Difficulties mastered are opportunities won.'.. Winston Churchill
'Egotism is the source and summary of all faults and miseries.'.. Thomas Carlyle
'Beware of the man who does not return your blow: he neither forgives you nor allows you to forgive yourself'.. George Bernard Shaw
'A puritan is a person who pours righteous indignation into the wrong things'.. GK Chesterton
''May my last breath be drawn from a pipe and exhaled in a pun''.. Charles Lamb
'Architecture aims at Eternity.'.. Christopher Wren
'The world is a stage, but the play is badly cast.'.. Oscar Wilde
'Never trust a man, who when left alone with a tea cosey... Doesn't try it on.'.. Billy Connolly
'One should always play fairly when one has the winning cards.'.. Oscar Wilde
'Is there anything worn under the kilt? No, it's all in perfect working order.'.. Spike Milligan
'It is justice, not charity, that is wanting in the world.'.. Mary Shelley
'If I have seen further than others, it is by standing upon the shoulders of giants'.. Isaac Newton
'Autumn wins you best by this its mute appeal to sympathy for its decay.'.. Robert Browning
'That's all drugs and alcohol do, they cut off your emotions in the end.'.. Ringo Starr
'I have terrible hearing trouble. I have unwittingly helped to invent and refine a type of music that makes its principal proponents deaf.'.. Pete Townshend
'You will find in politics that you are much exposed to the attribution of false motive. Never complain and never explain'.. Stanley Baldwin
'We've discovered that the less we do, the more money we make.'.. Eric Idle
'If at first you don’t succeed, failure may be your style'.. Quentin Crisp