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Famous British Quotes
'The individual is not accountable to society for his actions in so far as these concern the interests of no person but himself.'.. John Stuart Mill
'I believe the first test of a truly great man is in his humility.'.. John Ruskin
'I'm always looking for meaningful one-night stands'.. Dudley Moore
'Soldiers are citizens of death's grey land, drawing no dividend from time's tomorrows'.. Siegfried Sassoon
'One should always be in love. That is the reason one should never marry.'.. Oscar Wilde
'All I need to make a comedy is a park, a policeman and a pretty girl.'.. Charlie Chaplin
'I am afraid we must make the world honest before we can honestly say to our children that honesty is the best policy'.. George Bernard Shaw
'Public opinion is a compound of folly, weakness, prejudice, wrong feeling, right feeling, obstinacy, and newspaper paragraphs'.. Robert Peel
'When I was young I thought that money was the most important thing in life; now that I am old I know that it is.'.. Oscar Wilde
'I am in that temper that if I were under water I would scarcely kick to come to the top'.. John Keats
'A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its autho'.. GK Chesterton
'Justice delayed is justice denied.'.. W E Gladstone
'That we must all die, we always knew; I wish I had remembered it sooner.'.. Samuel Johnson
'The thing about imagination is that by the very act of putting it down, there must be some truth in one's own imagination.'.. Dennis Potter
'I always knew that if all else failed I could become an actor. And all else failed'.. David Niven
'Looking back at all the people I have insulted, I am mildly surprised that I am still allowed to exist.'.. Auberon Waugh
'Although it is not true that all conservatives are stupid people, it is true that most stupid people are conservative'.. John Stuart Mill
'Confidence is a plant of slow growth in an aged heart.'.. William Pitt (The Younger)
'The overall impression from the British is that they love France but would prefer it if the French didn't live there'.. Sir John Mortimer
'Success is a great deodorant.'.. Elizabeth Taylor
'Our greatest glory consists not in never failing, but in rising every time we fall'.. Oliver Goldsmith
'I like Beethoven, especially the poems.'.. Ringo Starr
'You want to be foretold the weather? it is bad enough when it comes without having the misery of knowing about it beforehand'.. Jerome K Jerome
'Eating words has never given me indigestion.'.. Winston Churchill
'Intelligence is the ability to adapt to change.'.. Stephen Hawking
'Pain is no evil, unless it conquers us.'.. Charles Kingsley
'On the whole, human beings want to be good, but not too good, and not quite all the time'.. George Orwell
'The news is always bad, even when it sounds good'.. Aldous Huxley
'A belief is like a guillotine, just as heavy, just as light.'.. David Hockney
'The cruelest lies are often told in silence.'.. Robert Louis Stevenson