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Famous British Quotes
'Be like a duck. Calm on the surface, but always paddling like the dickens underneath.'.. Michael Caine
'I never knew a man come to greatness or eminence who lay abed late in the morning.'.. Jonathan Swift
'When a man is tired of London, he is tired of life; for there is in London all that life can afford.'.. Samuel Johnson
'Fortitude is the guard and support of the other virtues.'.. John Locke
'Henley is the Venice of the South'.. Boris Johnson
'Humankind cannot bear very much reality.'.. T S Eliot
'It is the test of a good religion whether you can joke about it.'.. GK Chesterton
'Filth and old age, I'm sure you will agree, are powerful wardens upon chastity.'.. Geoffrey Chaucer
'If your morals make you dreary, depend on it, they are wrong.'.. Robert Louis Stevenson
'The creative habit is like a drug. The particular obsession changes, but the excitement, the thrill of your creation lasts'.. Henry Moore
'A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject.'.. Winston Churchill
'It is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done; it is a far, far better rest that I go to, than I have ever known.'.. Charles Dickens
'Broadcasting is really too important to be left to the broadcasters.'.. Tony Benn
'Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs.'.. William Shakespeare
'Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.'.. Winston Churchill
'One man's wage increase is another man's price increase.'.. Harold Wilson
'What loneliness is more lonely than distrust?'.. George Eliot
'Death is just life's next big adventure.'.. J K Rowling
'Health is the state about which medicine has nothing to say.'.. W H Auden
'The person that loses their conscience has nothing left worth keeping.'.. Izaak Walton
'Of all acts of man repentance is the most divine. The greatest of all faults is to be conscious of none'.. Thomas Carlyle
'Circumstances are beyond human control, but our conduct is in our own power.'.. Benjamin Disraeli
'God not only plays dice, He also sometimes throws the dice where they cannot be seen.'.. Stephen Hawking
'Who, being loved, is poor?'.. Oscar Wilde
'In politics, guts is all'.. Barbara Castle
'In modern business it is not the crook who is to be feared most, it is the honest man who doesn't know what he is doing'.. William Wordsworth
'But the answer to how to live is to stop thinking about it. And just to live. But you're doing that anyway. However you intellectualise it, you still just live.'.. Damien Hirst
'Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.'.. Benjamin Disraeli
'A young man who isn't a socialist hasn't got a heart; an old man who is a socialist hasn't got a head.'.. David Lloyd George
'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