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Famous British Quotes
'Liberty is not merely a privilege to be conferred; it is a habit to be acquired'.. David Lloyd George
'Never argue; repeat your assertion.'.. Robert Owen
'I'm not a great one for looking back.'.. Ian Botham
'Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons'.. Bertrand Russell
'You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.'.. C S Lewis
'Consciousness is an end in itself. We torture ourselves getting somewhere, and when we get there it is nowhere, for there is nowhere to get to.'.. D H Lawrence
'Put three Englishmen on a desert island and within an hour they will have invented a class system'.. Alan Ayckbourn
'There's nothing as ordinary as to try to be extraodinary'.. Noel Coward
'It is a cliche that most cliches are true, but then like most cliches, that cliche is untrue'.. Stephen Fry
'I don't believe that the public knows what it wants; this is the conclusion that I have drawn from my career.'.. Charlie Chaplin
'Money can't buy you happiness but it does bring you a more pleasant form of misery.'.. Spike Milligan
'To most men experience is like the stern lights of a ship, which illuminate only the track it has passed.'.. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
'In politics, strangely enough, the best way to play your cards is to lay them face upwards on the table'.. H G Wells
'It is not reasonable that those who gamble with men's lives should not stake their own.'.. H G Wells
'He would make a lovely corpse.'.. Charles Dickens
'Parents are the bones on which children cut their teeth.'.. Peter Ustinov
'Always laugh when you can. It is cheap medicine.'.. Lord Byron
'An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered'.. GK Chesterton
'Remember the dignity of your womanhood. Do not appeal, do not beg, do not grovel. Take courage, join hands, stand beside us, fight with us.'.. Christabel Pankhurst
'I never knew a man come to greatness or eminence who lay abed late in the morning.'.. Jonathan Swift
'If you tell the truth, you have infinite power supporting you; but if not, you have infinite power against you'.. Charles George Gordon
'Look back, and smile on perils past.'.. Walter Scott
'Think globally, act locally.'.. Paul McCartney
'It may be the cock that crows, but it is the hen that lays the eggs.'.. Margaret Thatcher
'Boredom is the legitimate kingdom of the philanthropic.'.. Virginia Woolf
'Curiosity is one of the most permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous intellect'.. Samuel Johnson
'Men may be popular without being ambitious, but there is hardly an ambitious man who does not try to be popular.'.. Lord North
'I have taken more out of alcohol than alcohol has taken out of me.'.. Winston Churchill
'Better to be without logic than without feeling.'.. Charlotte Bronte
'A woman uses her intelligence to find reasons to support her intuition'.. GK Chesterton