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Famous British Quotes
'Happiness is not a possession to be prized, it is a quality of thought, a state of mind.'.. Daphne du Maurier
'I used to think anyone doing anything weird was weird. Now I know that it is the people that call others weird that are weird'.. Paul McCartney
'Peace rules the day, where reason rules the mind.'.. Wilkie Collins
'That we must all die, we always knew; I wish I had remembered it sooner.'.. Samuel Johnson
'The dread of evil is a much more forcible principle of human actions than the prospect of good.'.. John Locke
'Divorce is a game played by lawyers.'.. Cary Grant
'One sees great things from the valley; only small things from the peak.'.. GK Chesterton
'Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other.'.. Edmund Burke
'Ambition - it is the last infirmity of noble minds.'.. J M Barrie
'I remain just one thing, and one thing only, and that is a clown. It places me on a far higher plane than any politician.'.. Charlie Chaplin
'There is only one class in the community that thinks more about money than the rich, and that is the poor'.. Oscar Wilde
'A woman that does a mans work is just a lazy cow'.. Jo Brand
'It has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all the others that have been tried'.. Winston Churchill
'The stars, that nature hung in heaven, and filled their lamps with everlasting oil, give due light to the misled and lonely traveller'.. John Milton
'One of the disadvantages of wine is that it makes a man mistake words for thoughts.'.. Samuel Johnson
'Maybe this world is another planets hell'.. Aldous Huxley
'It is better to live rich than to die rich.'.. Samuel Johnson
'The trouble with words is that you never know whose mouths they have been in.'.. Dennis Potter
'The world is a republic of mediocrities, and always was.'.. Thomas Carlyle
'I have changed. I no longer keep coal in the bath. I keep it in the bidet'.. John Prescott
'History, a distillation of rumour.'.. Thomas Carlyle
'Never trust a man, who when left alone with a tea cosey... Doesn't try it on.'.. Billy Connolly
'Writing is an antidote for loneliness.'.. Steven Berkoff
'Laughter would be bereaved if snobbery died.'.. Peter Ustinov
'Eating words has never given me indigestion.'.. Winston Churchill
'Pride the first peer and president of hell.'.. Daniel Defoe
'A man who trusts nobody is apt to be the kind of man nobody trusts'.. Harold Macmillan
'This lady is not for turning.'.. Margaret Thatcher
'Now this is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning'.. Winston Churchill
'Laws are like cobwebs, which may catch small flies, but let wasps and hornets break through'.. Jonathan Swift