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Famous British Quotes
'All political power is a trust'.. Charles James Fox
'Fill your paper with the breathings of your heart.'.. William Wordsworth
'The performances you have in your head are always much better than the performances on stage'.. Maggie Smith
'Diplomats were invented simply to waste time.'.. David Lloyd George
'Summer has set in with its usual severity'.. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
'A bachelor's life is a fine breakfast, a flat lunch, and a miserable dinner.'.. Sir Francis Bacon
'Assassination is the extreme form of censorship.'.. George Bernard Shaw
'Writing is the supreme solace.'.. Somerset Maugham
'Every man dies. Not every man really lives.'.. William Wallace
'Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.'.. T S Eliot
'He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches.'.. George Bernard Shaw
'Nothing, like something, happens anywhere.'.. Philip Larkin
'Be just before you are generous.'.. Richard Sheridan
'We are a small country with a large sense of its own importance'.. David Walliams
'All great truths begin as blasphemies.'.. George Bernard Shaw
'The palace is not safe when the cottage is not happy.'.. Benjamin Disraeli
'Doing is the great thing, for if people resolutely do what is right, they come in time to like doing it.'.. John Ruskin
'The whole annual produce of the land and labour of every country...naturally divides itself into three parts; the rent of the land, the wages of labour, and the profits of stock'.. Adam Smith
'Being pregnant is an occupational hazard of being a wife.'.. Queen Victoria
'Never the time and the place and the loved one all together!'.. Robert Browning
'Progress everywhere today does seem to come so very heavily disguised as Chaos'.. Joyce Grenfell
'Be like a duck. Calm on the surface, but always paddling like the dickens underneath.'.. Michael Caine
'I have a fantasy where Ted Turner is elected president but refuses because he doesn't want to give up power.'.. Arthur C Clarke
'Militant feminists, I take my hat off to them. They don't like that'.. Milton Jones
'If my critics saw me walking over the Thames they would say it was because I couldn't swim'.. Margaret Thatcher
'I desire no future that will break the ties with the past.'.. George Eliot
'Silence is the most perfect expression of scorn.'.. George Bernard Shaw
'If you give up drink and sex, you don't live longer. It just seems longer'.. Clement Freud
'Nothing made by brute force lasts.'.. Robert Louis Stevenson
'An idea, like a ghost, must be spoken to a little before it will explain itself.'.. Charles Dickens