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Famous British Quotes
'Boldness is a mask for fear, however great.'.. John Dryden
'Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people'.. Oscar Wilde
'Dare to be honest and fear no labour.'.. Robert Burns
'The years between fifty and seventy are the hardest. You are always being asked to do things, and yet you are not decrepit enough to turn them down.'.. George Eliot
'I always wanted to be an explorer, but - it seemed I was doomed to be nothing more than a very silly person.'.. Michael Palin
'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
'Books like friends, should be few and well-chosen.'.. Samuel Johnson
'I have often thought what a melancholy world this would be without children, and what an inhuman world without the aged'.. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
'My feeling is that if I'm going to write my life story, I ought to have my life first.'.. Dawn French
'The martyr sacrifices themselves entirely in vain. Or rather not in vain; for they make the narrow narrower'.. Florence Nightingale
'Early in life I had noticed that no event is ever correctly reported in a newspaper'.. George Orwell
'There is no sin but ignorance.'.. Christopher Marlowe
'Something unpleasant is coming when men are anxious to tell the truth'.. Benjamin Disraeli
'A poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language.'.. W H Auden
'It is in men as in soils where sometimes there is a vein of gold which the owner knows not'.. Jonathan Swift
'The longer you look at an object, the more abstract it becomes, and, ironically, the more real.'.. Lucien Freud
'Talking is the disease of age.'.. Ben Jonson
'There is a condition worse than blindness, and that is, seeing something that isn't there.'.. Thomas Hardy
'I never had lunch in Brighton without wanting to take a woman to bed in the afternoon'.. John Osborne
'Everyone seems to fear dying alone. I have never understood this - who wants to die and be polite at the same time'.. Quentin Crisp
'Endurance is patience concentrated.'.. Thomas Carlyle
'Jogging is for people who aren't intelligent enough to watch breakfast TV'.. Victoria Wood
'I am not aware that any community has a right to force another to be civilized.'.. John Stuart Mill
'Responsibilities gravitate to the person who can shoulder them.'.. Sir Tom Stoppard
'Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers.'.. Alfred Lord Tennyson
'I do not believe that any man fears to be dead, but only the stroke of death'.. Sir Francis Bacon
'The avoidance of taxes is the only intellectual pursuit that still carries any reward'.. John Maynard Keynes
'The greatest pleasure I know is to do a good action by stealth and have it found out by accident.'.. Charles Lamb
'It is a mistake to look too far ahead. Only one link of the chain of destiny can be handled at a time'.. Winston Churchill
'Any woman who understands the problems of running a home will be nearer to understanding the problems of running a country'.. Margaret Thatcher