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Famous British Quotes
'From quiet homes and first beginning, out to the undiscovered ends, there's nothing worth the wear of winning, but laughter and the love of friends'.. Hilaire Belloc
'All meanings, we know, depend on the key of interpretation.'.. George Eliot
'An alcoholic is someone you don't like who drinks as much as you do'.. Dylan Thomas
'The more we study the more we discover our ignorance.'.. Percy Bysshe Shelley
'The highest reward for a person's toil is not what they get for it, but what they become by it'.. John Ruskin
'Knowledge is power.'.. Sir Francis Bacon
'Love is not love that alters when it alteration finds.'.. William Shakespeare
'Old Professors never die, they just lose their faculties.'.. Stephen Fry
'Dunblane Cathedral - I know not of anything so perfect in its simplicity'.. John Ruskin
'There will always be an England even if its in Hollywood'.. Bob Hope
'The remedy is worse than the disease.'.. Sir Francis Bacon
'A perpetual holiday is a good working definition of hell.'.. George Bernard Shaw
'People do not believe lies because they have to, but because they want to'.. Malcolm Muggeridge
'Fashion is what you adopt when you dont know who you are'.. Quentin Crisp
'Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.'.. Samuel Johnson
'If I had not some strength of will I would make a first class drunkard.'.. Ernest Shackleton
'The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter.'.. Winston Churchill
'A puritan is a person who pours righteous indignation into the wrong things'.. GK Chesterton
'History is a race between education and catastrophe.'.. H G Wells
'Health is the state about which medicine has nothing to say.'.. W H Auden
'Is there anything worn under the kilt? No, it's all in perfect working order.'.. Spike Milligan
'What is reading, but silent conversation.'.. Charles Lamb
'Now if the harvest is over, And the world cold, Give me the bonus of laughter, As I lose hold'.. John Betjeman
'Before anything else, preparation is the key to success.'.. Alexander Graham Bell
'If you want to eat well in England, eat three breakfasts.'.. Somerset Maugham
'A faith is something you die for, a doctrine is something you kill for. There is all the difference in the world'.. Tony Benn
'An American monkey, after getting drunk on brandy, would never touch it again, and thus is much wiser than most men.'.. Charles Darwin
'They say an actor is only as good as his parts. Well my parts have done me pretty well'.. Barbara Windsor
'We're against beaurocracy and anything ending in a Y'.. John Lydon (Johnny Rotten)
'Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.'.. George Bernard Shaw