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Famous British Quotes
'A young man who isn't a socialist hasn't got a heart; an old man who is a socialist hasn't got a head.'.. David Lloyd George
'May you live every day of your life.'.. Jonathan Swift
'It's a poor sort of memory that only works backwards.'.. Lewis Carroll
'Life is obstinate and clings closest where it is most hated.'.. Mary Shelley
'A man may devote himself to death and destruction to save a nation; but no nation will devote itself to death and destruction to save mankind.'.. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
'Every man desires to live long, but no man wishes to be old.'.. Jonathan Swift
'When I repress my emotion my stomach keeps score.'.. Enoch Powell
'The greatest scholars are not usually the wisest people.'.. Geoffrey Chaucer
'Dorchester - A very agreeable town to live in'.. Daniel Defoe
'Without humility there can be no humanity.'.. John Buchan
'Any woman who understands the problems of running a home will be nearer to understanding the problems of running a country'.. Margaret Thatcher
'TV is as injurious to the soul as fast food is to the body'.. Quentin Crisp
'Do noble things, not dream them all day long.'.. Charles Kingsley
'Love is the last relay and ultimate outposts of eternity.'.. Dante G Rossetti
'So little done, so much to do.'.. Cecil Rhodes
'I would rather trust a woman's instinct than a man's reason.'.. Stanley Baldwin
'Fear is the mother of foresight.'.. Thomas Hardy
'All that I desire to point out is the general principle that life imitates art far more than art imitates life'.. Oscar Wilde
'Genius at first is little more than a great capacity for receiving discipline'.. George Eliot
'The principle of the Gothic architecture is infinity made imaginable.'.. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
'Man is the only creature that consumes without producing. He does not give milk, he does not lay eggs, he is too weak to pull the plough, he cannot run fast enough to catch rabbits. Yet he is lord of all the animals'.. George Orwell
'Life isn't black and white. It's a million gray areas, don't you find?'.. Ridley Scott
'I have no consistency, except in politics; and that probably arises from my indifference to the subject altogether'.. Lord Byron
'All I need to make a comedy is a park, a policeman and a pretty girl.'.. Charlie Chaplin
'If I had been around when Rubens was painting, I would have been revered as a fabulous model. Kate Moss? Well, she would have been the paintbrush.'.. Dawn French
'I spent a lot of money on booze, birds and fast cars. The rest I just squandered.'.. George Best
'I have changed. I no longer keep coal in the bath. I keep it in the bidet'.. John Prescott
'It is not an arrogant government that chooses priorities, it's an irresponsible government that fails to choose'.. Tony Blair
'He that will enjoy the brightness of sunshine, must quit the coolness of the shade'.. Samuel Johnson
'He would make a lovely corpse.'.. Charles Dickens