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Famous British Quotes
'My neighbour asked if he could use my lawnmower and I told him of course he could, so long as he didn't take it out of my garden.'.. Eric Morecambe
'Music is everybody's possession. It's only publishers who think that people own it.'.. John Lennon
'No battle is worth fighting except the last one.'.. Enoch Powell
'What is written without effort is in general read without pleasure.'.. Samuel Johnson
'I don't pretend to understand the Universe - it's a great deal bigger than I am.'.. Thomas Carlyle
'He who sows hurry reaps indigestion.'.. Robert Louis Stevenson
'Art, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere.'.. GK Chesterton
'Life, as I discovered, holds no more wretched occupation than trying to make the English laugh.'.. Malcolm Muggeridge
'He who praises everybody, praises nobody.'.. Samuel Johnson
'To make us love our country, our country ought to be lovely.'.. Edmund Burke
'Justice and judgment lie often a world apart.'.. Emmeline Pankhurst
'If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear'.. George Orwell
'Power is not a means, it is an end'.. George Orwell
'I love a scary movie. It makes your toes curl and it's not you going through it.'.. Sir Anthony Hopkins
'To an ordinary human being, love means nothing if it does not mean loving some people more than others'.. George Orwell
'Ours is an excessively conscious age. We know so much, we feel so little.'.. D H Lawrence
'If I could I would always work in silence and obscurity, and let my efforts be known by their results.'.. Emily Bronte
'Fashion for the most part is nothing but the ostentation of riches.'.. John Locke
'Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant'.. Robert Louis Stevenson
'Most sets of values would give rise to universes that, although they might be very beautiful, would contain no one able to wonder at that beauty.'.. Stephen Hawking
'I think I am a child. Everything blows my mind.'.. Marc Bolan
'Nothing that is morally wrong can be politically right.'.. W E Gladstone
'Proud people breed sad sorrows for themselves.'.. Emily Bronte
'To cure the British disease with socialism was like trying to cure leukaemia with leeches'.. Margaret Thatcher
'There is a woman at the beginning of all great things.'.. Alan Bleasdale
'When one burns one's bridges, what a very nice fire it makes.'.. Dylan Thomas
'Soldiers are citizens of death's grey land, drawing no dividend from time's tomorrows'.. Siegfried Sassoon
'Enlightened people seldom or never possess a sense of responsibility'.. George Orwell
'The individual is not accountable to society for his actions in so far as these concern the interests of no person but himself.'.. John Stuart Mill
'A painter must think of everything he sees as being there entirely for his own use and pleasure.'.. Lucien Freud