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Famous British Quotes
'That we must all die, we always knew; I wish I had remembered it sooner.'.. Samuel Johnson
'We should have a great fewer disputes in the world if words were taken for what they are, the signs of our ideas only, and not for things themselves.'.. John Locke
'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
'You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it.'.. Margaret Thatcher
'Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.'.. Oscar Wilde
'He who stops being better stops being good.'.. Oliver Cromwell
'Their's not to make reply, Their's not to reason why, Their's but to do and die'.. Alfred Lord Tennyson
'If you are going through hell keep going'.. Winston Churchill
'The creative habit is like a drug. The particular obsession changes, but the excitement, the thrill of your creation lasts'.. Henry Moore
'You don't have to be the Dalai Lama to tell people that life's about change'.. John Cleese
'If I played Hamlet, they`d call it a horror film'.. Peter Cushing
'Everyone who wants to do good to the human race always ends in universal bullying'.. Aldous Huxley
'The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything'.. Oscar Wilde
'I attribute my success to this - I never gave or took any excuse.'.. Florence Nightingale
'Wine is bottled poetry.'.. Robert Louis Stevenson
'I love a scary movie. It makes your toes curl and it's not you going through it.'.. Sir Anthony Hopkins
'I feel sure that no girl would go to the altar if she knew all.'.. Queen Victoria
'For several days after my first book was published, I carried it about in my pocket and took surreptitious peeps at it to make sure the ink had not faded.'.. J M Barrie
'Alcohol is the anesthesia by which we endure the operation of life.'.. George Bernard Shaw
'If you carry your childhood with you, you never become older.'.. Sir Tom Stoppard
'We are all here on earth to help others; what on earth the others are here for I don't know.'.. W H Auden
'I think fidelity is a good idea - now that I cant walk'.. Sir John Mortimer
'Do not let spacious plans for a new world divert your energies from saving what is left of the old'.. Winston Churchill
'Of all acts of man repentance is the most divine. The greatest of all faults is to be conscious of none'.. Thomas Carlyle
'The dictum that truth always triumphs over persecution is one of the pleasant falsehoods which men repeat after one another till they pass into commonplaces, but which all experience refutes.'.. John Stuart Mill
'If there's no money in poetry, neither is there poetry in money.'.. Robert Graves
'If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.'.. Virginia Woolf
'Credit is a system whereby a person who can not pay gets another person who can not pay to guarantee that he can pay.'.. Charles Dickens
'Pity those who nature abuses; never those who abuse nature.'.. Richard Sheridan
'I am told that I talk in shorthand and then smudge it.'.. J R R Tolkien