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Famous British Quotes
'Nothing is so contagious as enthusiasm.'.. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
'It may be the cock that crows, but it is the hen that lays the eggs.'.. Margaret Thatcher
'A poem is true if it hangs together. Information points to something else. A poem points to nothing but itself'.. E M Forster
'The land of my fathers. My fathers can have it.'.. Dylan Thomas
'Evil is unspectacular and always human, and shares our bed and eats at our own table.'.. W H Auden
'I dont believe in God but I am very interested in Her'.. Arthur C Clarke
'Well, my wife and I were married in a toilet - it was a marriage of convenience!'.. Tommy Cooper
'I hate publicity, and I have contrived to survive to be an old woman without it, except in the homey atmosphere of Agricultural Shows'.. Beatrix Potter
'My body has certainly wandered a good deal, but I have an uneasy suspicion that my mind has not wandered enough.'.. Noel Coward
'Music is everybody's possession. It's only publishers who think that people own it.'.. John Lennon
'We wander for distraction, but we travel for fulfillment.'.. Hilaire Belloc
'I exist in a state of almost perpetual hysteria.'.. Sting
'The greatest pleasure I know is to do a good action by stealth and have it found out by accident.'.. Charles Lamb
'Money doesn't mind if we say it's evil, it goes from strength to strength. It's a fiction, an addiction, and a tacit conspiracy'.. Martin Amis
'All money is a matter of belief.'.. Adam Smith
'I have often thought what a melancholy world this would be without children, and what an inhuman world without the aged'.. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
'I think you should take your job seriously, but not yourself - that is the best combination'.. Judi Dench
'No man is an island, entire of itself'.. John Donne
'Those who don't know history are destined to repeat it.'.. Edmund Burke
'It is justice, not charity, that is wanting in the world.'.. Mary Shelley
'Three minutes thought would suffice to sort this out but thought is irksome and three minutes is a long time'.. A E Housman
'Lets face it Football is a game for commoners. As soon as you get a mortgage you start to like Tennis'.. Jonathan Ross
'Nothing is pleasant that is not spiced with variety.'.. Sir Francis Bacon
'Oh, to be in England now that April's there.'.. Robert Browning
'From a drop of water a logician could infer the possibility of an Atlantic or a Niagara without having seen or heard of one or the other.'.. Arthur Conan Doyle
'A man must make his opportunity, as oft as find it.'.. Sir Francis Bacon
'Diplomacy, is the art of letting somebody else have your way.'.. David Frost
'In every American there is an air of incorrigible innocence, which seems to conceal a diabolical cunning.'.. A E Housman
'My whole life is waiting for the questions to which I have prepared answers.'.. Sir Tom Stoppard
'It is the duty of Her Majesty's government neither to flap nor to falter'.. Harold Macmillan