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Famous British Quotes
'Liberty is not merely a privilege to be conferred; it is a habit to be acquired'.. David Lloyd George
'Adapt or perish, now as ever, is nature's inexorable imperative.'.. H G Wells
'The Welsh are all actors. It's only the bad ones who become professional.'.. Richard Burton
'Better a witty fool than a foolish wit.'.. William Shakespeare
'Though lovers be lost love shall not.'.. Dylan Thomas
'I believe in getting in to hot water. It keeps you clean'.. GK Chesterton
'Patriots always talk of dying for their country but never of killing for their country'.. Bertrand Russell
'The real tragedy of the poor is the poverty of their aspirations'.. Adam Smith
'You cannot antagonize and influence at the same time.'.. John Knox
'No minister ever stood, or could stand, against public opinion.'.. Robert Peel
'History shows that the majority of people that have done anything great have passed their youth in seclusion'.. Thomas Carlyle
'Nothing wilts faster than laurels that have been rested upon.'.. Percy Bysshe Shelley
'There's no use doing a kindness if you do it a day too late.'.. Charles Kingsley
'A neurosis is a secret that you don't know you are keeping.'.. Kenneth Tynan
'We're against beaurocracy and anything ending in a Y'.. John Lydon (Johnny Rotten)
'Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely been detected.'.. Oscar Wilde
'Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children.'.. George Bernard Shaw
'We give advice by the bucket, but take it by the grain.'.. Sir Tom Stoppard
'Saints should always be judged guilty until they are proved innocent'.. George Orwell
'It takes little talent to see what lies under one's nose, a good deal to know in what direction to point that organ.'.. W H Auden
'Anything worth doing is worth overdoing.'.. Mick Jagger
'Man tends to increase at a greater rate than his means of subsistence.'.. Charles Darwin
'Science is but an image of the truth.'.. Sir Francis Bacon
'But there, everything has its drawbacks, as the man said when his mother-in-law died, and they came down upon him for the funeral expenses'.. Jerome K Jerome
'Don't clap too hard - it's a very old building.'.. John Osborne
'I hate the idea of causes, and if I had to choose between betraying my country and betraying my friend, I hope I should have the guts to betray my country'.. E M Forster
'Credulity is the man's weakness, but the child's strength.'.. Charles Lamb
'Asia is not going to be civilized after the methods of the West. There is too much Asia and she is too old.'.. Rudyard Kipling
'Better to be without logic than without feeling.'.. Charlotte Bronte
'Acting is merely the art of keeping a large group of people from coughing.'.. Ralph Richardson