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Famous British Quotes
'Only a mediocre person is always at his best.'.. Somerset Maugham
'Authority has every reason to fear the skeptic, for authority can rarely survive in the face of doubt'.. Vita Sackville-West
'I am in that temper that if I were under water I would scarcely kick to come to the top'.. John Keats
'Golf is a day spent in a round of strenuous idleness.'.. William Wordsworth
'Poverty of course is no disgrace, but it is damned annoying.'.. William Pitt (The Younger)
'Never the time and the place and the loved one all together!'.. Robert Browning
'Civilization is the making of civil persons.'.. John Ruskin
'I can take any amount of criticism as long as its unqualifed praise'.. Noel Coward
'Diligence is the mother of good fortune.'.. Benjamin Disraeli
'Squash - that's not exercise, it's flagellation.'.. Noel Coward
'One sees great things from the valley; only small things from the peak.'.. GK Chesterton
'Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few.'.. Winston Churchill
'Time is everything; five minutes make the difference between victory and defeat'.. Horatio Nelson
'The hardest part of sailing round the world? Stepping on dry land'.. Ellen MacArthur
'Every man dies. Not every man really lives.'.. William Wallace
'New opinions are always suspected, and usually opposed, without anyother reason but because they are not already common.'.. John Locke
'America: It's like Britain, only with buttons.'.. Ringo Starr
'I'm spending a year dead for tax reasons.'.. Douglas Adams
'Happiness never lays its finger on its pulse.'.. Adam Smith
'The truth that is suppressed by friends is the readiest weapon of the enemy.'.. Robert Louis Stevenson
'The longer you look at an object, the more abstract it becomes, and, ironically, the more real.'.. Lucien Freud
'There but for the grace of God goes God'.. Winston Churchill
'Assassination has never changed the history of the world.'.. Benjamin Disraeli
'A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.'.. Winston Churchill
'Without tact you can learn nothing.'.. Benjamin Disraeli
'One forgets words as one forgets names. One's vocabulary needs constant fertilizing or it will die.'.. Evelyn Waugh
'I've never intended to be controversial but it's very easy to be controversial in pop music because nobody ever is'.. Morrissey
'The worst enemy of life, freedom and the common decencies is total anarchy; their second worst enemy is total efficiency.'.. Aldous Huxley
'It is the mark of a truly intelligent person to be moved by statistics'.. George Bernard Shaw
'I am acquainted with no immaterial sensuality so delightful as good acting'.. Lord Byron