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Famous British Quotes
'Let us not forget that we can never go farther than we can persuade at least half of the people to go'.. Hugh Gaitskell
'Bad humor is an evasion of reality; good humor is an acceptance of it.'.. Malcolm Muggeridge
'A professor is someone who talks in someone else's sleep.'.. W H Auden
'Look twice before you leap.'.. Charlotte Bronte
'The finest landscape is improved by a good Pub in the foreground'.. Samuel Johnson
'Anything worth doing is worth overdoing.'.. Mick Jagger
'There are strings in the human heart that had better not be vibrated.'.. Charles Dickens
'A politician is a person with whose politics you don't agree; if you agree with him he's a statesman.'.. David Lloyd George
'Ask the right questions if you're to find the right answers.'.. Vanessa Redgrave
'We started off trying to set up a small anarchist community, but people wouldn't obey the rules.'.. Alan Bennett
'It is with words as with sunbeams - the more they are condensed, the deeper they burn'.. Robert Southey
'Assassination is the extreme form of censorship.'.. George Bernard Shaw
'I do not believe in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.'.. Thomas Carlyle
'Have you ever noticed? Anybody going slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than you is a maniac'.. Ronnie Corbett
'Everything government touches turns to crap.'.. Ringo Starr
'If thou woudst view fair Melrose aright, go visit it by the pale moonlight'.. Walter Scott
'There can be no liberty unless there is economic liberty.'.. Margaret Thatcher
'A happy family is but an earlier heaven.'.. George Bernard Shaw
'One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making new discoveries'.. A A Milne
'Keep your faith in God, but keep your powder dry.'.. Oliver Cromwell
'Pride the first peer and president of hell.'.. Daniel Defoe
'I dont hold with abroad and think foreigners speak English when our backs are turned'.. Quentin Crisp
'Art is our chief means of breaking bread with the dead.'.. W H Auden
'For all right judgment of any man or things it is useful, nay, essential, to see his good qualities before pronouncing on his bad.'.. Thomas Carlyle
'Quality is never an accident. It is always the result of intelligent effort.'.. John Ruskin
'Life is a progress from want to want, not from enjoyment to enjoyment.'.. Samuel Johnson
'In politics, what begins in fear usually ends in failure.'.. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
'A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject.'.. Winston Churchill
'Chester pleases my fancy more than any other place I ever saw'.. James Boswell
'I never knew a man come to greatness or eminence who lay abed late in the morning.'.. Jonathan Swift