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Famous British Quotes
'Nothing in life is so exhilarating as to be shot at without result.'.. Winston Churchill
'My opinion is that a poet should express the emotion of all the ages and the thought of his own.'.. Thomas Hardy
'A week is a long time in politics.'.. Harold Wilson
'Better the rudest work that tells a story or records a fact, than the richest without meaning'.. John Ruskin
'Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.'.. T S Eliot
'Time and tide wait for no man.'.. Geoffrey Chaucer
'Oh, 'tis love, 'tis love that makes the world go round.'.. Lewis Carroll
'I think the British have the distinction above all other nations of being able to put new wine into old bottles without bursting them'.. Clement Attlee
'Better belly burst than good liquor be lost.'.. Jonathan Swift
'Be just before you are generous.'.. Richard Sheridan
'If you give up drink and sex, you don't live longer. It just seems longer'.. Clement Freud
'The world is a place on which England is to be found'.. GK Chesterton
'You can lead a horse to water, but a pencil must be led.'.. Stan Laurel
'It is the nature of all greatness not to be exact.'.. Edmund Burke
'No advance in wealth, no softening of manners, no reform or revolution has ever brought human equality a millimeter nearer'.. George Orwell
'I will show you fear in a handful of dust.'.. T S Eliot
'You cannot teach old dogs new tricks.'.. Joseph Chamberlain
'Pleasure and freedom from pain, are the only things desirable as ends.'.. John Stuart Mill
'A slavish bondage to parents cramps every faculty of the mind.'.. Mary Shelley
'Our true nationality is mankind.'.. H G Wells
'Pain is no evil, unless it conquers us.'.. Charles Kingsley
'Satire is a sort of glass, wherein beholders do generally discover everybody's face but their own.'.. Jonathan Swift
'I have a fantasy where Ted Turner is elected president but refuses because he doesn't want to give up power.'.. Arthur C Clarke
'Insecurity, commonly regarded as a weakness in normal people, is the basic tool of the actor's trade'.. Miranda Richardson
'Fortitude is the guard and support of the other virtues.'.. John Locke
'A difference of taste in jokes is a great strain on the affections.'.. George Eliot
'There is no such thing as darkness; only a failure to see.'.. Malcolm Muggeridge
'The trouble with political jokes is that they get elected'.. Tim Brooke-Taylor
'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
'Friendship is Love without his wings'.. Lord Byron