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Famous British Quotes
'The difference between Socrates and Jesus? The great conscious and the immeasurably great unconscious'.. Thomas Carlyle
'England and America are two countries separated by the same language.'.. George Bernard Shaw
'I'm a hero with coward's legs.'.. Spike Milligan
'To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only meaning of life.'.. Robert Louis Stevenson
'For all my education, accomplishments, and so called 'wisdom'... I can't fathom my own heart'.. Michael Caine
'The thing about imagination is that by the very act of putting it down, there must be some truth in one's own imagination.'.. Dennis Potter
'Kings govern by means of popular assemblies only when they cannot do without them'.. Charles James Fox
'If slaughterhouses had glass walls, everyone would be a vegetarian.'.. Paul McCartney
'Soul meets soul on lovers' lips.'.. Percy Bysshe Shelley
'Proof that God has an odd sense of humour - after inventing Haute Cuisine he gave it to the French'.. A A Gill
'I've only slept with men I've been married to. How many women can make that claim?'.. Elizabeth Taylor
'A room hung with pictures is a room hung with thoughts.'.. Joshua Reynolds
'Love is the last relay and ultimate outposts of eternity.'.. Dante G Rossetti
'Life appears to me too short to be spent in nursing animosity, or registering wrongs.'.. Charlotte Bronte
'Why buy a book when you can join a library'.. Ricky Gervais
'Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.'.. George Bernard Shaw
'I've sometimes thought of marrying - and then I've thought again.'.. Noel Coward
'We are a small country with a large sense of its own importance'.. David Walliams
'I have a great mind to believe in Christianity for the mere pleasure of fancying I may be damned'.. Lord Byron
'Life is made of ever so many partings welded together.'.. Charles Dickens
'It's all right letting yourself go, as long as you can get yourself back.'.. Mick Jagger
'It's a poor sort of memory that only works backwards.'.. Lewis Carroll
'We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience'.. George Bernard Shaw
'To cure the British disease with socialism was like trying to cure leukaemia with leeches'.. Margaret Thatcher
'Childhood is measured out by sounds and smells and sights, before the dark hour of reason grows.'.. John Betjeman
'Good and bad men are less than they seem.'.. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
'Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few.'.. Winston Churchill
'Rock and roll doesn't necessarily mean a band. It doesn't mean a singer, and it doesn't mean a lyric, really. It's that question of trying to be immortal'.. Malcolm McLaren
'Twin-sister of Religion, Selfishness.'.. Percy Bysshe Shelley
'The dictum that truth always triumphs over persecution is one of the pleasant falsehoods which men repeat after one another till they pass into commonplaces, but which all experience refutes.'.. John Stuart Mill