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Famous British Quotes
'Never forget that only dead fish swim with the stream.'.. Malcolm Muggeridge
'One person with a belief is equal to ninety-nine who have only interests'.. John Stuart Mill
'Charity begins at home, and justice begins next door.'.. Charles Dickens
'She said, 'I'm your biggest fan,' and I said, 'Who are you?' She said, 'Paris Hilton''.. Ricky Gervais
'A precedent embalms a principle.'.. Benjamin Disraeli
'An explanation of cause is not a justification by reason'.. C S Lewis
'The trouble with children is that they are non-returnable'.. Quentin Crisp
'Facts are to the mind what food is to the body.'.. Edmund Burke
'Quality is never an accident. It is always the result of intelligent effort.'.. John Ruskin
'A man lives by believing something: not by debating and arguing about many things.'.. Thomas Carlyle
'The finest landscape is improved by a good Pub in the foreground'.. Samuel Johnson
'Now this is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning'.. Winston Churchill
'Nothing is more obstinate than a fashionable consensus.'.. Margaret Thatcher
'It was such a lovely day I thought it was a pity to get up'.. Somerset Maugham
'I was court-martialled in my absence, and sentenced to death in my absence, so I said they could shoot me in my absence.'.. Thomas Hardy
'An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered'.. GK Chesterton
'No minister ever stood, or could stand, against public opinion.'.. Robert Peel
'When childhood dies, its corpses are called adults.'.. Brian Aldiss
'One of the most important days of my life was when I learned to ride a bicycle'.. Michael Palin
'Fathers should be neither seen nor heard. That is the only proper basis for family life'.. Oscar Wilde
'Ours is an excessively conscious age. We know so much, we feel so little.'.. D H Lawrence
'Errors are not in the art but in the artificers.'.. Isaac Newton
'Golf is so popular simply because it is the best game in the world at which to be bad.'.. A A Milne
'I'll always be there because I'm a skilled professional actor. Whether or not I've any talent is beside the point'.. Michael Caine
'God hangs the greatest weights upon the smallest wires.'.. Sir Francis Bacon
'Adventure is not outside man; it is within.'.. George Eliot
'At fifty everyone has the face he deserves.'.. George Orwell
'Knowledge is power.'.. Sir Francis Bacon
'An asylum for the sane would be empty in America.'.. George Bernard Shaw
'You can get an Englishman to do anything simply by whispering in his ear "I know your guilty secret"'.. P G Wodehouse