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Famous British Quotes
'The price of greatness is responsibility.'.. Winston Churchill
'It is the duty of Her Majesty's government neither to flap nor to falter'.. Harold Macmillan
'It is better to have a lion at the head of an army of sheep, than a sheep at the head of an army of lions'.. Daniel Defoe
'There is a wisdom of the head, and a wisdom of the heart.'.. Charles Dickens
'No man is regular in his attendance at the House of Commons until he is married.'.. Benjamin Disraeli
'Humiliation is the beginning of sanctification.'.. John Donne
'If you fell down yesterday, stand up today.'.. H G Wells
'Death is no different whined at than withstood.'.. Philip Larkin
'Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant'.. Robert Louis Stevenson
'When I was young I thought that money was the most important thing in life; now that I am old I know that it is.'.. Oscar Wilde
'Dinner parties are given most in the middle classes by way of revenge'.. William M Thackeray
'I cant type but if I could I would rather play the Harpsichord'.. Peter Ustinov
'I have terrible hearing trouble. I have unwittingly helped to invent and refine a type of music that makes its principal proponents deaf.'.. Pete Townshend
'A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.'.. Douglas Adams
'I never knew a man come to greatness or eminence who lay abed late in the morning.'.. Jonathan Swift
'You never know what is enough unless you know what is more than enough.'.. William Blake
'We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another'.. Jonathan Swift
'I'd the upbringing a nun would envy. Until I was fifteen I was more familiar with Africa than my own body'.. Joe Orton
'Vices are sometimes only virtues carried to excess!'.. Charles Dickens
'Actually american football is a lot like rugby but why do they keep on having all those committee meetings?'.. Winston Churchill
'Man hands on misery to man. It deepens like a coastal shelf. Get out as early as you can, and don't have any kids yourself'.. Philip Larkin
'Sex is a momentary itch, love never lets you go.'.. Sir Kingsley Amis
'It's no use crying over spilt summits.'.. Harold Macmillan
'To destroy is still the strongest instinct in nature.'.. Max Beerbohm
'Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other.'.. Edmund Burke
'Science is the great antidote to the poison of enthusiasm and superstition.'.. Adam Smith
'Life contains but two tragedies. One is not to get your heart's desire; the other is to get it.'.. George Bernard Shaw
'If I played Hamlet, they`d call it a horror film'.. Peter Cushing
'Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely been detected.'.. Oscar Wilde
'Except a living man, there is nothing more wonderful than a book.'.. Charles Kingsley