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Famous British Quotes
'No one does anything from a single motive.'.. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
'In our time political speech and writing are largely the defense of the indefensible'.. George Orwell
'Failures are finger posts on the road to achievement.'.. C S Lewis
'Remember the dignity of your womanhood. Do not appeal, do not beg, do not grovel. Take courage, join hands, stand beside us, fight with us.'.. Christabel Pankhurst
'I took on the sins of everybody, of a generation, really'.. Christine Keeler
'People say you should read your criticism because it will make you a better person but it doesn't. It just makes you a sad bitter old showbiz nightmare'.. Jo Brand
'The difference between tax avoidance and tax evasion is the thickness of a prison wall.'.. Denis Healey
'All political power is a trust'.. Charles James Fox
'Good and bad men are less than they seem.'.. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
'As a woman I have no country. As a woman my country is the whole world.'.. Virginia Woolf
'My dreams were all my own; I accounted for them to nobody; they were my refuge when annoyed - my dearest pleasure when free'.. Mary Shelley
'For my part, I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move.'.. Robert Louis Stevenson
'He was a bold man that first eat on oyster.'.. Jonathan Swift
'A man's friendships are one of the best measures of his worth.'.. Charles Darwin
'You had better have one King than five hundred'.. Charles II
'The path of least resistance is the path of the loser.'.. H G Wells
'A friend is a gift you give yourself.'.. Robert Louis Stevenson
'First law on holes - when you're in one, stop digging!'.. Denis Healey
'What loneliness is more lonely than distrust?'.. George Eliot
'A man of great common sense and good taste - meaning thereby a man without originality or moral courage'.. George Bernard Shaw
'I'm a holy man minus the holiness.'.. E M Forster
'It is easy to answer the ultimate questions - it saves you bothering with the immediate ones.'.. John Osborne
'The person that loses their conscience has nothing left worth keeping.'.. Izaak Walton
'You should not take a fellow eight years old and make him swear to never kiss the girls'.. Robert Browning
'Old Professors never die, they just lose their faculties.'.. Stephen Fry
'The world is like a grand staircase, some are going up and some are going down.'.. Samuel Johnson
'Men! The only animal in the world to fear.'.. D H Lawrence
'The martyr sacrifices themselves entirely in vain. Or rather not in vain; for they make the narrow narrower'.. Florence Nightingale
'People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf'.. George Orwell
'Subdue your appetites, my dears, and you've conquered human nature.'.. Charles Dickens