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Famous British Quotes
'So many objections may be made to everything, that nothing can overcome them but the necessity of doing something'.. Samuel Johnson
'The profession of a prostitute is the only career in which the maximum income is paid to the newest apprentice'.. William Booth
'Facts are to the mind what food is to the body.'.. Edmund Burke
'We're against beaurocracy and anything ending in a Y'.. John Lydon (Johnny Rotten)
'When one is writing a novel in the first person, one must be that person.'.. Daphne du Maurier
'Islington is about as far as you can get from London without needing yellow-fever jabs'.. A A Gill
'Consequences are unpitying.'.. George Eliot
'Advice is like snow - the softer it falls, the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper in sinks into the mind.'.. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
'I always arrive late at the office, but I make up for it by leaving early.'.. Charles Lamb
'Words easy to be understood do often hit the mark; when high and learned ones do only pierce the air'.. John Bunyan
'You'll find that empty vessels make the most sound'.. John Lydon (Johnny Rotten)
'Death is no different whined at than withstood.'.. Philip Larkin
'Being a woman is a terribly difficult task, since it consists principally in dealing with men.'.. Joseph Conrad
'I spent many years laughing at Harry Secombe's singing until somebody told me that it wasn't a joke.'.. Spike Milligan
'If you feel depressed or let down my advice is to roast a chicken'.. Delia Smith
'Cast is everything.'.. Ridley Scott
'I wanted above all else not to be like my mum.'.. Julie Walters
'I don't mind how much my Ministers talk, so long as they do what I say'.. Margaret Thatcher
'Come forth into the light of things, let nature be your teacher.'.. William Wordsworth
'It is the test of a good religion whether you can joke about it.'.. GK Chesterton
'In wartime, truth is so precious that she should always be attended by a bodyguard of lies.'.. Winston Churchill
'A man's true character comes out when he's drunk.'.. Charlie Chaplin
'The news is always bad, even when it sounds good'.. Aldous Huxley
'There are strings in the human heart that had better not be vibrated.'.. Charles Dickens
'Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.'.. John Locke
'Be not afraid of greatness: some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them'.. William Shakespeare
'All the war-propaganda, all the screaming and lies and hatred, comes invariably from people who are not fighting'.. George Orwell
'It does not do to leave a live dragon out of your calculations, if you live near him'.. J R R Tolkien
'People are wrong when they say opera is not what it used to be. It is what it used to be. That is what's wrong with it.'.. Noel Coward
'You cannot antagonize and influence at the same time.'.. John Knox