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Famous British Quotes
'The greatest tragedy in mankind's entire history may be the hijacking of morality by religion'.. Arthur C Clarke
'To generalize is to be an idiot.'.. William Blake
'If all the economists were laid end to end, they'd never reach a conclusion'.. George Bernard Shaw
'Literature is strewn with the wreckage of men who have minded beyond reason the opinions of others'.. Virginia Woolf
'Gentlemen, when the enemy is committed to a mistake we must not interrupt him too soon'.. Horatio Nelson
'Bexhill on Sea is a peck on the cheek: Hastings is a lolloping tongue down the throat'.. Jo Brand
'I would much prefer to be a judge than a coal miner because of the absence of falling coal'.. Peter Cook
'Show me the man you honor, and I will know what kind of man you are.'.. Thomas Carlyle
'In order that people may be happy in their work, these three things are needed: They must be fit for it. They must not do too much of it. And they must have a sense of success in it.'.. John Ruskin
'I count religion but a childish toy, and hold there is no sin but ignorance.'.. Christopher Marlowe
'Ending a sentence with a preposition is something up with which I will not put.'.. Winston Churchill
'I am not young enough to know everything.'.. J M Barrie
'The trouble with British Rail passengers is that they think the railways are being run for their benefit'.. Jeremy Clarkson
'They can't censor the gleam in my eye.'.. Charles Laughton
'So little done, so much to do.'.. Cecil Rhodes
'I think childhood is to everyone a lost land.'.. Dennis Potter
'Football wasn't meant to be run by linesmen and air traffic control.'.. Tommy Docherty
'Militant feminists, I take my hat off to them. They don't like that'.. Milton Jones
'The one phrase imperative to know in any foreign language is My friend will pay'.. Alan Whicker
'You should not take a fellow eight years old and make him swear to never kiss the girls'.. Robert Browning
'Glasgow - The beautifullest little city I have seen in Britain'.. Daniel Defoe
'A verbal art like poetry is reflective; it stops to think. Music is immediate, it goes on to become'.. W H Auden
'Reading without reflecting is like eating without digesting.'.. Edmund Burke
'The printing press is the greatest weapon in the armoury of the modern commander'.. T E Lawrence
'My favorite sexual fantasy is smearing my body in chocolate and being left alone in a room to eat it'.. Jo Brand
'I will show you fear in a handful of dust.'.. T S Eliot
'All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players'.. William Shakespeare
'One way of looking at speech is to say it is a constant stratagem to cover nakedness.'.. Harold Pinter
'Many a man is praised for his reserve and so-called shyness when he is simply too proud to risk making a fool of himself.'.. J B Priestley
'All sympathy not consistent with acknowledged virtue is but disguised selfishness'.. Samuel Taylor Coleridge