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Famous British Quotes
'No distance of place or lapse of time can lessen the friendship of those who are thoroughly persuaded of each other's worth'.. Robert Southey
'Poverty of course is no disgrace, but it is damned annoying.'.. William Pitt (The Younger)
'Artists aren't really people. And I'm actually 40 per cent papier mache'.. Morrissey
'Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others.'.. Robert Louis Stevenson
'Mountains are the beginning and the end of all natural scenery.'.. John Ruskin
'Loyalty is a fine quality, but in excess it fills political graveyards.'.. Neil Kinnock
'The love of a mother is the veil of a softer light between the heart and the heavenly Father'.. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
'We are not just here to manage capitalism but to change society and to define its finer values'.. Tony Benn
'If you're going to make rubbish, be the best rubbish in it.'.. Richard Burton
'To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.'.. Oscar Wilde
'The more I see the less I know for sure.'.. John Lennon
'All good things which exist are the fruits of originality.'.. John Stuart Mill
'On the road from the City of Skepticism, I had to pass through the Valley of Ambiguity.'.. Adam Smith
'With two small children, I haven't had a wash since 2001 so the chance to go shopping is way down the list. It is something I do intend to get'.. Jo Brand
'Man is the only creature that consumes without producing. He does not give milk, he does not lay eggs, he is too weak to pull the plough, he cannot run fast enough to catch rabbits. Yet he is lord of all the animals'.. George Orwell
'The House of Lords is like a glass of champagne that has stood for five days'.. Clement Attlee
'All autobiography is self-indulgent.'.. Daphne du Maurier
'Don't talk to me about a man's being able to talk sense; everyone can talk sense. Can he talk nonsense?'.. William Pitt (The Younger)
'Do not tell secrets to those whose faith and silence you have not already tested.'.. Elizabeth I
'Necessity has no law.'.. Oliver Cromwell
'Better to reign in hell than serve in heaven'.. John Milton
'It's no use crying over spilt summits.'.. Harold Macmillan
'Insecurity, commonly regarded as a weakness in normal people, is the basic tool of the actor's trade'.. Miranda Richardson
'My Father had a profound influence on me, he was a lunatic.'.. Spike Milligan
'If I had not some strength of will I would make a first class drunkard.'.. Ernest Shackleton
'It is not true that drink changes a man's character. It may reveal it more clearly.'.. John Osborne
'Most people perform well in a crisis - when the spotlight is on them; it's on the Sunday afternoons of this life, when no-one is looking, that the spirit falters.'.. Alan Bennett
'The first condition of progress is the removal of censorship.'.. George Bernard Shaw
'A true friend stabs you in the front.'.. Oscar Wilde
'Arrange whatever pieces come your way.'.. Virginia Woolf