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Famous British Quotes
'Don't accept the old order. Get rid of it.'.. John Lydon (Johnny Rotten)
'I enjoy convalescence. It is the part that makes the illness worth while'.. George Bernard Shaw
'Oh, to be in England now that April's there.'.. Robert Browning
'Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point.'.. C S Lewis
'The news is always bad, even when it sounds good'.. Aldous Huxley
'It took me years to understand that words are often as important as experience, because words make experience last'.. William Morris
'Life could be wonderful if people would leave you alone.'.. Charlie Chaplin
'God has two dwellings; one in heaven, and the other in a meek and thankful heart.'.. Izaak Walton
'Poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese'.. GK Chesterton
'No benevolent man ever lost altogether the fruits of his benevolence.'.. Adam Smith
'We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another'.. Jonathan Swift
'Proud people breed sad sorrows for themselves.'.. Emily Bronte
'Capitalism is the astounding belief that the most wickedest of men will do the most wickedest of things for the greatest good of everyone'.. John Maynard Keynes
'Superstition is the religion of feeble minds.'.. Edmund Burke
'Love is blind.'.. Geoffrey Chaucer
'I'm every bourgeois nightmare - a Cockney with intelligence and a million dollars'.. Michael Caine
'Immortality is really desirable, I guess. In terms of images, anyway.'.. Damien Hirst
'England and America are two countries separated by the same language.'.. George Bernard Shaw
'A slavish bondage to parents cramps every faculty of the mind.'.. Mary Shelley
'Oh, the tiger will love you. There is no sincerer love than the love of food.'.. George Bernard Shaw
'Reflect upon your present blessings of which every man has many - not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some.'.. Charles Dickens
'Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.'.. John Locke
'An original idea. That can't be too hard. The library must be full of them.'.. Stephen Fry
'We first make our habits, and then our habits make us.'.. John Dryden
'A team effort is a lot of people doing what I say'.. Michael Winner
'Man's silence is wonderful to listen to.'.. Thomas Hardy
'The one phrase imperative to know in any foreign language is My friend will pay'.. Alan Whicker
'During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act'.. George Orwell
'A man lives by believing something: not by debating and arguing about many things.'.. Thomas Carlyle
'The martyr sacrifices themselves entirely in vain. Or rather not in vain; for they make the narrow narrower'.. Florence Nightingale