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Famous British Quotes
'Quality is never an accident. It is always the result of intelligent effort.'.. John Ruskin
'We grow small trying to be great.'.. David Hockney
'It is most unwise for people in love to marry.'.. George Bernard Shaw
'He who seeks rest finds boredom. He who seeks work finds rest.'.. Dylan Thomas
'You know the worst thing about oral sex? The view.'.. Maureen Lipman
'Absence - that common cure of love.'.. Lord Byron
'Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead'.. Oscar Wilde
'There is only one religion, though there are a hundred versions of it.'.. George Bernard Shaw
'I have a face like the behind of an elephant.'.. Charles Laughton
'Auld Ayr,whom ne'er a town surpasses for honest men and bonnie lasses'.. Robert Burns
'I don't know half of you half as well as I should like; and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve.'.. J R R Tolkien
'I would like to take you seriously, but to do so would be an affront to your intelligence'.. George Bernard Shaw
'Europe was created by history. America was created by philosophy'.. Margaret Thatcher
'Great bodies of people are never responsible for what they do.'.. Virginia Woolf
'Christianity will go. It will vanish and shrink. I needn't argue with that; I'm right and I will be proved right.'.. John Lennon
'We are not just here to manage capitalism but to change society and to define its finer values'.. Tony Benn
'Nothing builds self-esteem and self-confidence like accomplishment'.. Thomas Carlyle
'Not content to have the audience in the palm of his hand, he goes one further and clinches his fist.'.. Kenneth Tynan
'What passions cannot music raise or quell?'.. John Dryden
'There is much to be said for failure. It is much more interesting than success.'.. Max Beerbohm
'A man may devote himself to death and destruction to save a nation; but no nation will devote itself to death and destruction to save mankind.'.. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
'It's an honor to be on the same network that gave us 'The Sopranos,' ... They made me an offer I couldn't refuse.'.. Ricky Gervais
'Our greatest glory consists not in never failing, but in rising every time we fall'.. Oliver Goldsmith
'And yet to every bad there is a worse.'.. Thomas Hardy
'It's no use crying over spilt summits.'.. Harold Macmillan
'It's so easy for propaganda to work, and dissent to be mocked.'.. Harold Pinter
'Whenever a separation is made between liberty and justice, neither, in my opinion, is safe.'.. Edmund Burke
'Serious sport is war minus the shooting.'.. George Orwell
'There's no such thing as failure - just waiting for success.'.. John Osborne
'If you don't believe in God, all you have to believe in is decency.'.. Harold Macmillan