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Famous British Quotes
'Talk that does not end in any kind of action is better suppressed altogether.'.. Thomas Carlyle
'Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.'.. Samuel Johnson
'Pleasure and freedom from pain, are the only things desirable as ends.'.. John Stuart Mill
'Death is just life's next big adventure.'.. J K Rowling
'I think childhood is to everyone a lost land.'.. Dennis Potter
'Asparagus inspires gentle thoughts.'.. Charles Lamb
'I owe nothing to Women's Lib.'.. Margaret Thatcher
'Anything worth doing is worth overdoing.'.. Mick Jagger
'You should not take a fellow eight years old and make him swear to never kiss the girls'.. Robert Browning
'Beware the fury of a patient man.'.. John Dryden
'One of the things being in politics has taught me is that men are not a reasoned or reasonable sex'.. Margaret Thatcher
'Man's love is of man's life a part; it is a woman's whole existence. In her first passion, a woman loves her lover, in all the others all she loves is love.'.. Lord Byron
'I had a dream that I was awake and I woke up to find myself asleep.'.. Stan Laurel
'Anything's possible if you've got enough nerve.'.. J K Rowling
'We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.'.. Winston Churchill
'An American monkey, after getting drunk on brandy, would never touch it again, and thus is much wiser than most men.'.. Charles Darwin
'I'm a classic example of all humorists - only funny when I'm working'.. Peter Sellers
'A faith is something you die for, a doctrine is something you kill for. There is all the difference in the world'.. Tony Benn
'When words are scarce they are seldom spent in vain.'.. William Shakespeare
'Honour sinks where commerce long prevails.'.. Oliver Goldsmith
'Justice delayed is justice denied.'.. W E Gladstone
'my words are my own, and my actions are my ministers'.. Charles II
'Ability is sexless'.. Christabel Pankhurst
'In Italy the whole country is a theatre and the worst actors are on the stage'.. George Bernard Shaw
'Look twice before you leap.'.. Charlotte Bronte
'Someone told me that each equation I included in the book would halve the sales.'.. Stephen Hawking
'No one does anything from a single motive.'.. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
'I hate publicity, and I have contrived to survive to be an old woman without it, except in the homey atmosphere of Agricultural Shows'.. Beatrix Potter
'I didn't come into politics to change the Labour Party. I came into politics to change the country'.. Tony Blair
'The trouble with words is that you never know whose mouths they have been in.'.. Dennis Potter