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Famous British Quotes
'Poverty of course is no disgrace, but it is damned annoying.'.. William Pitt (The Younger)
'I love everything that's old, - old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wine'.. Oliver Goldsmith
'Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all'.. Alfred Lord Tennyson
'Lies are sufficient to breed opinion, and opinion brings on substance'.. Sir Francis Bacon
'It is with words as with sunbeams - the more they are condensed, the deeper they burn'.. Robert Southey
'There is no real wealth but the labor of man.'.. Percy Bysshe Shelley
'It takes little talent to see what lies under one's nose, a good deal to know in what direction to point that organ.'.. W H Auden
'A mother is a mother still, The holiest thing alive.'.. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
'Electric communication will never be a substitute for the face of someone who with their soul encourages another person to be brave and true.'.. Charles Dickens
'Each generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it'.. George Orwell
'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
'Corruption never has been compulsory.'.. Anthony Eden
'Unintelligent people always look for a scapegoat.'.. Ernest Bevin
'Do what you will, this world's a fiction and is made up of contradiction'.. William Blake
'The highest possible stage in moral culture is when we recognize that we ought to control our thoughts.'.. Charles Darwin
'People say you should read your criticism because it will make you a better person but it doesn't. It just makes you a sad bitter old showbiz nightmare'.. Jo Brand
'Every time you liberate a woman, you liberate a man'.. Emmeline Pankhurst
'I hate people who think it's clever to take drugs... like custom officers'.. Jack Dee
'Give the enemy not only a road for flight, but also a means of defending it.'.. Thomas Hardy
'Saw a wedding in the church. It was strange to see what delight we married people have to see these poor fools decoyed into our condition.'.. Samuel Pepys
'I got nasty habits; I take tea at three.'.. Mick Jagger
'I refuse to spend my life worrying about what I eat. There is no pleasure worth forgoing just for an extra three years in the geriatric ward.'.. Sir John Mortimer
'I lost my job as a cricket commentator for saying “I don’t want to bore you with the details”'.. Milton Jones
'From the middle of life onward, only he remains vitally alive who is ready to die with life'.. Samuel Johnson
'A neurosis is a secret that you don't know you are keeping.'.. Kenneth Tynan
'Punctuality is the virtue of the bored.'.. Evelyn Waugh
'Football is not a matter of Life and Death - its far more important than that'.. Bill Shankly
'I wouldn't mind seeing China if I could come back the same day.'.. Philip Larkin
'If you feel depressed or let down my advice is to roast a chicken'.. Delia Smith
'I believe in getting in to hot water. It keeps you clean'.. GK Chesterton