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Famous British Quotes
'God made them as stubble to our swords.'.. Oliver Cromwell
'Work is the curse of the drinking classes.'.. Oscar Wilde
'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 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
'The greatest man is he who forms the taste of a nation; the next greatest is he who corrupts it.'.. Joshua Reynolds
'It is not true that drink changes a man's character. It may reveal it more clearly.'.. John Osborne
'I think in terms of the day's resolutions, not the years'.'.. Henry Moore
'Motion is tranquility.'.. Stirling Moss
'To his dog, every man is Napoleon; hence the constant popularity of dogs.'.. Aldous Huxley
'All the war-propaganda, all the screaming and lies and hatred, comes invariably from people who are not fighting'.. George Orwell
'I have a fantasy where Ted Turner is elected president but refuses because he doesn't want to give up power.'.. Arthur C Clarke
'Don't be afraid to take a big step if one is indicated. You can't cross a chasm in two small jumps.'.. David Lloyd George
'Have you ever noticed? Anybody going slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than you is a maniac'.. Ronnie Corbett
'He is the best physician who is the most ingenious inspirer of hope.'.. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
'I can resist everything except temptation.'.. Oscar Wilde
'Pleasure is none, if not diversified.'.. John Donne
'But there, everything has its drawbacks, as the man said when his mother-in-law died, and they came down upon him for the funeral expenses'.. Jerome K Jerome
'Think globally, act locally.'.. Paul McCartney
'Religion stands, the Church blocking the sun.'.. Stephen Spender
'A ruffled mind makes a restless pillow.'.. Charlotte Bronte
'Success is the child of audacity.'.. Benjamin Disraeli
'Be not afraid of greatness: some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them'.. William Shakespeare
'Mad Dogs and Englishmen go out in the midday sun'.. Noel Coward
'Everything's got a moral, if only you can find it.'.. Lewis Carroll
'Put three Englishmen on a desert island and within an hour they will have invented a class system'.. Alan Ayckbourn
'Language is not only the vehicle of thought, it is a great and efficient instrument in thinking'.. Humphry Davy
'No advance in wealth, no softening of manners, no reform or revolution has ever brought human equality a millimeter nearer'.. George Orwell
'I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many unsigned poems, was a woman'.. Virginia Woolf
'All political power is a trust'.. Charles James Fox
'Difficulties are just things to overcome'.. Ernest Shackleton