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Famous British Quotes
'It wasn't until late in life that I discovered how easy it is to say "I don't know."'.. Somerset Maugham
'Peace rules the day, where reason rules the mind.'.. Wilkie Collins
'Pictures deface walls more often than they decorate them.'.. William Wordsworth
'Every dog must have his day.'.. Jonathan Swift
'Better to reign in hell than serve in heaven'.. John Milton
'I wanted above all else not to be like my mum.'.. Julie Walters
'The performances you have in your head are always much better than the performances on stage'.. Maggie Smith
'Money doesn't mind if we say it's evil, it goes from strength to strength. It's a fiction, an addiction, and a tacit conspiracy'.. Martin Amis
'What passions cannot music raise or quell?'.. John Dryden
'The news is always bad, even when it sounds good'.. Aldous Huxley
'Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.'.. Winston Churchill
'The four characteristics of humanism are curiosity, a free mind, belief in good taste, and belief in the human race.'.. E M Forster
'I am certainly an ought and not a must.'.. E M Forster
'A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul.'.. George Bernard Shaw
'I did not fully understand the dread term 'terminal illness' until I saw Heathrow for myself.'.. Dennis Potter
'The difference between a bad artist and a good one is: the bad artist seems to copy a great deal; the good one really does'.. William Blake
'Life is like a very short visit to a toyshop between birth and death.'.. Desmond Morris
'A laugh is worth a hundred groans in any market.'.. Charles Lamb
'There will always be an England even if its in Hollywood'.. Bob Hope
'In human relationships, kindness and lies are worth a thousand truths'.. Graham Greene
'I spent a lot of money on booze, birds and fast cars. The rest I just squandered.'.. George Best
'I am humble enough to know I have made mistakes but politically astute enough to know that I have forgotten what they are'.. Michael Heseltine
'A person may cause evil to others not only by his actions but by his inaction'.. John Stuart Mill
'When you've seen a nude infant doing a backward somersault you know why clothing exists'.. Stephen Fry
'Patriots always talk of dying for their country but never of killing for their country'.. Bertrand Russell
'Culture is the process by which a person becomes all that they were created capable of being'.. Thomas Carlyle
'The more I see the less I know for sure.'.. John Lennon
'Nobody ever died of laughter.'.. Max Beerbohm
'It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.'.. Oscar Wilde
'I venture to say no war can be long carried on against the will of the people.'.. Edmund Burke