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Famous British Quotes
'Everybody grows but me.'.. Queen Victoria
'Full, saturated colours have an emotional significance I want to avoid.'.. Lucien Freud
'Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it.'.. George Bernard Shaw
'For all right judgment of any man or things it is useful, nay, essential, to see his good qualities before pronouncing on his bad.'.. Thomas Carlyle
'Our true nationality is mankind.'.. H G Wells
'Reverence is fatal to literature.'.. E M Forster
'You cannot antagonize and influence at the same time.'.. John Knox
'Fill your paper with the breathings of your heart.'.. William Wordsworth
'Where large sums of money are concerned, it is advisable to trust nobody'.. Agatha Christie
'I wonder what fool it was that first invented kissing.'.. Jonathan Swift
'It is necessary to relax your muscles when you can. Relaxing your brain is fatal.'.. Stirling Moss
'During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act'.. George Orwell
'I venture to say no war can be long carried on against the will of the people.'.. Edmund Burke
'No violent extreme endures.'.. Thomas Carlyle
'It's not the having, it's the getting.'.. Elizabeth Taylor
'For success, attitude is equally as important as ability.'.. Walter Scott
'Conviction is worthless unless it is converted into conduct.'.. Thomas Carlyle
'Europe was created by history. America was created by philosophy'.. Margaret Thatcher
'If all the economists were laid end to end, they'd never reach a conclusion'.. George Bernard Shaw
'Time is everything; five minutes make the difference between victory and defeat'.. Horatio Nelson
'My reputation grows with every failure.'.. George Bernard Shaw
'Riches are a good hand maiden, but a poor mistress.'.. Sir Francis Bacon
'Eating words has never given me indigestion.'.. Winston Churchill
'Tolerance is another word for indifference.'.. Somerset Maugham
'Biography lends to death a new terror'.. Oscar Wilde
'Somebody said to me, 'But the Beatles were anti-materialistic.' That's a huge myth. John and I literally used to sit down and say, 'Now, let's write a swimming pool.''.. Paul McCartney
'The dreadful truth is that when people come to see their MP they have run out of better ideas'.. Boris Johnson
'Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.'.. John Locke
'You have no idea what a poor opinion I have of myself and how little I deserve it'.. W S Gilbert
'I desire no future that will break the ties with the past.'.. George Eliot