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Famous British Quotes
'One should always be in love. That is the reason one should never marry.'.. Oscar Wilde
'The more you understand something, I think the more you can enjoy it.'.. Ricky Gervais
'The politician who never made a mistake never made a decision.'.. John Major
'The poetry of the earth is never dead.'.. John Keats
'Necessity has no law.'.. Oliver Cromwell
'Saints should always be judged guilty until they are proved innocent'.. George Orwell
'A week is a long time in politics.'.. Harold Wilson
'Men do less than they ought, unless they do all that they can.'.. Thomas Carlyle
'Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.'.. Edmund Burke
'Everything's complicated, even those things that seem flat in their bleakness or sadness'.. Nick Hornby
'No man can be an agnostic who has a sense of humour.'.. E M Forster
'It is no wonder that people are so horrible when they start their life as children.'.. Sir Kingsley Amis
'Men of power have no time to read; yet the men who do not read are unfit for power'.. Michael Foot
'All we need to make us really happy is something to be enthusiastic about.'.. Charles Kingsley
'Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not; a sense of humor to console him for what he is.'.. Sir Francis Bacon
'I think fidelity is a good idea - now that I cant walk'.. Sir John Mortimer
'Never forget that only dead fish swim with the stream.'.. Malcolm Muggeridge
'No advance in wealth, no softening of manners, no reform or revolution has ever brought human equality a millimeter nearer'.. George Orwell
'The trouble with children is that they are non-returnable'.. Quentin Crisp
'In the old days men had the rack. Now they have the Press'.. Oscar Wilde
'To cure the British disease with socialism was like trying to cure leukaemia with leeches'.. Margaret Thatcher
'Artists are like everybody else.'.. Damien Hirst
'Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.'.. T S Eliot
'Do not tell secrets to those whose faith and silence you have not already tested.'.. Elizabeth I
'There are grounds for cautious optimism that we may now be near the end of the search for the ultimate laws of nature.'.. Stephen Hawking
'Never trust a man, who when left alone with a tea cosey... Doesn't try it on.'.. Billy Connolly
'It was a very simple team talk. All I used to say was: 'Whenever possible, give the ball to George'.. Matt Busby
'Soul meets soul on lovers' lips.'.. Percy Bysshe Shelley
'I read the newspapers avidly. It is my one form of continuous fiction.'.. Aneurin Bevan
'Women have no sympathy and my experience of women is almost as large as Europe'.. Florence Nightingale