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Famous British Quotes
'A consistent soul believes in destiny, a capricious one in chance.'.. Benjamin Disraeli
'The whole annual produce of the land and labour of every country...naturally divides itself into three parts; the rent of the land, the wages of labour, and the profits of stock'.. Adam Smith
'Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs.'.. William Shakespeare
'Greatness and goodness are not means, but ends.'.. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
'I am not struck so much by the diversity of testimony as by the many-sidedness of truth.'.. Stanley Baldwin
'Autumn wins you best by this its mute appeal to sympathy for its decay.'.. Robert Browning
'Being deaf and partially blind means I don't really watch TV. I wouldn't know what to do with a remote control.'.. Eric Sykes
'Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.'.. George Bernard Shaw
'The greatness of a man's power is the measure of his surrender.'.. William Booth
'I like to drink to suit my location.'.. Tom Jones
'All we need to make us really happy is something to be enthusiastic about.'.. Charles Kingsley
'You may travel the world over but you will find nowhere more beautiful; It is so restful, so colourful and so unspoilt (Tenby)'.. Augustus John
'Our patience will achieve more than our force.'.. Edmund Burke
'Religion stands, the Church blocking the sun.'.. Stephen Spender
'Not content to have the audience in the palm of his hand, he goes one further and clinches his fist.'.. Kenneth Tynan
'It is so pleasant to come across people more stupid than ourselves. We love them at once for being so'.. Jerome K Jerome
'Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point.'.. C S Lewis
'Dancing is a perpendicular expression of a horizontal desire.'.. George Bernard Shaw
'Little children are still the symbol of the eternal marriage between love and duty.'.. George Eliot
'England is not all the world.'.. Mary, Queen of Scots
'I don’t understand bus lanes. Why do poor people have to get to places quicker than I do?'.. Jeremy Clarkson
'Life appears to me too short to be spent in nursing animosity, or registering wrongs.'.. Charlotte Bronte
'All the war-propaganda, all the screaming and lies and hatred, comes invariably from people who are not fighting'.. George Orwell
'It is not good to cross the bridge before you get to it.'.. Judi Dench
'All vital truth contains the memory of all that for which it is not true.'.. D H Lawrence
'Nothing shows up the difference between the things said or read, so much as the daily experience of it'.. Vita Sackville-West
'There is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact.'.. Arthur Conan Doyle
'A play should give you something to think about. When I see a play and understand it the first time, then I know it can't be much good.'.. T S Eliot
'Merely having an open mind is nothing. The object of opening the mind, as with the mouth, is it firmly shut it again on something solid'.. GK Chesterton
'Every new opinion, at its starting, is precisely in a minority of one.'.. Thomas Carlyle