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Famous British Quotes
'I think I am a child. Everything blows my mind.'.. Marc Bolan
'Bachelors have consciences, married men have wives.'.. Samuel Johnson
'I believe the first test of a truly great man is in his humility.'.. John Ruskin
'Nothing that is morally wrong can be politically right.'.. W E Gladstone
'Ambition - it is the last infirmity of noble minds.'.. J M Barrie
'I'll go through life either first class or third, but never in second.'.. Noel Coward
'A man seldom thinks with more earnestness of anything than he does of his dinner'.. Samuel Johnson
'I've always said if you want to outwit an Englishman touch him when he doesn't want to be touched'.. Julian Barnes
'One forgets words as one forgets names. One's vocabulary needs constant fertilizing or it will die.'.. Evelyn Waugh
'A healthy attitude is contagious but don't wait to catch it from others. Be a carrier'.. Sir Tom Stoppard
'Ideas shape the course of history.'.. John Maynard Keynes
'Death is the only pure, beautiful conclusion of a great passion.'.. D H Lawrence
'It's bad taste to be wise all the time, like being at a perpetual funeral.'.. D H Lawrence
'A man with God is always in the majority.'.. John Knox
'All the war-propaganda, all the screaming and lies and hatred, comes invariably from people who are not fighting'.. George Orwell
'The thing about imagination is that by the very act of putting it down, there must be some truth in one's own imagination.'.. Dennis Potter
'There is no instinct like that of the heart.'.. Lord Byron
'All great truths begin as blasphemies.'.. George Bernard Shaw
'I don’t understand bus lanes. Why do poor people have to get to places quicker than I do?'.. Jeremy Clarkson
'Everybody grows but me.'.. Queen Victoria
'When we argue for our limitations, we get to keep them.'.. Evelyn Waugh
'Jogging is for people who aren't intelligent enough to watch breakfast TV'.. Victoria Wood
'Dare to be honest and fear no labour.'.. Robert Burns
'Suspense is worse than disappointment.'.. Robert Burns
'All money is a matter of belief.'.. Adam Smith
'To me there has never been a higher source of earthly honor or distinction than that connected with advances in science'.. Isaac Newton
'I may be drunk, Miss, but in the morning I will be sober and you will still be ugly.'.. Winston Churchill
'Doing is the great thing, for if people resolutely do what is right, they come in time to like doing it.'.. John Ruskin
'Everyone has his day and some days last longer than others.'.. Winston Churchill
'Compromise is the best and cheapest lawyer.'.. Robert Louis Stevenson