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Famous British Quotes
'I have never had problems with drugs. I have had problems with the police....'.. Keith Richards
'The dread of evil is a much more forcible principle of human actions than the prospect of good.'.. John Locke
'One sees great things from the valley; only small things from the peak.'.. GK Chesterton
'The way to tell if a man is sexually excited is to check if he is breathing'.. Jo Brand
'Nothing builds self-esteem and self-confidence like accomplishment'.. Thomas Carlyle
'I found longer races boring. I found the mile just perfect.'.. Roger Bannister
'Quality is never an accident. It is always the result of intelligent effort.'.. John Ruskin
'A lover without indiscretion is no lover at all.'.. Thomas Hardy
'I may be drunk, Miss, but in the morning I will be sober and you will still be ugly.'.. Winston Churchill
'Those who don't believe in magic will never find it'.. Roald Dahl
'In London, love and scandal are considered the best sweeteners of tea.'.. John Osborne
'Age is a very high price to pay for maturity.'.. Sir Tom Stoppard
'A woman is as young as her knees.'.. Mary Quant
'Life is made of ever so many partings welded together.'.. Charles Dickens
'An American monkey, after getting drunk on brandy, would never touch it again, and thus is much wiser than most men.'.. Charles Darwin
'Football wasn't meant to be run by linesmen and air traffic control.'.. Tommy Docherty
'A man does not know what he is saying until he knows what he is not saying'.. GK Chesterton
'I wouldn't mind seeing China if I could come back the same day.'.. Philip Larkin
'He that is taught only by himself has a fool for a master'.. Ben Jonson
'Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.'.. H G Wells
'Fortitude is the guard and support of the other virtues.'.. John Locke
'I think it is the responsibility of a citizen of any country to say what he thinks.'.. Harold Pinter
'The longer you look at an object, the more abstract it becomes, and, ironically, the more real.'.. Lucien Freud
'I got nasty habits; I take tea at three.'.. Mick Jagger
'No distance of place or lapse of time can lessen the friendship of those who are thoroughly persuaded of each other's worth'.. Robert Southey
'Love is love's reward.'.. John Dryden
'Charm, in most men and nearly all women, is a decoration.'.. E M Forster
'Instead of this absurd division into sexes they ought to class people as static and dynamic.'.. Evelyn Waugh
'Comedy, we may say, is society protecting itself - with a smile.'.. J B Priestley
'There is no comparison between that which is lost by not succeeding and that which is lost by not trying.'.. Sir Francis Bacon