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Famous British Quotes
'Loyalty is a fine quality, but in excess it fills political graveyards.'.. Neil Kinnock
'I've never intended to be controversial but it's very easy to be controversial in pop music because nobody ever is'.. Morrissey
'Suspense is worse than disappointment.'.. Robert Burns
'Enlightened people seldom or never possess a sense of responsibility'.. George Orwell
'There is not a more repulsive spectacle than on old man who will not forsake the world, which has already forsaken him.'.. T S Eliot
'Absence - that common cure of love.'.. Lord Byron
'How long was I in the army? Five foot eleven.'.. Spike Milligan
'People say you should read your criticism because it will make you a better person but it doesn't. It just makes you a sad bitter old showbiz nightmare'.. Jo Brand
'All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.'.. Edmund Burke
'Grey towers of Durham, yet well I loved thy mixed and massive piles'.. Walter Scott
'Integrity is so perishable in the summer months of success.'.. Vanessa Redgrave
'Everyone ought to bear patiently the results of his own conduct.'.. William Shakespeare
'Nothing puzzles me more than the time and space; and yet nothing troubles me less.'.. Charles Lamb
'Divorce is a game played by lawyers.'.. Cary Grant
'Confidence is a plant of slow growth in an aged heart.'.. William Pitt (The Younger)
'There is no such thing as darkness; only a failure to see.'.. Malcolm Muggeridge
'Loss and possession, death and life are one, There falls no shadow where there shines no sun.'.. Hilaire Belloc
'A person may cause evil to others not only by his actions but by his inaction'.. John Stuart Mill
'Go as far as you can see; when you get there you'll be able to see farther.'.. Thomas Carlyle
'I used to be indecisive but now I am not quite sure.'.. Tommy Cooper
'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
'Whichever party is in office, the Treasury is in power.'.. Harold Wilson
'Henley is the Venice of the South'.. Boris Johnson
'Nothing is so contagious as enthusiasm.'.. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
'For several days after my first book was published, I carried it about in my pocket and took surreptitious peeps at it to make sure the ink had not faded.'.. J M Barrie
'Oh the nerves, the nerves; the mysteries of this machine called man! Oh the little that unhinges it, poor creatures that we are!'.. Charles Dickens
'Human blunders usually do more to shape history than human wickedness.'.. A J P Taylor
'And yet to every bad there is a worse.'.. Thomas Hardy
'I have frequently gained my first real insight into the character of parents by studying their children'.. Arthur Conan Doyle
'I've sometimes thought of marrying - and then I've thought again.'.. Noel Coward