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Famous British Quotes
'I have changed. I no longer keep coal in the bath. I keep it in the bidet'.. John Prescott
'The Beduin could not look for God within him: he was too sure that he was within God.'.. T E Lawrence
'All a poet can do today is warn.'.. Wilfred Owen
'Some folk want their luck buttered'.. Thomas Hardy
'We pay when old for the excesses of youth.'.. J B Priestley
'The worst of revolutions is a restoration'.. Charles James Fox
'For all right judgment of any man or things it is useful, nay, essential, to see his good qualities before pronouncing on his bad.'.. Thomas Carlyle
'Life’s never a postcard of life, is it? It never feels like how you’d want it to look'.. Russell Brand
'Man tends to increase at a greater rate than his means of subsistence.'.. Charles Darwin
'I am determined that my children shall be brought up in their father's religion, if they can find out what it is.'.. Charles Lamb
'Peace rules the day, where reason rules the mind.'.. Wilkie Collins
'To sentence a man of true genius, to the drudgery of a school is to put a racehorse on a treadmill'.. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
'Beware of snobbery; it is the unwelcome recognition of one's own past failings'.. Cary Grant
'The martyr sacrifices themselves entirely in vain. Or rather not in vain; for they make the narrow narrower'.. Florence Nightingale
'No one does anything from a single motive.'.. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
'No one can read with profit that which he cannot learn to read with pleasure.'.. Thomas Hardy
'Corruption never has been compulsory.'.. Anthony Eden
'Business today consists in persuading crowds.'.. T S Eliot
'I have no consistency, except in politics; and that probably arises from my indifference to the subject altogether'.. Lord Byron
'The palace is not safe when the cottage is not happy.'.. Benjamin Disraeli
'There is no education like adversity.'.. Benjamin Disraeli
'There's no use doing a kindness if you do it a day too late.'.. Charles Kingsley
'The man's desire is for the woman; but the woman's desire is rarely other than for the desire of the man.'.. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
'Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.'.. Oscar Wilde
'There are only four people who knew what the Beatles were about anyway.'.. Paul McCartney
'We shape our buildings; thereafter they shape us.'.. Winston Churchill
'I work for a Government I despise for ends I think criminal.'.. John Maynard Keynes
'A dream you dream alone is only a dream. A dream you dream together is reality'.. John Lennon
'A man who does not think for himself does not think at all.'.. Oscar Wilde
'I remain just one thing, and one thing only, and that is a clown. It places me on a far higher plane than any politician.'.. Charlie Chaplin