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Famous British Quotes
'That's all drugs and alcohol do, they cut off your emotions in the end.'.. Ringo Starr
'To an ordinary human being, love means nothing if it does not mean loving some people more than others'.. George Orwell
'I keep seeing myself in my daughter, and I see my mother in me and in her. Bloody hell.'.. Julie Walters
'The remedy is worse than the disease.'.. Sir Francis Bacon
'Intelligence is the ability to adapt to change.'.. Stephen Hawking
'Lets face it Football is a game for commoners. As soon as you get a mortgage you start to like Tennis'.. Jonathan Ross
'A platitude is simply a truth repeated till people get tired of hearing it.'.. Stanley Baldwin
'I left England when I was 4 when I discovered that I couldnt be king'.. Bob Hope
'Common sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom'.. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
'Life is generally something that happens elsewhere.'.. Alan Bennett
'Except a living man, there is nothing more wonderful than a book.'.. Charles Kingsley
'One of the things being in politics has taught me is that men are not a reasoned or reasonable sex'.. Margaret Thatcher
'You never know what is enough unless you know what is more than enough.'.. William Blake
'When one is writing a novel in the first person, one must be that person.'.. Daphne du Maurier
'Only a mediocre person is always at his best.'.. Somerset Maugham
'Every dog must have his day.'.. Jonathan Swift
'Dunblane Cathedral - I know not of anything so perfect in its simplicity'.. John Ruskin
'Everyone has his day and some days last longer than others.'.. Winston Churchill
'Oh, what a shock. My career must be slipping. This is the first time I've been available to pick up an award.'.. Michael Caine
'I don't watch television, I think it destroys the art of talking about oneself.'.. Stephen Fry
'Reverence is fatal to literature.'.. E M Forster
'Nature, to be commanded, must be obeyed.'.. Sir Francis Bacon
'I love criticism just so long as it's unqualified praise.'.. Noel Coward
'We shape our buildings; thereafter they shape us.'.. Winston Churchill
'It is only in the world of objects that we have time and space and selves.'.. T S Eliot
'The real tragedy of the poor is the poverty of their aspirations'.. Adam Smith
'Women have no sympathy and my experience of women is almost as large as Europe'.. Florence Nightingale
'On the road from the City of Skepticism, I had to pass through the Valley of Ambiguity.'.. Adam Smith
'We often repent of our first thoughts, and scarce ever of our second'.. Horace Walpole
'Listen to many, speak to a few.'.. William Shakespeare