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Famous British Quotes
'People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf'.. George Orwell
'It's discouraging to think how many people are shocked by honesty and how few by deceit.'.. Noel Coward
'All money is a matter of belief.'.. Adam Smith
'Oh, 'tis love, 'tis love that makes the world go round.'.. Lewis Carroll
'I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite'.. GK Chesterton
'I chose my wife, as she did her wedding gown, for qualities that would wear well'.. Oliver Goldsmith
'I wouldn't mind seeing China if I could come back the same day.'.. Philip Larkin
'When a society has to resort to the lavatory for its humour the writing is on the wall'.. Alan Bennett
'No one does anything from a single motive.'.. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
'You'll find that empty vessels make the most sound'.. John Lydon (Johnny Rotten)
'In the end, the love you take is equal to the love you make.'.. Paul McCartney
'God has two dwellings; one in heaven, and the other in a meek and thankful heart.'.. Izaak Walton
'There are a terrible lot of lies going about the world, and the worst of it is that half of them are true.'.. Winston Churchill
'The land of my fathers. My fathers can have it.'.. Dylan Thomas
'Nothing is more obstinate than a fashionable consensus.'.. Margaret Thatcher
'A man never tells you anything until you contradict him.'.. George Bernard Shaw
'I don't think I am any good. If I thought I was any good, I wouldn't be.'.. John Betjeman
'You can get an Englishman to do anything simply by whispering in his ear "I know your guilty secret"'.. P G Wodehouse
'The fact that logic cannot satisfy us awakens an almost insatiable hunger for the irrational.'.. A N Wilson
'The most romantic, if not the most beautiful, place in Scotland'.. Walter Scott
'A faith is something you die for, a doctrine is something you kill for. There is all the difference in the world'.. Tony Benn
'All men have an instinct for conflict: at least, all healthy men.'.. Hilaire Belloc
'Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead'.. Oscar Wilde
'The aim of a joke is not to degrade the human being, but to remind him that he is already degraded'.. George Orwell
'A lot of football success is in the mind. You must believe you are the best and then make sure that you are.'.. Bill Shankly
'Whichever party is in office, the Treasury is in power.'.. Harold Wilson
'I don't pretend we have all the answers. But the questions are certainly worth thinking about.'.. Arthur C Clarke
'Without humility there can be no humanity.'.. John Buchan
'Until you understand a writer's ignorance, presume yourself ignorant of his understanding'.. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
'Life contains but two tragedies. One is not to get your heart's desire; the other is to get it.'.. George Bernard Shaw