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Famous British Quotes
'God gave us memory so that we might have roses in December.'.. J M Barrie
'My goal is simple. It is a complete understanding of the universe, why it is as it is and why it exists at all.'.. Stephen Hawking
'Chester pleases my fancy more than any other place I ever saw'.. James Boswell
'For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbors and laugh at them in our turn?'.. Jane Austen
'My definition of an intellectual is someone who can listen to the William Tell Overture without thinking of the Lone Ranger.'.. Billy Connolly
'Those who have no hope pass their old age shrouded with an inward gloom'.. Wilfred Owen
'Money doesn't mind if we say it's evil, it goes from strength to strength. It's a fiction, an addiction, and a tacit conspiracy'.. Martin Amis
'WH Auden didnt love God, he just fancied him'.. Stephen Spender
'One of the things being in politics has taught me is that men are not a reasoned or reasonable sex'.. Margaret Thatcher
'Life is a progress from want to want, not from enjoyment to enjoyment.'.. Samuel Johnson
'A man is in general better pleased when he has a good dinner upon his table, than when his wife talks Greek'.. Samuel Johnson
'At the end of the Beatles, I really was done in for the first time in my life. Until then, I really was a kind of cocky sod.'.. Paul McCartney
'When a man is tired of London, he is tired of life; for there is in London all that life can afford.'.. Samuel Johnson
'Conventionality is not morality.'.. Charlotte Bronte
'That's all drugs and alcohol do, they cut off your emotions in the end.'.. Ringo Starr
'All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.'.. Edmund Burke
'There can be no liberty unless there is economic liberty.'.. Margaret Thatcher
'Concentrate all your thoughts upon the work at hand. The sun's rays do not burn until brought to a focus.'.. Alexander Graham Bell
'I may be drunk, Miss, but in the morning I will be sober and you will still be ugly.'.. Winston Churchill
'In general, pride is at the bottom of all great mistakes.'.. John Ruskin
'An alcoholic is someone you don't like who drinks as much as you do'.. Dylan Thomas
'If you feel that life is one of Gods jokes there is still no reason not to make it a good oke'.. Kenneth Williams
'Everything government touches turns to crap.'.. Ringo Starr
'Fortunate indeed the child who first sees the light of day in that romantic town'.. Andrew Carnegie
'There are three rules for writing a novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are'.. Somerset Maugham
'The individual is not accountable to society for his actions in so far as these concern the interests of no person but himself.'.. John Stuart Mill
'Five minutes on even the nicest mountain is awfully long'.. W H Auden
'Have nothing in your house that you do not know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful.'.. William Morris
'Last night I dreamt I ate a ten pound marshmallow. When I woke up the pillow was gone.'.. Tommy Cooper
'A happy family is but an earlier heaven.'.. George Bernard Shaw