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Famous British Quotes
'Europe was created by history. America was created by philosophy'.. Margaret Thatcher
'All I can think of the Middle Ages is that everything must have chafed terribly'.. A A Gill
'It is better to lose health like a spendthrift than to waste it like a miser.'.. Robert Louis Stevenson
'Bores can be divided into two classes; those who have their own particular subject, and those who do not need a subject.'.. A A Milne
'It is the duty of Her Majesty's government neither to flap nor to falter'.. Harold Macmillan
'Dorchester - A very agreeable town to live in'.. Daniel Defoe
'If there were no bad people, there would be no good lawyers.'.. Charles Dickens
'My body has certainly wandered a good deal, but I have an uneasy suspicion that my mind has not wandered enough.'.. Noel Coward
'The poetry of the earth is never dead.'.. John Keats
'I am the only man who can say he has been in Take That and at least 2 members of the Spice Girls'.. Robbie Williams
'I believe in getting in to hot water. It keeps you clean'.. GK Chesterton
'All that I desire to point out is the general principle that life imitates art far more than art imitates life'.. Oscar Wilde
'The thing about imagination is that by the very act of putting it down, there must be some truth in one's own imagination.'.. Dennis Potter
'He who rejects change is the architect of decay. The only human institution which rejects progress is the cemetery'.. Harold Wilson
'Reading without reflecting is like eating without digesting.'.. Edmund Burke
'The worst moment for the atheist is when he is really thankful and has nobody to thank.'.. Dante G Rossetti
'Have a heart that never hardens, and a temper that never tires, and a touch that never hurts.'.. Charles Dickens
'Taste every fruit of every tree in the garden at least once. It is an insult to creation not to experience it fully. Temperance is wickedness'.. Stephen Fry
'When I am dead, I hope it may be said: His sins were scarlet, but his books were read'.. Hilaire Belloc
'Show me the man you honor, and I will know what kind of man you are.'.. Thomas Carlyle
'Being pregnant is an occupational hazard of being a wife.'.. Queen Victoria
'If I played Hamlet, they`d call it a horror film'.. Peter Cushing
'A person is a fool to become a writer. His only compensation is absolute freedom'.. Roald Dahl
'Nothing is so fatal to religion as indifference.'.. Edmund Burke
'All money is a matter of belief.'.. Adam Smith
'Justice delayed is justice denied.'.. W E Gladstone
'Love is 2 minutes and 52 seconds of squelching noises'.. John Lydon (Johnny Rotten)
'Motion is tranquility.'.. Stirling Moss
'The toilets at a local police station have been stolen. Police say they have nothing to go on'.. Ronnie Barker
'You know, I go to the theatre to be entertained. I don’t want to see plays about rape, sodomy and drug addiction...I can get all that at home'.. Peter Cook