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Famous British Quotes
'Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will make me go in a corner and cry by myself for hours.'.. Eric Idle
'A faith is something you die for, a doctrine is something you kill for. There is all the difference in the world'.. Tony Benn
'There is not a more repulsive spectacle than on old man who will not forsake the world, which has already forsaken him.'.. T S Eliot
'I love a scary movie. It makes your toes curl and it's not you going through it.'.. Sir Anthony Hopkins
'I've done the most awful rubbish in order to have somewhere to go in the morning'.. Richard Burton
'I don't think Henry Kissinger would have lasted 48 hours at Old Trafford.'.. Tommy Docherty
'Invention, it must be humbly admitted, does not consist in creating out of voice, but out of chaos'.. Mary Shelley
'Adapt or perish, now as ever, is nature's inexorable imperative.'.. H G Wells
'Better a witty fool than a foolish wit.'.. William Shakespeare
'There is always time for failure.'.. Sir John Mortimer
'It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend.'.. John Dryden
'All slang is metaphor, and all metaphor is poetry.'.. GK Chesterton
'Life appears to me too short to be spent in nursing animosity, or registering wrongs.'.. Charlotte Bronte
'Greenwich possesses the best air, the best prospect and the best conversation'.. Daniel Defoe
'I always knew that if all else failed I could become an actor. And all else failed'.. David Niven
'There are no such things as Flowers there are only gladdened Leaves.'.. John Ruskin
'All heiresses are beautiful.'.. John Dryden
'Rigid, the skeleton of habit alone upholds the human frame.'.. Virginia Woolf
'I have changed. I no longer keep coal in the bath. I keep it in the bidet'.. John Prescott
'Life could be wonderful if people would leave you alone.'.. Charlie Chaplin
'Heroes, whatever high ideas we may have of them, are mortal and not divine. We are all as God made us and many of us much worse.'.. John Osborne
'What Youth deemed crystal, Age finds out was dew.'.. Robert Browning
'If slaughterhouses had glass walls, everyone would be a vegetarian.'.. Paul McCartney
'All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.'.. Winston Churchill
'The truth that is suppressed by friends is the readiest weapon of the enemy.'.. Robert Louis Stevenson
'Compromise is the best and cheapest lawyer.'.. Robert Louis Stevenson
'History is a cyclic poem written by time upon the memories of man'.. Percy Bysshe Shelley
'Man hands on misery to man. It deepens like a coastal shelf. Get out as early as you can, and don't have any kids yourself'.. Philip Larkin
'Never in the way, and never out of the way.'.. Charles II
'Give him enough rope and he will hang himself.'.. Charlotte Bronte