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Famous British Quotes
'As usual, there is a great woman behind every idiot.'.. John Lennon
'Make yourself an honest man, and then you may be sure there is one less rascal in the world'.. Thomas Carlyle
'Desperate affairs require desperate measures.'.. Horatio Nelson
'Don't accept the old order. Get rid of it.'.. John Lydon (Johnny Rotten)
'Literature is strewn with the wreckage of men who have minded beyond reason the opinions of others'.. Virginia Woolf
'The dreadful truth is that when people come to see their MP they have run out of better ideas'.. Boris Johnson
'No amount of ability is of the slightest avail without honor.'.. Thomas Carlyle
'Men of my age live in a state of continual desperation.'.. Vita Sackville-West
'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
'We build too many walls and not enough bridges.'.. Isaac Newton
'God never made His work for man to mend.'.. John Dryden
'No brilliance is needed in the law. Nothing but common sense, and relatively clean finger nails.'.. Sir John Mortimer
'Old Professors never die, they just lose their faculties.'.. Stephen Fry
'To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.'.. Oscar Wilde
'There is only one religion, though there are a hundred versions of it.'.. George Bernard Shaw
'A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul.'.. George Bernard Shaw
'Always laugh when you can. It is cheap medicine.'.. Lord Byron
'On the outskirts of every agony sits some observant fellow who points.'.. Virginia Woolf
'When one is writing a novel in the first person, one must be that person.'.. Daphne du Maurier
'In politics, there is no use looking beyond the next fortnight.'.. Joseph Chamberlain
'Where there is no property there is no injustice.'.. John Locke
'Do what you will, this world's a fiction and is made up of contradiction'.. William Blake
'To make us love our country, our country ought to be lovely.'.. Edmund Burke
'I refuse to spend my life worrying about what I eat. There is no pleasure worth forgoing just for an extra three years in the geriatric ward.'.. Sir John Mortimer
'Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past'.. George Orwell
'The first condition of progress is the removal of censorship.'.. George Bernard Shaw
'If the misery of the poor be caused not by the laws of nature, but by our institutions, great is our sin.'.. Charles Darwin
'Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.'.. George Bernard Shaw
'I don't know many singers who actually do like the sound of their own voice'.. Roger Daltrey
'Almost all crime is due to the repressed desire for aesthetic expression.'.. Evelyn Waugh