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Famous British Quotes
'By indignities men come to dignities.'.. Sir Francis Bacon
'Men think about women. Women think about what men think about them.'.. Peter Ustinov
'Every man who is high up likes to think that he has done it all himself, and the wife smiles and lets it go at that'.. J M Barrie
'I am prepared to go anywhere, provided it be forward.'.. David Livingstone
'The poetry of the earth is never dead.'.. John Keats
'True it is that covetousness is rich, modesty starves.'.. John Milton
'Elegance is inferior to virtue.'.. Mary Shelley
'For truth is always strange; stranger than fiction.'.. Lord Byron
'It is always the best policy to speak the truth, unless, of course, you are an exceptionally good lia'.. Jerome K Jerome
'I used to be indecisive but now I am not quite sure.'.. Tommy Cooper
'We started off trying to set up a small anarchist community, but people wouldn't obey the rules.'.. Alan Bennett
'You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it.'.. Margaret Thatcher
'Cities, like cats, will reveal themselves at night.'.. Rupert Brooke
'If I have done the public any service, it is due to my patient thought'.. Isaac Newton
'I am one of those who would rather sink with faith than swim without it.'.. Stanley Baldwin
'Deep-versed in books and shallow in himself.'.. John Milton
'I always said God was against art and I still believe it.'.. Edward Elgar
'I've got a great ambition to die of exhaustion rather than boredom.'.. Thomas Carlyle
'There is a wisdom of the head, and a wisdom of the heart.'.. Charles Dickens
'A nation trying to tax itself to prosperity is rather like a man standing in a bucket and trying to lift himself up by the handle'.. Winston Churchill
'It is obvious that we can no more explain a passion to a person who has never experienced it than we can explain light to the blind.'.. T S Eliot
'You'll find that empty vessels make the most sound'.. John Lydon (Johnny Rotten)
'A poet is a professional maker of verbal objects.'.. W H Auden
'Where there is no property there is no injustice.'.. John Locke
'A laugh is worth a hundred groans in any market.'.. Charles Lamb
'How little do they see what is, who frame their hasty judgments upon that which seems'.. Robert Southey
'Every man desires to live long, but no man wishes to be old.'.. Jonathan Swift
'Heresy is another word for freedom of thought.'.. Graham Greene
'All vital truth contains the memory of all that for which it is not true.'.. D H Lawrence
'Last night I dreamt I ate a ten pound marshmallow. When I woke up the pillow was gone.'.. Tommy Cooper