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Famous British Quotes
'Speed has never killed anyone, suddenly becoming stationary… that’s what gets you'.. Jeremy Clarkson
'I felt my mother about the place. I don't think she haunts me, but I wouldn't put it past her.'.. Julie Walters
'Woman begins by resisting a man's advances and ends by blocking his retreat.'.. Oscar Wilde
'I don't know why I should have to learn Algebra... I'm never likely to go there.'.. Billy Connolly
'Don't accept the old order. Get rid of it.'.. John Lydon (Johnny Rotten)
'An explanation of cause is not a justification by reason'.. C S Lewis
'There's only room for one bigmouth in my organisation, and that's me.'.. Alan Sugar
'A belief is like a guillotine, just as heavy, just as light.'.. David Hockney
'No violent extreme endures.'.. Thomas Carlyle
'The disease which inflicts bureaucracy and what they usually die from is routine'.. John Stuart Mill
'It's easier to replace a dead man than a good picture.'.. George Bernard Shaw
'Nothing can cure the soul but the senses, just as nothing can cure the senses but the soul.'.. Oscar Wilde
'We are just an advanced breed of monkeys on a minor planet of a very average star. But we can understand the Universe. That makes us something very special.'.. Stephen Hawking
'All wealth is the product of labour.'.. John Locke
'A fanatic is a man who consciously over compensates a secret doubt.'.. Aldous Huxley
'The more we study the more we discover our ignorance.'.. Percy Bysshe Shelley
'No ghost was ever seen by two pairs of eyes.'.. Thomas Carlyle
'They are most deceived that trusteth most in themselves.'.. Elizabeth I
'Liberty is not merely a privilege to be conferred; it is a habit to be acquired'.. David Lloyd George
'The shelf life of the modern hardback writer is somewhere between the milk and the yogurt'.. Sir John Mortimer
'What happens in the heart simply happens.'.. Ted Hughes
'We have always found the Irish a bit odd. They refuse to be English.'.. Winston Churchill
'Older women are best, because they always think they may be doing it for the last time.'.. Ian Fleming
'Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.'.. George Bernard Shaw
'A gentleman is one who puts more into the world than he takes out'.. George Bernard Shaw
'Life, an age to the miserable, and a moment to the happy.'.. Sir Francis Bacon
''Hearty Homely loving Hertford''.. Charles Lamb
'The love of a mother is the veil of a softer light between the heart and the heavenly Father'.. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
'I have two ambitions in life: one is to drink every pub dry, the other is to sleep with every woman on earth.'.. Oliver Reed
'Unlimited power corrupts the possessor.'.. William Pitt (The Younger)