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Famous British Quotes
'I do not want a husband who honours me as a queen, if he does not love me as a woman.'.. Elizabeth I
'Thought is the parent of the deed.'.. Thomas Carlyle
'I think fidelity is a good idea - now that I cant walk'.. Sir John Mortimer
'Europe was created by history. America was created by philosophy'.. Margaret Thatcher
'I dont hold with abroad and think foreigners speak English when our backs are turned'.. Quentin Crisp
'Divorce is a game played by lawyers.'.. Cary Grant
'The delicate balance between modesty and conceit is popularity.'.. Max Beerbohm
'Courage is found in unlikely places.'.. J R R Tolkien
'Expectation is the root of all heartache.'.. William Shakespeare
'I hate the idea of causes, and if I had to choose between betraying my country and betraying my friend, I hope I should have the guts to betray my country'.. E M Forster
'To cure the British disease with socialism was like trying to cure leukaemia with leeches'.. Margaret Thatcher
'The greatest pleasure I know is to do a good action by stealth and have it found out by accident.'.. Charles Lamb
'I don't think I am any good. If I thought I was any good, I wouldn't be.'.. John Betjeman
'You will put on a dress of guilt and shoes with broken high ideals.'.. Roger McGough
'Nothing is pleasant that is not spiced with variety.'.. Sir Francis Bacon
'I never saw an ugly thing in my life: for let the form of an object be what it may, - light, shade, and perspective will always make it beautiful'.. John Constable
'A consistent soul believes in destiny, a capricious one in chance.'.. Benjamin Disraeli
'There seem to me to be very few facts, at least ascertainable facts, in politics'.. Robert Peel
'I have frequently gained my first real insight into the character of parents by studying their children'.. Arthur Conan Doyle
'I'll give you my opinion of the human race in a nutshell... their heart's in the right place, but their head is a thoroughly inefficient organ.'.. Somerset Maugham
'Dinner parties are given most in the middle classes by way of revenge'.. William M Thackeray
'I think we have all experienced passion that is not in any sense reasonable.'.. Stephen Fry
'We are not just here to manage capitalism but to change society and to define its finer values'.. Tony Benn
'All war represents a failure of diplomacy.'.. Tony Benn
'Great men are seldom over-scrupulous in the arrangement of their attire.'.. Charles Dickens
'I don't pretend we have all the answers. But the questions are certainly worth thinking about.'.. Arthur C Clarke
'Put three Englishmen on a desert island and within an hour they will have invented a class system'.. Alan Ayckbourn
'People are wrong when they say opera is not what it used to be. It is what it used to be. That is what's wrong with it.'.. Noel Coward
'Let not England forget her precedence of teaching nations how to live'.. John Milton
'I've got a great ambition to die of exhaustion rather than boredom.'.. Thomas Carlyle