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Famous British Quotes
'Evil is unspectacular and always human, and shares our bed and eats at our own table.'.. W H Auden
'No violent extreme endures.'.. Thomas Carlyle
'Lawyers, I suppose, were children once.'.. Charles Lamb
'Dunblane Cathedral - I know not of anything so perfect in its simplicity'.. John Ruskin
'Saw a wedding in the church. It was strange to see what delight we married people have to see these poor fools decoyed into our condition.'.. Samuel Pepys
'I believe in getting in to hot water. It keeps you clean'.. GK Chesterton
'Adapt or perish, now as ever, is nature's inexorable imperative.'.. H G Wells
'In general, pride is at the bottom of all great mistakes.'.. John Ruskin
'You know, I go to the theatre to be entertained. I don’t want to see plays about rape, sodomy and drug addiction...I can get all that at home'.. Peter Cook
'Marriage is a very good thing, but I think it's a mistake to make a habit out of it.'.. Somerset Maugham
'I went window shopping today! I bought four windows.'.. Tommy Cooper
'Never the time and the place and the loved one all together!'.. Robert Browning
'The future is purchased by the present.'.. Samuel Johnson
'We have forty million reasons for failure, but not a single excuse.'.. Rudyard Kipling
'A healthy attitude is contagious but don't wait to catch it from others. Be a carrier'.. Sir Tom Stoppard
'Every man dies. Not every man really lives.'.. William Wallace
'The difference between Socrates and Jesus? The great conscious and the immeasurably great unconscious'.. Thomas Carlyle
'I don't mind how much my Ministers talk, so long as they do what I say'.. Margaret Thatcher
'I am told that I talk in shorthand and then smudge it.'.. J R R Tolkien
'Thieves respect property - they merely wish it to become their property'.. GK Chesterton
'It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent that survives. It is the one that is the most adaptable to change.'.. Charles Darwin
'I have frequently gained my first real insight into the character of parents by studying their children'.. Arthur Conan Doyle
'All that we are not stares back at what we are.'.. W H Auden
'Mad Dogs and Englishmen go out in the midday sun'.. Noel Coward
'Science is but an image of the truth.'.. Sir Francis Bacon
'A mere copier of nature can never produce anything great.'.. Joshua Reynolds
'I dont speak French, I dont speak English, I am from Yorkshire'.. Geoffrey Boycott
'When I was young I thought that money was the most important thing in life; now that I am old I know that it is.'.. Oscar Wilde
'We always love those who admire us; we do not always love those whom we admire.'.. Rupert Brooke
'Charm, in most men and nearly all women, is a decoration.'.. E M Forster