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Famous British Quotes
'The wisest prophets make sure of the event first.'.. Horace Walpole
'Confidence is a plant of slow growth in an aged heart.'.. William Pitt (The Younger)
'No distance of place or lapse of time can lessen the friendship of those who are thoroughly persuaded of each other's worth'.. Robert Southey
'Nature uses as little as possible of anything'.. Alan Bleasdale
'Familiar acts are beautiful through love.'.. Percy Bysshe Shelley
'So much of left-wing thought is a kind of playing with fire by people who don't even know that fire is hot'.. George Orwell
'One who does not know when to die, does not know how to live.'.. John Ruskin
'The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost.'.. GK Chesterton
'The trouble with British Rail passengers is that they think the railways are being run for their benefit'.. Jeremy Clarkson
'Good order is the foundation of all things.'.. Edmund Burke
'Civilisation is the distance man has put between himself and his excreta'.. Brian Aldiss
'Now that I know what I want, I don't have to hold on to it quite so much.'.. Lucien Freud
'Intelligence is the ability to adapt to change.'.. Stephen Hawking
'People who say it cannot be done should not interrupt those who are doing it'.. George Bernard Shaw
'It may be the cock that crows, but it is the hen that lays the eggs.'.. Margaret Thatcher
'The Beduin could not look for God within him: he was too sure that he was within God.'.. T E Lawrence
'I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat.'.. Winston Churchill
'Understand that sexuality is as wide as the sea. Understand that your morality is not law'.. Derek Jarman
'That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons of history.'.. Aldous Huxley
'Childhood is measured out by sounds and smells and sights, before the dark hour of reason grows.'.. John Betjeman
'By gnawing through a dike, even a rat may drown a nation.'.. Edmund Burke
'A prudent question is one-half of wisdom.'.. Sir Francis Bacon
'You can always count on Americans to do the right thing - after they've tried everything else.'.. Winston Churchill
'Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught'.. Oscar Wilde
'If we do not maintain justice, justice will not maintain us.'.. Sir Francis Bacon
'I have a face like the behind of an elephant.'.. Charles Laughton
'Genius not only diagnoses the situation but supplies the answers.'.. Robert Graves
'You have no idea what a poor opinion I have of myself and how little I deserve it'.. W S Gilbert
'Chester pleases my fancy more than any other place I ever saw'.. James Boswell
'Heresy is another word for freedom of thought.'.. Graham Greene