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Famous British Quotes
'Don't talk to me about a man's being able to talk sense; everyone can talk sense. Can he talk nonsense?'.. William Pitt (The Younger)
'Only in Britain could it be thought a defect to be too clever by half. The probability is that too many people are too stupid by three-quarters.'.. John Major
'Jealousy is the jaundice of the soul.'.. John Dryden
'If we open a quarrel between past and present, we shall find that we have lost the future'.. Winston Churchill
'This is the first age that's ever paid much attention to the future, which is a little ironic since we may not have one'.. Arthur C Clarke
'If you want to eat well in England, eat three breakfasts.'.. Somerset Maugham
'How long was I in the army? Five foot eleven.'.. Spike Milligan
'If you have men who will only come if they know there is a good road, I don't want them. I want men who will come if there is no road at all.'.. David Livingstone
'Don't accept the old order. Get rid of it.'.. John Lydon (Johnny Rotten)
'Never argue; repeat your assertion.'.. Robert Owen
'Nature uses as little as possible of anything'.. Alan Bleasdale
'The finest landscape is improved by a good Pub in the foreground'.. Samuel Johnson
'A wonderful fact to reflect upon, that every human creature is constituted to be that profound secret and mystery to every other.'.. Charles Dickens
'Glasgow - The beautifullest little city I have seen in Britain'.. Daniel Defoe
'I venture to say no war can be long carried on against the will of the people.'.. Edmund Burke
'Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable'.. Sir Francis Bacon
'When thinking about companions gone, we feel ourselves doubly alone.'.. Walter Scott
'Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other.'.. Edmund Burke
'Age is a very high price to pay for maturity.'.. Sir Tom Stoppard
'Every man at the bottom of his heart believes that he is a born detective.'.. John Buchan
'Most people do not pray; they only beg.'.. George Bernard Shaw
'Other nations use 'force'; we Britons alone use 'Might'.'.. Evelyn Waugh
'The greatest man is he who forms the taste of a nation; the next greatest is he who corrupts it.'.. Joshua Reynolds
'A clear and innocent conscience fears nothing.'.. Elizabeth I
'There are two freedoms - the false, where a man is free to do what he likes; the true, where he is free to do what he ought.'.. Charles Kingsley
'All mankind... being all equal and independent, no one ought to harm another in his life, health, liberty or possessions.'.. John Locke
'It is the heart always that sees, before the head can see.'.. Thomas Carlyle
'Every man dies. Not every man really lives.'.. William Wallace
'Never forget that only dead fish swim with the stream.'.. Malcolm Muggeridge
'What is easy is seldom excellent.'.. Samuel Johnson