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Famous British Quotes
'Having children is like having a bowling alley installed in your brain'.. Alan Bleasdale
'It is a cliche that most cliches are true, but then like most cliches, that cliche is untrue'.. Stephen Fry
'The trouble with political jokes is that they get elected'.. Tim Brooke-Taylor
'The media. It sounds like a convention of spiritualists.'.. Sir Tom Stoppard
'Despair is a narcotic. It lulls the mind into indifference.'.. Charlie Chaplin
'Let everyone regulate his conduct... by the golden rule of doing to others as in similar circumstances we would have them do to us, and the path of duty will be clear before him.'.. William Wilberforce
'I sometimes think that the price of liberty is not so much eternal vigilance as eternal dirt'.. George Orwell
'I can only go one way. I've not got a reverse gear.'.. Tony Blair
'Egotism is the source and summary of all faults and miseries.'.. Thomas Carlyle
'If I cannot understand my friend's silence, I will never get to understand his words.'.. Enoch Powell
'The mark of a good action is that it appears inevitable in retrospect.'.. Robert Louis Stevenson
'Actors search for rejection. If they don't get it they reject themselves.'.. Charlie Chaplin
'From a drop of water a logician could infer the possibility of an Atlantic or a Niagara without having seen or heard of one or the other.'.. Arthur Conan Doyle
'I feel sure that no girl would go to the altar if she knew all.'.. Queen Victoria
'The whole annual produce of the land and labour of every country...naturally divides itself into three parts; the rent of the land, the wages of labour, and the profits of stock'.. Adam Smith
'Never make a defense or an apology until you are accused.'.. Charles I
'To see a world in a grain of sand and heaven in a wild flower Hold infinity in the palms of your hand and eternity in an hour'.. William Blake
'You can give without loving, but you can never love without giving.'.. Robert Louis Stevenson
'Despair is the conclusion of fools.'.. Benjamin Disraeli
'There is not in nature, a thing that makes man so deformed, so beastly, as doth intemperate anger.'.. Alan Bleasdale
'Pleasure and action make the hours seem short.'.. William Shakespeare
'There are a terrible lot of lies going about the world, and the worst of it is that half of them are true.'.. Winston Churchill
'A precedent embalms a principle.'.. Benjamin Disraeli
'Woman begins by resisting a man's advances and ends by blocking his retreat.'.. Oscar Wilde
'Nothing builds self-esteem and self-confidence like accomplishment'.. Thomas Carlyle
'There's only room for one bigmouth in my organisation, and that's me.'.. Alan Sugar
'Life is wasted on the living'.. Douglas Adams
'Death destroys a man, but the idea of death saves him.'.. E M Forster
'I've only slept with men I've been married to. How many women can make that claim?'.. Elizabeth Taylor
'A clear and innocent conscience fears nothing.'.. Elizabeth I