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Famous British Quotes
'Every time you liberate a woman, you liberate a man'.. Emmeline Pankhurst
'Television enables you to be entertained in your home by people you wouldn't have in your home.'.. David Frost
'Silence is as deep as eternity, speech a shallow as time.'.. Thomas Carlyle
'Anxiety is the hand maiden of creativity.'.. T S Eliot
'Integrity is so perishable in the summer months of success.'.. Vanessa Redgrave
'A faith is something you die for, a doctrine is something you kill for. There is all the difference in the world'.. Tony Benn
'And the White Album is important to me for different reasons. One - I had left the band on the White Album.'.. Ringo Starr
'History will see advertising as one of the real evil things of our time. It is stimulating people constantly to want things, want this, want that.'.. Malcolm Muggeridge
'Gentlemen, when the enemy is committed to a mistake we must not interrupt him too soon'.. Horatio Nelson
'Concentrate all your thoughts upon the work at hand. The sun's rays do not burn until brought to a focus.'.. Alexander Graham Bell
'Unlimited power corrupts the possessor.'.. William Pitt (The Younger)
'It's no use crying over spilt summits.'.. Harold Macmillan
'Death, so called, is a thing which makes men weep, And yet a third of life is passed in sleep'.. Lord Byron
'Great things are done when men and mountains meet.'.. William Blake
'There is no real wealth but the labor of man.'.. Percy Bysshe Shelley
'What loneliness is more lonely than distrust?'.. George Eliot
'You will be better advised to watch what we do instead of what we say.'.. A A Milne
'At night, when the curtains are drawn and the fire flickers, my books attain a collective dignity.'.. E M Forster
'Those who have no hope pass their old age shrouded with an inward gloom'.. Wilfred Owen
'He that gives good advice, builds with one hand; he that gives good counsel and example, builds with both'.. Sir Francis Bacon
'Subtlety may deceive you; integrity never will.'.. Oliver Cromwell
'Breed is stronger than pasture.'.. George Eliot
'Fertilizer does no good in a heap, but a little spread around works miracles all over.'.. Richard Sheridan
'Proof that God has an odd sense of humour - after inventing Haute Cuisine he gave it to the French'.. A A Gill
'To be blind is not miserable; not to be able to bear blindness, that is miserable'.. John Milton
'I chose my wife, as she did her wedding gown, for qualities that would wear well'.. Oliver Goldsmith
'I do detest everything which is not perfectly mutual.'.. Lord Byron
'Man hands on misery to man. It deepens like a coastal shelf. Get out as early as you can, and don't have any kids yourself'.. Philip Larkin
'It is an old maxim of mine that when you have excluded the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.'.. Arthur Conan Doyle
'The news is always bad, even when it sounds good'.. Aldous Huxley