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Famous British Quotes
'Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.'.. George Bernard Shaw
'A little sincerity is a dangerous thing, and a great deal of it is absolutely fatal'.. Oscar Wilde
'Great literature should do some good to the reader: must quicken his perception though dull, and sharpen his discrimination though blunt, and mellow the rawness of his personal opinions'.. A E Housman
'Adventure is not outside man; it is within.'.. George Eliot
'Eternity's a terrible thought. I mean, where's it all going to end?'.. Sir Tom Stoppard
'The palace is not safe when the cottage is not happy.'.. Benjamin Disraeli
'To get a job where the only thing you have to do in your career is to make people laugh-well, it's the best job in the world'.. Ronnie Barker
'All men are liable to error; and most men are, in many points, by passion or interest, under temptation to it.'.. John Locke
'I work for a Government I despise for ends I think criminal.'.. John Maynard Keynes
'We build too many walls and not enough bridges.'.. Isaac Newton
'There is a wisdom of the head, and a wisdom of the heart.'.. Charles Dickens
'To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only meaning of life.'.. Robert Louis Stevenson
'Every time you liberate a woman, you liberate a man'.. Emmeline Pankhurst
'It is not reasonable that those who gamble with men's lives should not stake their own.'.. H G Wells
'Pessimist: One who, when he has the choice of two evils, chooses both'.. Oscar Wilde
'Fame often makes a writer vain, but seldom makes him proud.'.. W H Auden
'No one does anything from a single motive.'.. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
'The Welsh are all actors. It's only the bad ones who become professional.'.. Richard Burton
'A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul.'.. George Bernard Shaw
'Not where I breathe, but where I love, I live; Not where I love, but where I am, I die'.. Robert Southey
'I have seen great intolerance shown in support of tolerance.'.. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
'Never hold discussions with the monkey when the organ grinder is in the room.'.. Winston Churchill
'My wife is a sex object - every time I ask for sex, she objects.'.. Les Dawson
'The courage we desire and prize is not the courage to die decently, but to live manfully'.. Thomas Carlyle
'Hope is a good breakfast, but it is a bad supper.'.. Sir Francis Bacon
'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
'Don't talk to me about atrocities in war; all war is an atrocity.'.. Lord Kitchener
'I never had lunch in Brighton without wanting to take a woman to bed in the afternoon'.. John Osborne
'Accursed be he that first invented war.'.. Christopher Marlowe
'I refuse to spend my life worrying about what I eat. There is no pleasure worth forgoing just for an extra three years in the geriatric ward.'.. Sir John Mortimer