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Famous British Quotes
'I should like to say that good batsman are born, not made; but my long experience comes up before me, and tells me that it is not so.'.. W G Grace
'You cannot antagonize and influence at the same time.'.. John Knox
'The palace is not safe when the cottage is not happy.'.. Benjamin Disraeli
'The truth is really an ambition which is beyond us.'.. Peter Ustinov
'It is better to live rich than to die rich.'.. Samuel Johnson
'Understand that sexuality is as wide as the sea. Understand that your morality is not law'.. Derek Jarman
'If a farmer fills his barn with grain, he gets mice. If he leaves it empty, he gets actors'.. Walter Scott
'Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point.'.. C S Lewis
'It's not so much about what you ask as what you don't ask.'.. Michael Parkinson
'The fact that logic cannot satisfy us awakens an almost insatiable hunger for the irrational.'.. A N Wilson
'Who, being loved, is poor?'.. Oscar Wilde
'Compromise is the best and cheapest lawyer.'.. Robert Louis Stevenson
'All we need to make us really happy is something to be enthusiastic about.'.. Charles Kingsley
'Childhood is measured out by sounds and smells and sights, before the dark hour of reason grows.'.. John Betjeman
'There are books of which the backs and covers are by far the best parts.'.. Charles Dickens
'Golf is so popular simply because it is the best game in the world at which to be bad.'.. A A Milne
'It's all right letting yourself go, as long as you can get yourself back.'.. Mick Jagger
'I don't think Henry Kissinger would have lasted 48 hours at Old Trafford.'.. Tommy Docherty
'Nothing that is morally wrong can be politically right.'.. W E Gladstone
'A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul.'.. George Bernard Shaw
'Twin-sister of Religion, Selfishness.'.. Percy Bysshe Shelley
'Beware of the man who does not return your blow: he neither forgives you nor allows you to forgive yourself'.. George Bernard Shaw
'There are some ideas so wrong that only a very intelligent person could believe in them'.. George Orwell
'The greatest good you can do for another is not just to share your riches but to reveal to him his own.'.. Benjamin Disraeli
'Saints should always be judged guilty until they are proved innocent'.. George Orwell
'We know what we are, but know not what we may be.'.. William Shakespeare
'Ale, man, ale's the stuff to drink for fellows whom it hurts to think.'.. A E Housman
'The man who can dominate a London dinner-table can dominate the world'.. Oscar Wilde
'A good book is the precious lifeblood of a master spirit.'.. John Milton
'Education begins the gentleman, but reading, good company and reflection must finish him.'.. John Locke