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Famous British Quotes
'Britain's most useful role is somewhere between bee and dinosaur.'.. Harold Macmillan
'What is reading, but silent conversation.'.. Charles Lamb
'If I have seen further than others, it is by standing upon the shoulders of giants'.. Isaac Newton
'Justice delayed is justice denied.'.. W E Gladstone
'I would much prefer to be a judge than a coal miner because of the absence of falling coal'.. Peter Cook
'Mankind is not likely to salvage civilization unless he can evolve a system of good and evil which is independent of heaven and hell'.. George Orwell
'Incongruity is the mainspring of laughter.'.. Max Beerbohm
'Quality is never an accident. It is always the result of intelligent effort.'.. John Ruskin
'The news is always bad, even when it sounds good'.. Aldous Huxley
'Civilization is the making of civil persons.'.. John Ruskin
'Always live in the ugliest house on the street - then you don't have to look at it.'.. David Hockney
'Like the measles, love is most dangerous when it comes late in life.'.. Lord Byron
'When people tell you how young you look, they are telling you how old you are.'.. Cary Grant
'Suspense is worse than disappointment.'.. Robert Burns
'There is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact.'.. Arthur Conan Doyle
'I think if Keith Moon was here today and you asked him to recall most of his early life or most of his life, he wouldn't be able to recall it.'.. Roger Daltrey
'The block of granite which was an obstacle in the pathway of the weak, became a stepping-stone in the pathway of the strong.'.. Thomas Carlyle
'Lets face it Football is a game for commoners. As soon as you get a mortgage you start to like Tennis'.. Jonathan Ross
'There are grounds for cautious optimism that we may now be near the end of the search for the ultimate laws of nature.'.. Stephen Hawking
'Our own heart, and not other men's opinions form our true honor.'.. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
'No advance in wealth, no softening of manners, no reform or revolution has ever brought human equality a millimeter nearer'.. George Orwell
'A cricketer's life is a life of splendid freedom, healthy effort, endless variety, and delightful good fellowship'.. W G Grace
'A team effort is a lot of people doing what I say'.. Michael Winner
'A woman can be anything the man who loves her would have her be.'.. J M Barrie
'Other nations use 'force'; we Britons alone use 'Might'.'.. Evelyn Waugh
'I never deliberately set out to shock, but when people don't walk out of my plays I think there is something wrong.'.. John Osborne
'Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other.'.. Edmund Burke
'Liberty is not merely a privilege to be conferred; it is a habit to be acquired'.. David Lloyd George
'The quickest way of ending a war is to lose it.'.. George Orwell
'Justice and judgment lie often a world apart.'.. Emmeline Pankhurst