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Famous British Quotes
'A man may be so much of everything that he is nothing of anything.'.. Samuel Johnson
'There are two things no man will admit he cannot do well: drive and make love.'.. Stirling Moss
'What worries you, masters you.'.. John Locke
'It is not an arrogant government that chooses priorities, it's an irresponsible government that fails to choose'.. Tony Blair
'You cannot antagonize and influence at the same time.'.. John Knox
'Everyone who wants to do good to the human race always ends in universal bullying'.. Aldous Huxley
'Although it is not true that all conservatives are stupid people, it is true that most stupid people are conservative'.. John Stuart Mill
'Most people perform well in a crisis - when the spotlight is on them; it's on the Sunday afternoons of this life, when no-one is looking, that the spirit falters.'.. Alan Bennett
'If I wasnt an actor I would probably be a psychopath'.. Terence Stamp
'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
'It is the test of a good religion whether you can joke about it.'.. GK Chesterton
'Cowards die many times before their deaths; the valiant never taste of death but once'.. William Shakespeare
'Our greatest glory consists not in never failing, but in rising every time we fall'.. Oliver Goldsmith
'I never had lunch in Brighton without wanting to take a woman to bed in the afternoon'.. John Osborne
'A State without the means of some change is without the means of its conservation.'.. Edmund Burke
'English winters are like the 1st world war. You start thinking am I going to get to the end of this'.. John Cleese
'There is only one class in the community that thinks more about money than the rich, and that is the poor'.. Oscar Wilde
'It is not reasonable that those who gamble with men's lives should not stake their own.'.. H G Wells
'I think when the full horror of being fifty hits you, you should stay home and have a good cry'.. Alan Bleasdale
'He has sat on the fence so long that the iron has entered his soul.'.. David Lloyd George
'The House of Lords is like a glass of champagne that has stood for five days'.. Clement Attlee
'Anything worth doing is worth overdoing.'.. Mick Jagger
'Dunblane Cathedral - I know not of anything so perfect in its simplicity'.. John Ruskin
'Football is not a matter of Life and Death - its far more important than that'.. Bill Shankly
'As people are walking all the time, in the same spot, a path appears.'.. John Locke
'I always arrive late at the office, but I make up for it by leaving early.'.. Charles Lamb
'Every man dies. Not every man really lives.'.. William Wallace
'To destroy is still the strongest instinct in nature.'.. Max Beerbohm
'I need no dictionary of quotations to remind me that the eyes are the windows of the soul'.. Max Beerbohm
'Corruption is nature's way of restoring our faith in democracy.'.. Peter Ustinov