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Famous British Quotes
'Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.'.. George Bernard Shaw
'I have two ambitions in life: one is to drink every pub dry, the other is to sleep with every woman on earth.'.. Oliver Reed
'It is not an arrogant government that chooses priorities, it's an irresponsible government that fails to choose'.. Tony Blair
'The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost.'.. GK Chesterton
'To truly laugh, you must be able to take your pain, and play with it!'.. Charlie Chaplin
'In London, love and scandal are considered the best sweeteners of tea.'.. John Osborne
'The palace is not safe when the cottage is not happy.'.. Benjamin Disraeli
'Fortitude is the marshal of thought, the armor of the will, and the fort of reason.'.. Sir Francis Bacon
'I think to be oversensitive about cliches is like being oversensitive about table manners.'.. Evelyn Waugh
'The British tourist is always happy abroad as long as the natives are waiters'.. Robert Morley
'The trouble with political jokes is that they get elected'.. Tim Brooke-Taylor
'Poverty of course is no disgrace, but it is damned annoying.'.. William Pitt (The Younger)
'Our greatest glory consists not in never failing, but in rising every time we fall'.. Oliver Goldsmith
'I am one of those who would rather sink with faith than swim without it.'.. Stanley Baldwin
'A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject.'.. Winston Churchill
'America: It's like Britain, only with buttons.'.. Ringo Starr
'You will put on a dress of guilt and shoes with broken high ideals.'.. Roger McGough
'Death is the sound of distant thunder at a picnic.'.. W H Auden
'History is a race between education and catastrophe.'.. H G Wells
'Society has always seemed to demand a little more from human beings than it will get in practice'.. George Orwell
'No benevolent man ever lost altogether the fruits of his benevolence.'.. Adam Smith
'In politics, guts is all'.. Barbara Castle
'A desperate disease requires a dangerous remedy'.. Guy Fawkes
'Public opinion is a compound of folly, weakness, prejudice, wrong feeling, right feeling, obstinacy, and newspaper paragraphs'.. Robert Peel
'No one rises so high as he who knows not whither he is going.'.. Oliver Cromwell
'Reflect upon your present blessings of which every man has many - not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some.'.. Charles Dickens
'A loving heart is the beginning of all knowledge.'.. Thomas Carlyle
'A good gulp of hot whiskey at bedtime - it's not very scientific but it helps'.. Alexander Fleming
'Anything worth doing is worth overdoing.'.. Mick Jagger
'Advertising is legalized lying.'.. H G Wells