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Famous British Quotes
'I see music as one language. If one musical form eats its own tail, it dies. So it needs to be a mongrel, it needs to be hybridised.'.. Sting
'Five minutes on even the nicest mountain is awfully long'.. W H Auden
'No one can read with profit that which he cannot learn to read with pleasure.'.. Thomas Hardy
'I am told that I talk in shorthand and then smudge it.'.. J R R Tolkien
'A play should give you something to think about. When I see a play and understand it the first time, then I know it can't be much good.'.. T S Eliot
'If there's no money in poetry, neither is there poetry in money.'.. Robert Graves
'Men do less than they ought, unless they do all that they can.'.. Thomas Carlyle
'Our own heart, and not other men's opinions form our true honor.'.. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
'I saw six men kicking and punching the mother-in-law. My neighbour said 'Are you going to help?' I said 'No, six should be enough'.. Les Dawson
'All sins tend to be addictive, and the terminal point of addiction is damnation.'.. W H Auden
'Happiness is the sublime moment when you get out of your corsets at night'.. Joyce Grenfell
'Motion is tranquility.'.. Stirling Moss
'An ounce of mother is worth a pound of clergy.'.. Rudyard Kipling
'He who rejects change is the architect of decay. The only human institution which rejects progress is the cemetery'.. Harold Wilson
'We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another'.. Jonathan Swift
'Love-making is an art which must be studied.'.. Ivor Novello
'Education begins the gentleman, but reading, good company and reflection must finish him.'.. John Locke
'It may be the cock that crows, but it is the hen that lays the eggs.'.. Margaret Thatcher
'It is widely held that too much wine will dull a man's desire. Indeed it will in a dull man'.. John Osborne
'You write with ease to show your breeding, but easy writing's curst hard reading.'.. Richard Sheridan
'The remedy is worse than the disease.'.. Sir Francis Bacon
'The overall impression from the British is that they love France but would prefer it if the French didn't live there'.. Sir John Mortimer
'There seem to me to be very few facts, at least ascertainable facts, in politics'.. Robert Peel
'The greatest tragedy in mankind's entire history may be the hijacking of morality by religion'.. Arthur C Clarke
'Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.'.. Bertrand Russell
'Eating words has never given me indigestion.'.. Winston Churchill
'Every new opinion, at its starting, is precisely in a minority of one.'.. Thomas Carlyle
'One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes a revolution in order to establish a dictatorship'.. George Orwell
'I don’t understand bus lanes. Why do poor people have to get to places quicker than I do?'.. Jeremy Clarkson
'You and I come by road or rail, but economists travel on infrastructure'.. Margaret Thatcher