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Famous British Quotes
'All men would be tyrants if they could.'.. Daniel Defoe
'Man has almost constant occasion for the help of his brethren, and it is in vain for him to expect it from their benevolence only.'.. Adam Smith
'A public schoolboy must be acceptable at a dance and invaluable in a shipwreck'.. Alan Bennett
'They talk of a man betraying his country, his friends, his sweetheart. There must be a moral bond first. All a man can betray is his conscience.'.. Joseph Conrad
'I tell my children to avoid theatre and go into cinema and TV.'.. Peter O’Toole
'Those who don't believe in magic will never find it'.. Roald Dahl
'Anything for the quick life, as the man said when he took the situation at the lighthouse'.. Charles Dickens
'In a completely sane world, madness is the only freedom!'.. James G Ballard
'All fantasy should have a solid base in reality.'.. Max Beerbohm
'Gentlemen, when the enemy is committed to a mistake we must not interrupt him too soon'.. Horatio Nelson
'All slang is metaphor, and all metaphor is poetry.'.. GK Chesterton
'This lady is not for turning.'.. Margaret Thatcher
'A man who does not think for himself does not think at all.'.. Oscar Wilde
'There is no education like adversity.'.. Benjamin Disraeli
'The most happy marriage I can picture or imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman'.. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
'Rolf Harris is a difficult man to hate but that shouldnt stop us trying'.. A A Gill
'The nation that secures control of the air will ultimately control the world.'.. Alexander Graham Bell
'Old Professors never die, they just lose their faculties.'.. Stephen Fry
'Asia is not going to be civilized after the methods of the West. There is too much Asia and she is too old.'.. Rudyard Kipling
'No man ever became great or good except through many and great mistakes.'.. W E Gladstone
'To destroy is still the strongest instinct in nature.'.. Max Beerbohm
'It took me years to understand that words are often as important as experience, because words make experience last'.. William Morris
'A clear and innocent conscience fears nothing.'.. Elizabeth I
'Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons'.. Bertrand Russell
'A belief is like a guillotine, just as heavy, just as light.'.. David Hockney
'Nothing is so contagious as enthusiasm.'.. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
'A lot of football success is in the mind. You must believe you are the best and then make sure that you are.'.. Bill Shankly
'A fanatic is a man who consciously over compensates a secret doubt.'.. Aldous Huxley
'Looking back at all the people I have insulted, I am mildly surprised that I am still allowed to exist.'.. Auberon Waugh
'Blessed is he who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed.'.. Jonathan Swift