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Famous British Quotes
'The fashionable woman wears clothes. The clothes don't wear her.'.. Mary Quant
'We first make our habits, and then our habits make us.'.. John Dryden
'Words easy to be understood do often hit the mark; when high and learned ones do only pierce the air'.. John Bunyan
'Europe's the mayonnaise, but America supplies the good old lobster.'.. D H Lawrence
'Diplomacy, is the art of letting somebody else have your way.'.. David Frost
'Why buy a book when you can join a library'.. Ricky Gervais
'I dont believe in God but I am very interested in Her'.. Arthur C Clarke
'Bexhill on Sea is a peck on the cheek: Hastings is a lolloping tongue down the throat'.. Jo Brand
'Only in Britain could it be thought a defect to be too clever by half. The probability is that too many people are too stupid by three-quarters.'.. John Major
'A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject.'.. Winston Churchill
'Heresies are experiments in man's unsatisfied search for truth.'.. H G Wells
'There is no such thing as the pursuit of happiness, but there is the discovery of joy'.. Joyce Grenfell
'Believe there is a great power silently working all things for good, behave yourself and never mind the rest.'.. Beatrix Potter
'Well may your heart believe the truths I tell; 'Tis virtue makes the bliss, where'er we dwell.'.. Wilkie Collins
'If I were to choose where I was to die it would be in the herbaceous border'.. Miriam Stoppard
'Men may be popular without being ambitious, but there is hardly an ambitious man who does not try to be popular.'.. Lord North
'It is a mistake to look too far ahead. Only one link of the chain of destiny can be handled at a time'.. Winston Churchill
'The human species, according to the best theory I can form of it, is composed of two distinct races, the men who borrow and the men who lend.'.. Charles Lamb
'There will always be an England even if its in Hollywood'.. Bob Hope
'It's easier to replace a dead man than a good picture.'.. George Bernard Shaw
'Dare to be honest and fear no labour.'.. Robert Burns
'Animals are my friends... and I don't eat my friends.'.. George Bernard Shaw
'We know what happens to people who stay in the middle of the road. They get run down.'.. Aneurin Bevan
'Every time you liberate a woman, you liberate a man'.. Emmeline Pankhurst
'Conviction is worthless unless it is converted into conduct.'.. Thomas Carlyle
'Life’s never a postcard of life, is it? It never feels like how you’d want it to look'.. Russell Brand
'All that I desire to point out is the general principle that life imitates art far more than art imitates life'.. Oscar Wilde
'New opinions are always suspected, and usually opposed, without anyother reason but because they are not already common.'.. John Locke
'Come forth into the light of things, let nature be your teacher.'.. William Wordsworth
'Genius not only diagnoses the situation but supplies the answers.'.. Robert Graves