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Famous British Quotes
'My reputation grows with every failure.'.. George Bernard Shaw
'I think it is the responsibility of a citizen of any country to say what he thinks.'.. Harold Pinter
'Paganism is infectious, more infectious than diphtheria or piety.'.. E M Forster
'A man who trusts nobody is apt to be the kind of man nobody trusts'.. Harold Macmillan
''Tis love that makes the world go round'.. Charles Dickens
'A man's friendships are one of the best measures of his worth.'.. Charles Darwin
'Here is my first principle of foreign policy: good government at home'.. W E Gladstone
'In the old days men had the rack. Now they have the Press'.. Oscar Wilde
'All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.'.. Winston Churchill
'Politics is the art of making the inevitable seem planned'.. Quentin Crisp
'I've got a great ambition to die of exhaustion rather than boredom.'.. Thomas Carlyle
'I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite'.. GK Chesterton
'If everyone demanded peace instead of another television set, then there'd be peace.'.. John Lennon
'Contrariwise, if it was so, it might be; and if it were so, it would be; but as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic.'.. Lewis Carroll
'People are wrong when they say opera is not what it used to be. It is what it used to be. That is what's wrong with it.'.. Noel Coward
'Fear is the mother of foresight.'.. Thomas Hardy
'Pleasure and action make the hours seem short.'.. William Shakespeare
'Don't talk to me about atrocities in war; all war is an atrocity.'.. Lord Kitchener
'Successful investing is anticipating the anticipations of others.'.. John Maynard Keynes
'We are not just here to manage capitalism but to change society and to define its finer values'.. Tony Benn
'God hangs the greatest weights upon the smallest wires.'.. Sir Francis Bacon
'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
'When one is writing a novel in the first person, one must be that person.'.. Daphne du Maurier
'The age of chivalry is past. Bores have succeeded to dragons.'.. Charles Dickens
'The most precious things in speech are pauses.'.. Ralph Richardson
'Friendship is certainly the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love'.. Jane Austen
'Dunblane Cathedral - I know not of anything so perfect in its simplicity'.. John Ruskin
'Gentlemen, when the enemy is committed to a mistake we must not interrupt him too soon'.. Horatio Nelson
'Experience teaches only the teachable.'.. Aldous Huxley
'There is no such thing as liberty. You only change one sort of domination for another. All we can do is to choose our master.'.. D H Lawrence