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Famous British Quotes
'You never know what is enough unless you know what is more than enough.'.. William Blake
'It's so easy for propaganda to work, and dissent to be mocked.'.. Harold Pinter
'Politics is the art of making the inevitable seem planned'.. Quentin Crisp
'To know all is not to forgive all. It is to despise everybody'.. Quentin Crisp
'I would rather trust a woman's instinct than a man's reason.'.. Stanley Baldwin
'A good gulp of hot whiskey at bedtime - it's not very scientific but it helps'.. Alexander Fleming
'Love is blind.'.. Geoffrey Chaucer
'Agitation is the marshalling of the conscience of a nation to mold its laws.'.. Robert Peel
'A gentleman is one who never hurts anyone's feelings unintentionally'.. Oscar Wilde
'The habit of religion is oppressive, an easy way out of thought.'.. Peter Ustinov
'Money can't buy you happiness but it does bring you a more pleasant form of misery.'.. Spike Milligan
'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
'Soul meets soul on lovers' lips.'.. Percy Bysshe Shelley
'Somebody said to me, 'But the Beatles were anti-materialistic.' That's a huge myth. John and I literally used to sit down and say, 'Now, let's write a swimming pool.''.. Paul McCartney
'Curiosity is one of the most permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous intellect'.. Samuel Johnson
'Idleness, like kisses, to be sweet must be stolen.'.. Jerome K Jerome
'All our discontents about what we want appeared to spring from the want of thankfulness for what we have.'.. Daniel Defoe
'There is nothing constant in this world but inconsistency.'.. Jonathan Swift
'The only statistics you can trust are the ones who can falsify yourself'.. Winston Churchill
'Saw a wedding in the church. It was strange to see what delight we married people have to see these poor fools decoyed into our condition.'.. Samuel Pepys
'He that undervalues himself will undervalue others, and he that undervalues others will oppress them'.. Samuel Johnson
'Remember that you are an Englishman, and have consequently won first prize in the lottery of life.'.. Cecil Rhodes
'Success - keeping your mind awake and your desire asleep.'.. Walter Scott
'Any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in Mankind; And therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee.'.. John Donne
'Liberty must be limited in order to be possessed.'.. Edmund Burke
'The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit.'.. Somerset Maugham
'History develops, art stands still.'.. E M Forster
'Life is made of ever so many partings welded together.'.. Charles Dickens
'Fertilizer does no good in a heap, but a little spread around works miracles all over.'.. Richard Sheridan
'A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing'.. George Bernard Shaw