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Famous British Quotes
'Better to be without logic than without feeling.'.. Charlotte Bronte
'What though youth gave love and roses, Age still leaves us friends and wine.'.. Thomas More
'A professor is someone who talks in someone else's sleep.'.. W H Auden
'Bournemouth is one of the few English towns that one can safely call 'her''.. John Betjeman
'It is impossible to enjoy idling thoroughly unless one has plenty of work to do'.. Jerome K Jerome
'The greatest man is he who forms the taste of a nation; the next greatest is he who corrupts it.'.. Joshua Reynolds
'Other nations use 'force'; we Britons alone use 'Might'.'.. Evelyn Waugh
'I love argument, I love debate. I don't expect anyone just to sit there and agree with me, that's not their job'.. Margaret Thatcher
'No man was ever so completely skilled in the conduct of life, as not to receive new information from age and experience.'.. Jonathan Swift
'The more we study the more we discover our ignorance.'.. Percy Bysshe Shelley
'The true secret of happiness lies in taking a genuine interest in all the details of daily life.'.. William Morris
'No benevolent man ever lost altogether the fruits of his benevolence.'.. Adam Smith
'To me there has never been a higher source of earthly honor or distinction than that connected with advances in science'.. Isaac Newton
'No man is regular in his attendance at the House of Commons until he is married.'.. Benjamin Disraeli
'I didn't come into politics to change the Labour Party. I came into politics to change the country'.. Tony Blair
'There seem to me to be very few facts, at least ascertainable facts, in politics'.. Robert Peel
'A fishing rod is a stick with a hook at one end and a fool at the other'.. Samuel Johnson
'One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes a revolution in order to establish a dictatorship'.. George Orwell
'History, a distillation of rumour.'.. Thomas Carlyle
'Pain is no evil, unless it conquers us.'.. Charles Kingsley
'What happens in the heart simply happens.'.. Ted Hughes
'Subtlety may deceive you; integrity never will.'.. Oliver Cromwell
'A ruffled mind makes a restless pillow.'.. Charlotte Bronte
'Poets don't have an 'audience'. They're talking to a single person all the time'.. Robert Graves
'A week is a long time in politics.'.. Harold Wilson
'There are some men who are improved by drinking; as there are fruits that are not good until they are rotten.'.. Samuel Johnson
'This is the first age that's ever paid much attention to the future, which is a little ironic since we may not have one'.. Arthur C Clarke
'Nothing builds self-esteem and self-confidence like accomplishment'.. Thomas Carlyle
'There are some things only intellectuals are crazy enough to believe'.. George Orwell
'Do noble things, not dream them all day long.'.. Charles Kingsley