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Famous British Quotes
'Authority has every reason to fear the skeptic, for authority can rarely survive in the face of doubt'.. Vita Sackville-West
'The trouble with orgies is that you have to spend so much time holding your stomach in'.. Sir John Mortimer
'It is not real work unless you would rather be doing something else.'.. J M Barrie
'The future is purchased by the present.'.. Samuel Johnson
'Arrange whatever pieces come your way.'.. Virginia Woolf
'All the people like us are we, and everyone else is They.'.. Rudyard Kipling
'The poetry of the earth is never dead.'.. John Keats
'Subtlety may deceive you; integrity never will.'.. Oliver Cromwell
'We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.'.. Winston Churchill
'Spoon feeding in the long run teaches us nothing but the shape of the spoon.'.. E M Forster
'God never made His work for man to mend.'.. John Dryden
'Lies are sufficient to breed opinion, and opinion brings on substance'.. Sir Francis Bacon
'Good order is the foundation of all things.'.. Edmund Burke
'No minister ever stood, or could stand, against public opinion.'.. Robert Peel
'Advertising is legalized lying.'.. H G Wells
'He who would search for pearls must dive below.'.. John Dryden
'Blessed is the influence of one true, loving human soul on another.'.. George Eliot
'There are some ideas so wrong that only a very intelligent person could believe in them'.. George Orwell
'In London, love and scandal are considered the best sweeteners of tea.'.. John Osborne
'One of the most important days of my life was when I learned to ride a bicycle'.. Michael Palin
'Old men are dangerous: it doesn't matter to them what is going to happen to the world'.. George Bernard Shaw
'Dorchester - A very agreeable town to live in'.. Daniel Defoe
'Other nations use 'force'; we Britons alone use 'Might'.'.. Evelyn Waugh
'He was one of those men who possess almost every gift, except the gift of the power to use them.'.. Charles Kingsley
'Well, my wife and I were married in a toilet - it was a marriage of convenience!'.. Tommy Cooper
'It is not good to cross the bridge before you get to it.'.. Judi Dench
'Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other.'.. Edmund Burke
'No benevolent man ever lost altogether the fruits of his benevolence.'.. Adam Smith
'Civilization is the making of civil persons.'.. John Ruskin
'People always make war when they say they love peace.'.. D H Lawrence