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Famous British Quotes
'History is written by the victors.'.. Winston Churchill
'In order that people may be happy in their work, these three things are needed: They must be fit for it. They must not do too much of it. And they must have a sense of success in it.'.. John Ruskin
'Don't talk to me about atrocities in war; all war is an atrocity.'.. Lord Kitchener
'Difficulties mastered are opportunities won.'.. Winston Churchill
'Life is ours to be spent, not to be saved.'.. D H Lawrence
'To do a great right do a little wrong.'.. William Shakespeare
'All autobiography is self-indulgent.'.. Daphne du Maurier
'It's very hard to be a gentleman and a writer.'.. Somerset Maugham
'A wise man should have money in his head, but not in his heart.'.. Jonathan Swift
'How very little can be done under the spirit of fear.'.. Florence Nightingale
'A remarkable thing about Shakespeare is that he is really very good in spite of all the people who say he is very good'.. Robert Graves
'I saw six men kicking and punching the mother-in-law. My neighbour said 'Are you going to help?' I said 'No, six should be enough'.. Les Dawson
'Elegance is inferior to virtue.'.. Mary Shelley
'The only way of catching a train I have ever discovered is to miss the train before'.. GK Chesterton
'All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.'.. Winston Churchill
'We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience'.. George Bernard Shaw
'I'm not afraid of dying I just don't want to be there when it happens.'.. Spike Milligan
'I am easily satisfied with the very best.'.. Winston Churchill
'A Royal Commission is a broody hen sitting on a china egg.'.. Michael Foot
'War would end if the dead could return.'.. Stanley Baldwin
'Death is just life's next big adventure.'.. J K Rowling
'The great advantage of being in a rut is that when one is in a rut one knows exactly where one is'.. Alan Bennett
'When people tell you how young you look, they are telling you how old you are.'.. Cary Grant
'There is always time for failure.'.. Sir John Mortimer
'Things which do not require effort of some sort are seldom worth having'.. Ivor Novello
'In every American there is an air of incorrigible innocence, which seems to conceal a diabolical cunning.'.. A E Housman
'In trouble to be troubled, Is to have your trouble doubled.'.. Daniel Defoe
'If we don't end war, war will end us.'.. H G Wells
'Money doesn't mind if we say it's evil, it goes from strength to strength. It's a fiction, an addiction, and a tacit conspiracy'.. Martin Amis
'Our main business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand'.. Thomas Carlyle