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Famous British Quotes
'A woman's guess is much more accurate than a man's certainty.'.. Rudyard Kipling
'He threatens many that hath injured one'.. Ben Jonson
'Unintelligent people always look for a scapegoat.'.. Ernest Bevin
'Instead of this absurd division into sexes they ought to class people as static and dynamic.'.. Evelyn Waugh
'We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience'.. George Bernard Shaw
'Thank goodness I was never sent to school; it would have rubbed off some of the originality.'.. Beatrix Potter
'If there were no bad people, there would be no good lawyers.'.. Charles Dickens
'The toilets at a local police station have been stolen. Police say they have nothing to go on'.. Ronnie Barker
'Dorchester - A very agreeable town to live in'.. Daniel Defoe
'If you tell the truth, you have infinite power supporting you; but if not, you have infinite power against you'.. Charles George Gordon
'Consequences are unpitying.'.. George Eliot
'It's not the voting that's democracy; it's the counting.'.. Sir Tom Stoppard
'Ours is an excessively conscious age. We know so much, we feel so little.'.. D H Lawrence
'Those who don't believe in magic will never find it'.. Roald Dahl
'Without tact you can learn nothing.'.. Benjamin Disraeli
'Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children.'.. George Bernard Shaw
'I look upon every day to be lost, in which I do not make a new acquaintance'.. Samuel Johnson
'I will show you fear in a handful of dust.'.. T S Eliot
'This lady is not for turning.'.. Margaret Thatcher
'Theoretical principals must sometimes give way for the sake of practical advantages.'.. William Pitt (The Younger)
'A man may devote himself to death and destruction to save a nation; but no nation will devote itself to death and destruction to save mankind.'.. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
'All wealth is the product of labour.'.. John Locke
'The very first requirement in a hospital is that it should do the sick no harm.'.. Florence Nightingale
'Never the time and the place and the loved one all together!'.. Robert Browning
'Rolf Harris is a difficult man to hate but that shouldnt stop us trying'.. A A Gill
'We started off trying to set up a small anarchist community, but people wouldn't obey the rules.'.. Alan Bennett
'A celebrity is one who is known to many persons he is glad he doesn't know'.. Lord Byron
'My boyfriend had a sex manual but he was dyslexic. I was lying there and he was looking for my vinegar'.. Victoria Wood
'I love not man the less, but Nature more.'.. Lord Byron
'A man with God is always in the majority.'.. John Knox