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Famous British Quotes
'Asia is not going to be civilized after the methods of the West. There is too much Asia and she is too old.'.. Rudyard Kipling
'Always live in the ugliest house on the street - then you don't have to look at it.'.. David Hockney
'A horse is dangerous at both ends and uncomfortable in the middle.'.. Ian Fleming
'Dictators free themselves, but they enslave the people.'.. Charlie Chaplin
'Here is my first principle of foreign policy: good government at home'.. W E Gladstone
'Make yourself an honest man, and then you may be sure there is one less rascal in the world'.. Thomas Carlyle
'You want to be foretold the weather? it is bad enough when it comes without having the misery of knowing about it beforehand'.. Jerome K Jerome
'The whole annual produce of the land and labour of every country...naturally divides itself into three parts; the rent of the land, the wages of labour, and the profits of stock'.. Adam Smith
'He that hath knowledge spareth his words.'.. Sir Francis Bacon
'Artists aren't really people. And I'm actually 40 per cent papier mache'.. Morrissey
'No advance in wealth, no softening of manners, no reform or revolution has ever brought human equality a millimeter nearer'.. George Orwell
'We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another'.. Jonathan Swift
'A woman uses her intelligence to find reasons to support her intuition'.. GK Chesterton
'Its the menopause. I have got my own climate'.. Julie Walters
'Those that vow the most are the least sincere.'.. Richard Sheridan
'People who can't be witty exert themselves to be devout and affectionate.'.. George Eliot
'Art, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere.'.. GK Chesterton
'Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.'.. Benjamin Disraeli
'I have never had problems with drugs. I have had problems with the police....'.. Keith Richards
'Think of the man who first tasted German Sausage'.. Jerome K Jerome
'I have terrible hearing trouble. I have unwittingly helped to invent and refine a type of music that makes its principal proponents deaf.'.. Pete Townshend
'I like the ephemeral thing about theatre, every performance is like a ghost - it's there and then it's gone'.. Maggie Smith
'I can calculate the motion of heavenly bodies, but not the madness of people'.. Isaac Newton
'Football wasn't meant to be run by linesmen and air traffic control.'.. Tommy Docherty
'The poetry of the earth is never dead.'.. John Keats
'In the old days men had the rack. Now they have the Press'.. Oscar Wilde
'The future is purchased by the present.'.. Samuel Johnson
'My only regret in life is that I did not drink more champagne'.. John Maynard Keynes
'The fact of the matter is that most actors are shy people.'.. Roger Moore
'Do not tell secrets to those whose faith and silence you have not already tested.'.. Elizabeth I