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Famous British Quotes
'Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another'.. GK Chesterton
'Autumn wins you best by this its mute appeal to sympathy for its decay.'.. Robert Browning
'In every American there is an air of incorrigible innocence, which seems to conceal a diabolical cunning.'.. A E Housman
'To most men experience is like the stern lights of a ship, which illuminate only the track it has passed.'.. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
'It is better to have a lion at the head of an army of sheep, than a sheep at the head of an army of lions'.. Daniel Defoe
'So much of left-wing thought is a kind of playing with fire by people who don't even know that fire is hot'.. George Orwell
'The politician who never made a mistake never made a decision.'.. John Major
'Youth smiles without any reason. It is one of its chiefest charms.'.. Thomas Gray
'A politician is a person with whose politics you don't agree; if you agree with him he's a statesman.'.. David Lloyd George
'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
'Marriage is like paying an endless visit in your worst clothes.'.. J B Priestley
'I am the only man who can say he has been in Take That and at least 2 members of the Spice Girls'.. Robbie Williams
'If you want to see my monument, look around you'.. Christopher Wren
'When everyone is somebody, then no one's anybody.'.. W S Gilbert
'Laziness has become the chief characteristic of journalism, displacing incompetence.'.. Sir Kingsley Amis
'British People have a socialist mind and a conservative heart'.. Albert Finney
'During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act'.. George Orwell
'Be thine own palace, or the world's thy jail.'.. John Donne
'All sympathy not consistent with acknowledged virtue is but disguised selfishness'.. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
'Russia is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma.'.. Winston Churchill
'The human species, according to the best theory I can form of it, is composed of two distinct races, the men who borrow and the men who lend.'.. Charles Lamb
'WH Auden didnt love God, he just fancied him'.. Stephen Spender
'Oh, to be in England now that April's there.'.. Robert Browning
'One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes a revolution in order to establish a dictatorship'.. George Orwell
'The mind that is wise mourns less for what age takes away; than what it leaves behind.'.. William Wordsworth
'Art has to move you and design does not, unless it's a good design for a bus.'.. David Hockney
'I'll always be there because I'm a skilled professional actor. Whether or not I've any talent is beside the point'.. Michael Caine
'It is not reasonable that those who gamble with men's lives should not stake their own.'.. H G Wells
'Deer hunting would be a fine sport if only the deer had guns'.. W S Gilbert
'I cant type but if I could I would rather play the Harpsichord'.. Peter Ustinov