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Famous British Quotes
'Do not let spacious plans for a new world divert your energies from saving what is left of the old'.. Winston Churchill
'Life could be wonderful if people would leave you alone.'.. Charlie Chaplin
'Architecture aims at Eternity.'.. Christopher Wren
'Good company and good discourse are the very sinews of virtue.'.. Izaak Walton
'History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.'.. Winston Churchill
'No distance of place or lapse of time can lessen the friendship of those who are thoroughly persuaded of each other's worth'.. Robert Southey
'It is an old maxim of mine that when you have excluded the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.'.. Arthur Conan Doyle
'Almost every man wastes part of his life attempting to display qualities which he does not possess'.. Samuel Johnson
'Each man in his way is a treasure.'.. Robert Falcon Scott
'As far as I am concerned the paint is the person. I want it to work for me just as flesh does.'.. Lucien Freud
'General principles... are to the facts as the root and sap of a tree are to its leaves'.. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
'Someone told me that each equation I included in the book would halve the sales.'.. Stephen Hawking
'Life is far too important a thing ever to talk seriously about.'.. Oscar Wilde
'Nothing builds self-esteem and self-confidence like accomplishment'.. Thomas Carlyle
'Justice and judgment lie often a world apart.'.. Emmeline Pankhurst
'I wanted to change the world. But I have found that the only thing one can be sure of changing is oneself.'.. Aldous Huxley
'If you have men who will only come if they know there is a good road, I don't want them. I want men who will come if there is no road at all.'.. David Livingstone
'All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.'.. Winston Churchill
'How inappropriate to call this planet Earth when it is quite clearly Ocean.'.. Arthur C Clarke
'Keep violence in the mind where it belongs.'.. Brian Aldiss
'The avoidance of taxes is the only intellectual pursuit that still carries any reward'.. John Maynard Keynes
'Marriage: A friendship recognized by the police.'.. Robert Louis Stevenson
'But love's a malady without a cure.'.. John Dryden
'The main object of religion is not to get a man into heaven, but to get heaven into him'.. Thomas Hardy
'Sexual intercourse is like having someone else blow your nose'.. Philip Larkin
'I got nasty habits; I take tea at three.'.. Mick Jagger
'I like the ephemeral thing about theatre, every performance is like a ghost - it's there and then it's gone'.. Maggie Smith
'Whenever people talk to me about the weather I always feel certain that they mean something else'.. Oscar Wilde
'The marvelous thing about a joke with a double meaning is that it can only mean one thing'.. Ronnie Barker
'Death destroys a man, but the idea of death saves him.'.. E M Forster