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Famous British Quotes
'Diplomacy, is the art of letting somebody else have your way.'.. David Frost
'If everyone demanded peace instead of another television set, then there'd be peace.'.. John Lennon
'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
'I don't believe that the public knows what it wants; this is the conclusion that I have drawn from my career.'.. Charlie Chaplin
'Each man in his way is a treasure.'.. Robert Falcon Scott
'An author who speaks about their own books is almost as bad as a mother who speaks about her own children.'.. Benjamin Disraeli
'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
'Every noble work is at first impossible.'.. Thomas Carlyle
'The highest possible stage in moral culture is when we recognize that we ought to control our thoughts.'.. Charles Darwin
'Autumn wins you best by this its mute appeal to sympathy for its decay.'.. Robert Browning
'When I was a nurse my favourite assignment was the anorexia ward. I sometimes had 17 dinners'.. Jo Brand
'I find Cambridge an asylum, in every sense of the word.'.. A E Housman
'The best part of a holiday is not so much to be resting yourself as to see all the other fellows busy working'.. Kenneth Grahame
'Nurture your minds with great thoughts. To believe in the heroic makes heroes'.. Benjamin Disraeli
'I'll give you my opinion of the human race in a nutshell... their heart's in the right place, but their head is a thoroughly inefficient organ.'.. Somerset Maugham
'Now that I know what I want, I don't have to hold on to it quite so much.'.. Lucien Freud
'I don't know half of you half as well as I should like; and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve.'.. J R R Tolkien
'All the war-propaganda, all the screaming and lies and hatred, comes invariably from people who are not fighting'.. George Orwell
'A man that hoards up riches and enjoys them not, is like an ass that carries gold and eats thistles'.. Richard Burton
'The way to tell if a man is sexually excited is to check if he is breathing'.. Jo Brand
'Civilisation is the distance man has put between himself and his excreta'.. Brian Aldiss
'Such as we are made of, such we be.'.. William Shakespeare
'Man is only great when he acts from passion.'.. Benjamin Disraeli
'If you don't believe in God, all you have to believe in is decency.'.. Harold Macmillan
'America: It's like Britain, only with buttons.'.. Ringo Starr
'Consistency is the last refuge of the unimaginative.'.. Oscar Wilde
'Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.'.. Rudyard Kipling
'Now if the harvest is over, And the world cold, Give me the bonus of laughter, As I lose hold'.. John Betjeman
'When a true genius appears, you can know him by this sign: that all the dunces are in a confederacy against him.'.. Jonathan Swift
'There will always be an England even if its in Hollywood'.. Bob Hope