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Famous British Quotes
'Someone told me that each equation I included in the book would halve the sales.'.. Stephen Hawking
'Who's ever going to write a film in which I get the girl? Me!'.. John Cleese
'By nature, men love newfangledness.'.. Geoffrey Chaucer
'A woman can be anything the man who loves her would have her be.'.. J M Barrie
'Education begins the gentleman, but reading, good company and reflection must finish him.'.. John Locke
'No brilliance is needed in the law. Nothing but common sense, and relatively clean finger nails.'.. Sir John Mortimer
'It's a poor sort of memory that only works backwards.'.. Lewis Carroll
'England has always been disinclined to accept human nature.'.. E M Forster
'I'm a holy man minus the holiness.'.. E M Forster
'Failures are finger posts on the road to achievement.'.. C S Lewis
'All political power is a trust'.. Charles James Fox
'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
'Selfishness is the greatest curse of the human race.'.. W E Gladstone
'Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.'.. George Bernard Shaw
'To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only meaning of life.'.. Robert Louis Stevenson
'If I played Hamlet, they`d call it a horror film'.. Peter Cushing
'But better die than live mechanically a life that is a repetition of repetitions.'.. D H Lawrence
'The quickest way of ending a war is to lose it.'.. George Orwell
'As usual, there is a great woman behind every idiot.'.. John Lennon
'If Hitler invaded hell I would make at least a favorable reference to the devil in the House of Commons.'.. Winston Churchill
'An ounce of mother is worth a pound of clergy.'.. Rudyard Kipling
'You can always count on Americans to do the right thing - after they've tried everything else.'.. Winston Churchill
'Whether happiness may come or not, one should try and prepare one's self to do without it.'.. George Eliot
'The difference between Socrates and Jesus? The great conscious and the immeasurably great unconscious'.. Thomas Carlyle
'It is a mistake to think you can solve any major problems just with potatoes'.. Douglas Adams
'A man does not know what he is saying until he knows what he is not saying'.. GK Chesterton
'It is not good to cross the bridge before you get to it.'.. Judi Dench
'All that a husband or wife really wants is to be pitied a little, praised a little, and appreciated a little'.. Oliver Goldsmith
'I spent a lot of money on booze, birds and fast cars. The rest I just squandered.'.. George Best
'The dread of evil is a much more forcible principle of human actions than the prospect of good.'.. John Locke