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Famous British Quotes
'Continuous effort - not strength or intelligence - is the key to unlocking our potential'.. Winston Churchill
'Nothing is more obstinate than a fashionable consensus.'.. Margaret Thatcher
'No one does anything from a single motive.'.. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
'Now this is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning'.. Winston Churchill
'Nothing can cure the soul but the senses, just as nothing can cure the senses but the soul.'.. Oscar Wilde
'God could not be everywhere, and therefore he made mothers.'.. Rudyard Kipling
'Like all great travellers, I have seen more than I remember, and remember more than I have seen.'.. Benjamin Disraeli
'I always knew that if all else failed I could become an actor. And all else failed'.. David Niven
'I`ve arrived, and to prove it, I`m here.'.. Max Bygraves
'Thought is the parent of the deed.'.. Thomas Carlyle
'Other nations use 'force'; we Britons alone use 'Might'.'.. Evelyn Waugh
'Honour sinks where commerce long prevails.'.. Oliver Goldsmith
'A team effort is a lot of people doing what I say'.. Michael Winner
'Reading without reflecting is like eating without digesting.'.. Edmund Burke
'A gentleman is one who never hurts anyone's feelings unintentionally'.. Oscar Wilde
'Everything I've ever told you, including this, is a lie'.. Peter Cook
'Wonders will never cease.'.. David Garrick
'If God did not intend for us to eat animals, then why did he make them out of meat?'.. John Cleese
'Man tends to increase at a greater rate than his means of subsistence.'.. Charles Darwin
'There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.'.. Benjamin Disraeli
'One of the things being in politics has taught me is that men are not a reasoned or reasonable sex'.. Margaret Thatcher
'Justice and judgment lie often a world apart.'.. Emmeline Pankhurst
'Talking is the disease of age.'.. Ben Jonson
'When I make a joke I always laugh quickly so there is no doubt about it'.. Somerset Maugham
'A common mistake people make when trying to design something is underestimating the ingenuity of fools'.. Douglas Adams
'War against a foreign country only happens when the moneyed classes think they are going to profit from it'.. George Orwell
'I think that making love is the best form of exercise.'.. Cary Grant
'Democracy means government by discussion, but it is only effective if you can stop people talking'.. Clement Attlee
'I like to drink to suit my location.'.. Tom Jones
'Be not a slave of words.'.. Thomas Carlyle