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Famous British Quotes
'People who say it cannot be done should not interrupt those who are doing it'.. George Bernard Shaw
'The first condition of understanding a foreign country is to smell it.'.. Rudyard Kipling
'Cowards die many times before their deaths; the valiant never taste of death but once'.. William Shakespeare
'I have never had problems with drugs. I have had problems with the police....'.. Keith Richards
'Do not do an immoral thing for moral reasons.'.. Thomas Hardy
'To succeed with the opposite sex, tell her you're impotent. She can't wait to disprove it.'.. Cary Grant
'All the world over, I will back the masses against the classes.'.. W E Gladstone
'Man is an animal that makes bargains: no other animal does this - no dog exchanges bones with another.'.. Adam Smith
'As far as I am concerned the paint is the person. I want it to work for me just as flesh does.'.. Lucien Freud
'It's discouraging to think how many people are shocked by honesty and how few by deceit.'.. Noel Coward
'Pleasure and freedom from pain, are the only things desirable as ends.'.. John Stuart Mill
'Continuous effort - not strength or intelligence - is the key to unlocking our potential'.. Winston Churchill
'Speed has never killed anyone, suddenly becoming stationary… that’s what gets you'.. Jeremy Clarkson
'Liberal: a power worshipper without power.'.. George Orwell
'We've discovered that the less we do, the more money we make.'.. Eric Idle
'Great men are seldom over-scrupulous in the arrangement of their attire.'.. Charles Dickens
'Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.'.. George Bernard Shaw
'Arrange whatever pieces come your way.'.. Virginia Woolf
'Marriage is a very good thing, but I think it's a mistake to make a habit out of it.'.. Somerset Maugham
'Everyone ought to bear patiently the results of his own conduct.'.. William Shakespeare
'The one phrase imperative to know in any foreign language is My friend will pay'.. Alan Whicker
'Successful investing is anticipating the anticipations of others.'.. John Maynard Keynes
'Christianity will go. It will vanish and shrink. I needn't argue with that; I'm right and I will be proved right.'.. John Lennon
'It is only in the world of objects that we have time and space and selves.'.. T S Eliot
'All the flower children were as alike as a congress of accountants and about as interesting.'.. Sir John Mortimer
'Every man at the bottom of his heart believes that he is a born detective.'.. John Buchan
'Everything we do has consequences.'.. Dennis Potter
'I don't watch television, I think it destroys the art of talking about oneself.'.. Stephen Fry
'I am afraid we must make the world honest before we can honestly say to our children that honesty is the best policy'.. George Bernard Shaw
'Carry out a random act of kindness, with no expectation of reward, safe in the knowledge that one day someone might do the same for you.'.. Diana Spencer