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Famous British Quotes
'Faith is a passionate intuition.'.. William Wordsworth
'No battle is worth fighting except the last one.'.. Enoch Powell
'I spent a lot of money on booze, birds and fast cars. The rest I just squandered.'.. George Best
'There are strings in the human heart that had better not be vibrated.'.. Charles Dickens
'We grow small trying to be great.'.. David Hockney
'I went window shopping today! I bought four windows.'.. Tommy Cooper
'Never trust a man, who when left alone with a tea cosey... Doesn't try it on.'.. Billy Connolly
'The most conservative man in this world is the British trade unionist when you want to change him.'.. Ernest Bevin
'I dont make predictions. I never have and I never will'.. Tony Blair
'Man tends to increase at a greater rate than his means of subsistence.'.. Charles Darwin
'We have forty million reasons for failure, but not a single excuse.'.. Rudyard Kipling
'You may be as vicious about me as you please. You will only do me justice.'.. Richard Burton
'I want to be all used up when I die.'.. George Bernard Shaw
'From quiet homes and first beginning, out to the undiscovered ends, there's nothing worth the wear of winning, but laughter and the love of friends'.. Hilaire Belloc
'Man is the only creature that consumes without producing. He does not give milk, he does not lay eggs, he is too weak to pull the plough, he cannot run fast enough to catch rabbits. Yet he is lord of all the animals'.. George Orwell
'He who knows only his own side of the case knows little of that.'.. John Stuart Mill
'I know not, sir, whether Bacon wrote the works of Shakespeare, but if he did not, it seems to me that he missed the opportunity of his life.'.. J M Barrie
'It is easy to answer the ultimate questions - it saves you bothering with the immediate ones.'.. John Osborne
'Anything worth doing is worth overdoing.'.. Mick Jagger
'Critics! Those cut-throat bandits in the paths of fame.'.. Robert Burns
'You can give without loving, but you can never love without giving.'.. Robert Louis Stevenson
'My body has certainly wandered a good deal, but I have an uneasy suspicion that my mind has not wandered enough.'.. Noel Coward
'A man lives by believing something: not by debating and arguing about many things.'.. Thomas Carlyle
'Squash - that's not exercise, it's flagellation.'.. Noel Coward
'Cowards die many times before their deaths; the valiant never taste of death but once'.. William Shakespeare
'Love-making is an art which must be studied.'.. Ivor Novello
'However I dress it up, I was a spy and I am not proud of it'.. Christine Keeler
'Fame often makes a writer vain, but seldom makes him proud.'.. W H Auden
'A woman is as young as her knees.'.. Mary Quant
'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