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Famous British Quotes
'The silliest woman can manage a clever man; but it needs a very clever woman to manage a fool.'.. Rudyard Kipling
'I wonder what fool it was that first invented kissing.'.. Jonathan Swift
'I spent many years laughing at Harry Secombe's singing until somebody told me that it wasn't a joke.'.. Spike Milligan
'The whole annual produce of the land and labour of every country...naturally divides itself into three parts; the rent of the land, the wages of labour, and the profits of stock'.. Adam Smith
'I have never had problems with drugs. I have had problems with the police....'.. Keith Richards
'Man hands on misery to man. It deepens like a coastal shelf. Get out as early as you can, and don't have any kids yourself'.. Philip Larkin
'On the whole, human beings want to be good, but not too good, and not quite all the time'.. George Orwell
'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
'The world is a republic of mediocrities, and always was.'.. Thomas Carlyle
'Those who don't believe in magic will never find it'.. Roald Dahl
'Dictators free themselves, but they enslave the people.'.. Charlie Chaplin
'People who say it cannot be done should not interrupt those who are doing it'.. George Bernard Shaw
'All the war-propaganda, all the screaming and lies and hatred, comes invariably from people who are not fighting'.. George Orwell
'Talking is the disease of age.'.. Ben Jonson
'The finest eloquence is that which gets things done.'.. David Lloyd George
'To sentence a man of true genius, to the drudgery of a school is to put a racehorse on a treadmill'.. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
'The difference between a bad artist and a good one is: the bad artist seems to copy a great deal; the good one really does'.. William Blake
'Ask the right questions if you're to find the right answers.'.. Vanessa Redgrave
'Milford Haven - the finest port of Christendom'.. Horatio Nelson
'I never saw a wild thing sorry for itself. A small bird will drop frozen dead from a bough without ever having felt sorry for itself.'.. D H Lawrence
'Writing is the supreme solace.'.. Somerset Maugham
'It's so easy for propaganda to work, and dissent to be mocked.'.. Harold Pinter
'In English villages you turn over a stone and never know what might creep out'.. Agatha Christie
'He threatens many that hath injured one'.. Ben Jonson
'English consists entirely of foreign words pronounced wrongly'.. Bob Hope
'I used to desire many, many things, but now I have just one desire, and that's to get rid of all my other desires'.. John Cleese
'I used to think anyone doing anything weird was weird. Now I know that it is the people that call others weird that are weird'.. Paul McCartney
'Do what you haven't done is the key, I think.'.. Ridley Scott
'I do not know which makes a man more conservative - to know nothing but the present, or nothing but the past'.. John Maynard Keynes
'The higher the building the lower the morals.'.. Noel Coward