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Famous British Quotes
'We always love those who admire us; we do not always love those whom we admire.'.. Rupert Brooke
'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
'Death destroys a man, but the idea of death saves him.'.. E M Forster
'Authority has every reason to fear the skeptic, for authority can rarely survive in the face of doubt'.. Vita Sackville-West
'Thieves respect property - they merely wish it to become their property'.. GK Chesterton
'A horse is dangerous at both ends and uncomfortable in the middle.'.. Ian Fleming
'A laugh, to be joyous, must flow from a joyous heart, for without kindness, there can be no true joy'.. Thomas Carlyle
'I lost my job as a cricket commentator for saying “I don’t want to bore you with the details”'.. Milton Jones
'A ruffled mind makes a restless pillow.'.. Charlotte Bronte
'Who, being loved, is poor?'.. Oscar Wilde
'When I make a joke I always laugh quickly so there is no doubt about it'.. Somerset Maugham
'I sometimes think that God in creating man somewhat overestimated his ability.'.. Oscar Wilde
'Life is a tragedy when seen in close-up, but a comedy in long-shot.'.. Charlie Chaplin
'I don't ever blink, honestly.'.. Ridley Scott
'You don't have to be the Dalai Lama to tell people that life's about change'.. John Cleese
'Sure I am of this, that you have only to endure to conquer.'.. Winston Churchill
'I don't believe that the public knows what it wants; this is the conclusion that I have drawn from my career.'.. Charlie Chaplin
'I love not man the less, but Nature more.'.. Lord Byron
'Every increased possession loads us with a new weariness.'.. John Ruskin
'What, when drunk, one sees in other women, one sees in Garbo sober'.. Kenneth Tynan
'A young man who isn't a socialist hasn't got a heart; an old man who is a socialist hasn't got a head.'.. David Lloyd George
'Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people'.. Oscar Wilde
'Progress everywhere today does seem to come so very heavily disguised as Chaos'.. Joyce Grenfell
'To know one thing, you must know the opposite.'.. Henry Moore
'Honour sinks where commerce long prevails.'.. Oliver Goldsmith
'I always tell a man not to use the word always'.. Robert Walpole
'A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject.'.. Winston Churchill
'Genius at first is little more than a great capacity for receiving discipline'.. George Eliot
'Motherhood: All love begins and ends there.'.. Robert Browning
'Divorce is a game played by lawyers.'.. Cary Grant