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Famous British Quotes
'Education: the inculcation of the incomprehensible into the indifferent by the incompetent'.. John Maynard Keynes
'Never argue; repeat your assertion.'.. Robert Owen
'Let sleeping dogs lie.'.. Robert Walpole
'Politics is the ability to foretell what is going to happen tomorrow, next week, next month and next year. And to have the ability afterwards to explain why it didn't happen.'.. Winston Churchill
'A man who does not think for himself does not think at all.'.. Oscar Wilde
'The greatest pleasure I know is to do a good action by stealth and have it found out by accident.'.. Charles Lamb
'The real tragedy of the poor is the poverty of their aspirations'.. Adam Smith
'In London, love and scandal are considered the best sweeteners of tea.'.. John Osborne
'We are a small country with a large sense of its own importance'.. David Walliams
'We first make our habits, and then our habits make us.'.. John Dryden
'A man is in general better pleased when he has a good dinner upon his table, than when his wife talks Greek'.. Samuel Johnson
'The man who can dominate a London dinner-table can dominate the world'.. Oscar Wilde
'He is the best physician who is the most ingenious inspirer of hope.'.. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
'I've only slept with men I've been married to. How many women can make that claim?'.. Elizabeth Taylor
'Remember the dignity of your womanhood. Do not appeal, do not beg, do not grovel. Take courage, join hands, stand beside us, fight with us.'.. Christabel Pankhurst
'Charity begins at home, and justice begins next door.'.. Charles Dickens
'There is no me. I do not exist. There used to be a me but I had it surgically removed'.. Peter Sellers
'Progress is not an illusion, it happens, but it is slow and invariably disappointing'.. George Orwell
'Let everyone regulate his conduct... by the golden rule of doing to others as in similar circumstances we would have them do to us, and the path of duty will be clear before him.'.. William Wilberforce
'Understand that sexuality is as wide as the sea. Understand that your morality is not law'.. Derek Jarman
'Independence? That's middle class blasphemy. We are all dependent on one another, every soul of us on earth.'.. George Bernard Shaw
'Whether happiness may come or not, one should try and prepare one's self to do without it.'.. George Eliot
'He who has health, has hope; and he who has hope, has everything.'.. Thomas Carlyle
'Science is the great antidote to the poison of enthusiasm and superstition.'.. Adam Smith
'If you're holding out for universal popularity, I'm afraid you will be in this cabin for a very long time.'.. J K Rowling
'Love is 2 minutes and 52 seconds of squelching noises'.. John Lydon (Johnny Rotten)
'Hope is a good breakfast, but it is a bad supper.'.. Sir Francis Bacon
'Eating words has never given me indigestion.'.. Winston Churchill
'A loving heart is the beginning of all knowledge.'.. Thomas Carlyle
'Great is the hand that holds dominion over man by a scribbled name.'.. Dylan Thomas