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Famous British Quotes
'Put three Englishmen on a desert island and within an hour they will have invented a class system'.. Alan Ayckbourn
'The enemy of idealism is zealotry.'.. Neil Kinnock
'Men may be popular without being ambitious, but there is hardly an ambitious man who does not try to be popular.'.. Lord North
'Hope is a good breakfast, but it is a bad supper.'.. Sir Francis Bacon
'If we have to have Tories, good luck to her. She is the best man among them'.. Barbara Castle
'Confidence is a plant of slow growth in an aged heart.'.. William Pitt (The Younger)
'A man must make his opportunity, as oft as find it.'.. Sir Francis Bacon
'An American monkey, after getting drunk on brandy, would never touch it again, and thus is much wiser than most men.'.. Charles Darwin
'Twin-sister of Religion, Selfishness.'.. Percy Bysshe Shelley
'Marriage is one long conversation, chequered by disputes.'.. Robert Louis Stevenson
'The only possible way there would be an uprising in this country would be if they banned caravanning and car boot sales'.. Victoria Wood
'I don't work at being ordinary.'.. Paul McCartney
'It is not good to cross the bridge before you get to it.'.. Judi Dench
'What is reading, but silent conversation.'.. Charles Lamb
'What, when drunk, one sees in other women, one sees in Garbo sober'.. Kenneth Tynan
'Happiness never lays its finger on its pulse.'.. Adam Smith
'Society needs to condemn a little more and understand a little less.'.. John Major
'Success - keeping your mind awake and your desire asleep.'.. Walter Scott
'How very little can be done under the spirit of fear.'.. Florence Nightingale
'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
'Be not afraid of greatness: some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them'.. William Shakespeare
'It's the one thing I actively don't like: just being recognized'.. Ricky Gervais
'People do not believe lies because they have to, but because they want to'.. Malcolm Muggeridge
'England is not all the world.'.. Mary, Queen of Scots
'The worst moment for the atheist is when he is really thankful and has nobody to thank.'.. Dante G Rossetti
'Nonsense and beauty have close connections.'.. E M Forster
'If you can't annoy somebody, there's little point in writing.'.. Sir Kingsley Amis
'A Royal Commission is a broody hen sitting on a china egg.'.. Michael Foot
'Taste is the only morality. Tell me what you like and I'll tell you what you are'.. John Ruskin
'Dorchester - A very agreeable town to live in'.. Daniel Defoe