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Famous British Quotes
'It is a mistake to look too far ahead. Only one link of the chain of destiny can be handled at a time'.. Winston Churchill
'Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.'.. Oscar Wilde
'To destroy is still the strongest instinct in nature.'.. Max Beerbohm
'If equal affection cannot be, let the more loving be me.'.. W H Auden
'Without humility there can be no humanity.'.. John Buchan
'Every harlot was a virgin once.'.. William Blake
'Nothing can cure the soul but the senses, just as nothing can cure the senses but the soul.'.. Oscar Wilde
'There seem to me to be very few facts, at least ascertainable facts, in politics'.. Robert Peel
'One forgets words as one forgets names. One's vocabulary needs constant fertilizing or it will die.'.. Evelyn Waugh
'Everything I've ever told you, including this, is a lie'.. Peter Cook
'If you're going to make rubbish, be the best rubbish in it.'.. Richard Burton
'No violent extreme endures.'.. Thomas Carlyle
'All slang is metaphor, and all metaphor is poetry.'.. GK Chesterton
'If Galileo had said in verse that the world moved, the inquisition might have let him alone'.. Thomas Hardy
'When hospitality becomes an art it loses its very soul.'.. Max Beerbohm
'All that we are not stares back at what we are.'.. W H Auden
'Now this is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning'.. Winston Churchill
'Justice delayed is justice denied.'.. W E Gladstone
'Love works a different way in different minds, the fool it enlightens and the wise it blinds'.. John Dryden
'We always have been, we are, and I hope that we always will be detested in France'.. Duke of Wellington
'A gentleman is one who puts more into the world than he takes out'.. George Bernard Shaw
'Boldness is a mask for fear, however great.'.. John Dryden
'There are only four people who knew what the Beatles were about anyway.'.. Paul McCartney
'Paganism is infectious, more infectious than diphtheria or piety.'.. E M Forster
'Nonsense and beauty have close connections.'.. E M Forster
'I love not man the less, but Nature more.'.. Lord Byron
'Theres only one thing worse than an Estate Agent but that can be safely lanced, drained and surgically dressed.'.. Stephen Fry
'Is there anything worn under the kilt? No, it's all in perfect working order.'.. Spike Milligan
'Nothing, like something, happens anywhere.'.. Philip Larkin
'Economic advance is not the same thing as human progress'.. John Clapham