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Famous British Quotes
'I work for a Government I despise for ends I think criminal.'.. John Maynard Keynes
'I have often thought what a melancholy world this would be without children, and what an inhuman world without the aged'.. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
'People say it gets better but it doesn't. It just gets different, that's all.'.. Maggie Smith
'I think when the full horror of being fifty hits you, you should stay home and have a good cry'.. Alan Bleasdale
'Happiness never lays its finger on its pulse.'.. Adam Smith
'In the end Americans always end up doing the right thing, after they have eliminated all the other possibilities'.. Winston Churchill
'No ghost was ever seen by two pairs of eyes.'.. Thomas Carlyle
'He was a bold man that first eat on oyster.'.. Jonathan Swift
'Sure I am of this, that you have only to endure to conquer.'.. Winston Churchill
'Whichever party is in office, the Treasury is in power.'.. Harold Wilson
'Patriotism is an instant reaction that fades away when the war starts'.. Mick Jagger
'Pleasure and freedom from pain, are the only things desirable as ends.'.. John Stuart Mill
'Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together.'.. George Eliot
'Public opinion is a compound of folly, weakness, prejudice, wrong feeling, right feeling, obstinacy, and newspaper paragraphs'.. Robert Peel
'Sometimes we stare so long at a door that is closing that we see too late the one that is open.'.. Alexander Graham Bell
'Make all you can, save all you can, give all you can.'.. John Wesley
'He that loves to be flattered is worthy o' the flatterer.'.. William Shakespeare
'Bores can be divided into two classes; those who have their own particular subject, and those who do not need a subject.'.. A A Milne
'Mankind is not likely to salvage civilization unless he can evolve a system of good and evil which is independent of heaven and hell'.. George Orwell
'Theres only one thing worse than an Estate Agent but that can be safely lanced, drained and surgically dressed.'.. Stephen Fry
'The most important of my discoveries have been suggested to me by my failures'.. Humphry Davy
'Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.'.. Rudyard Kipling
'The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter.'.. Winston Churchill
'I venture to say no war can be long carried on against the will of the people.'.. Edmund Burke
'Aim for the sky and you'll reach the ceiling. Aim for the ceiling and you'll stay on the floor.'.. Bill Shankly
'I am prepared to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter.'.. Winston Churchill
'I went out with this girl the other night, she wore this real slinky number...She looked great going down the stairs'.. Milton Jones
'Remember that the most beautiful things in the world are the most useless; peacocks and lilies for instance'.. John Ruskin
'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
'Better the rudest work that tells a story or records a fact, than the richest without meaning'.. John Ruskin