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Famous British Quotes
'All significant truths are private truths. As they become public they cease to become truths; they become facts, or at best, part of the public character; or at worst, catchwords.'.. T S Eliot
'He who sows hurry reaps indigestion.'.. Robert Louis Stevenson
'He who has health, has hope; and he who has hope, has everything.'.. Thomas Carlyle
'Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another'.. GK Chesterton
'Beauty is a short-lived tyranny.'.. George Bernard Shaw
'The human species, according to the best theory I can form of it, is composed of two distinct races, the men who borrow and the men who lend.'.. Charles Lamb
'It is curious that every creed promises a paradise on death which is unthinkable for anyone of taste'.. Evelyn Waugh
'All that I desire to point out is the general principle that life imitates art far more than art imitates life'.. Oscar Wilde
'It is with words as with sunbeams - the more they are condensed, the deeper they burn'.. Robert Southey
'Soldiers are citizens of death's grey land, drawing no dividend from time's tomorrows'.. Siegfried Sassoon
'Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead'.. Oscar Wilde
'To sentence a man of true genius, to the drudgery of a school is to put a racehorse on a treadmill'.. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
'Death is no different whined at than withstood.'.. Philip Larkin
'I can take any amount of criticism as long as its unqualifed praise'.. Noel Coward
'Farce is tragedy played at a thousand revolutions per minute.'.. Sir John Mortimer
'I dont speak French, I dont speak English, I am from Yorkshire'.. Geoffrey Boycott
'I may be drunk, Miss, but in the morning I will be sober and you will still be ugly.'.. Winston Churchill
'My Father had a profound influence on me, he was a lunatic.'.. Spike Milligan
'The love of a mother is the veil of a softer light between the heart and the heavenly Father'.. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
'Adversity is the first path to truth.'.. Lord Byron
'Things which do not require effort of some sort are seldom worth having'.. Ivor Novello
'An intellectual is a person who's found one thing that's more interesting than sex.'.. Aldous Huxley
'A toddling little girl is a centre of common feeling which makes the most dissimilar people understand each other.'.. George Eliot
'Heresy is another word for freedom of thought.'.. Graham Greene
'A good book is the precious lifeblood of a master spirit.'.. John Milton
'A man may devote himself to death and destruction to save a nation; but no nation will devote itself to death and destruction to save mankind.'.. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
'The worst moment for the atheist is when he is really thankful and has nobody to thank.'.. Dante G Rossetti
'Cowards die many times before their deaths; the valiant never taste of death but once'.. William Shakespeare
'No minister ever stood, or could stand, against public opinion.'.. Robert Peel
'There is much to be said for failure. It is much more interesting than success.'.. Max Beerbohm