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Famous British Quotes
'Heresies are experiments in man's unsatisfied search for truth.'.. H G Wells
'Every dog must have his day.'.. Jonathan Swift
'The real character of a man is found out by his amusements.'.. Joshua Reynolds
'Be like a duck. Calm on the surface, but always paddling like the dickens underneath.'.. Michael Caine
'If history were taught in the form of stories, it would never be forgotten'.. Rudyard Kipling
'Melancholy, indeed, should be diverted by every means but drinking.'.. Samuel Johnson
'To see a world in a grain of sand and heaven in a wild flower Hold infinity in the palms of your hand and eternity in an hour'.. William Blake
'The love that lasts longest is the love that is never returned.'.. Somerset Maugham
'Life is a progress from want to want, not from enjoyment to enjoyment.'.. Samuel Johnson
'The courage we desire and prize is not the courage to die decently, but to live manfully'.. Thomas Carlyle
'Comedy is simply a funny way of being serious.'.. Peter Ustinov
'Great things are done when men and mountains meet.'.. William Blake
'History is a race between education and catastrophe.'.. H G Wells
'The very essence of instinct is that it's followed independently of reason.'.. Charles Darwin
'I've only slept with men I've been married to. How many women can make that claim?'.. Elizabeth Taylor
'Those who have no hope pass their old age shrouded with an inward gloom'.. Wilfred Owen
'Paradise Lost is a book that, once put down, is very hard to pick up again.'.. Samuel Johnson
'What, when drunk, one sees in other women, one sees in Garbo sober'.. Kenneth Tynan
'I like Beethoven, especially the poems.'.. Ringo Starr
'Always laugh when you can. It is cheap medicine.'.. Lord Byron
'This diamond has so many carats it's almost a turnip.'.. Richard Burton
'Continuous effort - not strength or intelligence - is the key to unlocking our potential'.. Winston Churchill
'In a completely sane world, madness is the only freedom!'.. James G Ballard
'There is no such thing as the pursuit of happiness, but there is the discovery of joy'.. Joyce Grenfell
'The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you can see.'.. Winston Churchill
'There's no possibility of being witty without a little ill-nature.'.. Richard Sheridan
'Diligence is the mother of good fortune.'.. Benjamin Disraeli
'Oh, 'tis love, 'tis love that makes the world go round.'.. Lewis Carroll
'Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same.'.. Oscar Wilde
'Language is not only the vehicle of thought, it is a great and efficient instrument in thinking'.. Humphry Davy