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Famous British Quotes
'From the middle of life onward, only he remains vitally alive who is ready to die with life'.. Samuel Johnson
'There was no respect for youth when I was young, and now that I am old, there is no respect for age, I missed it coming and going'.. J B Priestley
'I do not believe that any man fears to be dead, but only the stroke of death'.. Sir Francis Bacon
'People who insist on telling their dreams are among the terrors of the breakfast table'.. Max Beerbohm
'The aura given out by a person or object is as much a part of them as their flesh.'.. Lucien Freud
'It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.'.. Oscar Wilde
'I dont make predictions. I never have and I never will'.. Tony Blair
'Human blunders usually do more to shape history than human wickedness.'.. A J P Taylor
'Life is a progress from want to want, not from enjoyment to enjoyment.'.. Samuel Johnson
'He who has health, has hope; and he who has hope, has everything.'.. Thomas Carlyle
'It is not how much one makes but to what purpose one spends.'.. John Ruskin
'One who does not know when to die, does not know how to live.'.. John Ruskin
'I am determined that my children shall be brought up in their father's religion, if they can find out what it is.'.. Charles Lamb
'When you choose your friends, don't be short-changed by choosing personality over character.'.. Somerset Maugham
'I sometimes think that the price of liberty is not so much eternal vigilance as eternal dirt'.. George Orwell
'Writing is the supreme solace.'.. Somerset Maugham
'Most human beings have an infinite capacity for taking things for granted'.. Aldous Huxley
'A platitude is simply a truth repeated till people get tired of hearing it.'.. Stanley Baldwin
'The land of my fathers. My fathers can have it.'.. Dylan Thomas
'Although it is not true that all conservatives are stupid people, it is true that most stupid people are conservative'.. John Stuart Mill
'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
'What worries you, masters you.'.. John Locke
'I work for a Government I despise for ends I think criminal.'.. John Maynard Keynes
'I could not live in a country so miserable as to possess no castles'.. John Ruskin
'There is a wisdom of the head, and a wisdom of the heart.'.. Charles Dickens
'Chester pleases my fancy more than any other place I ever saw'.. James Boswell
'The man's desire is for the woman; but the woman's desire is rarely other than for the desire of the man.'.. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
'Dickens is one of those authors who are well worth stealing.'.. George Orwell
'There are some men who are improved by drinking; as there are fruits that are not good until they are rotten.'.. Samuel Johnson
'Some folk want their luck buttered'.. Thomas Hardy