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Famous British Quotes
'A good book is the precious lifeblood of a master spirit.'.. John Milton
'There is always time for failure.'.. Sir John Mortimer
'Everyone ought to bear patiently the results of his own conduct.'.. William Shakespeare
'Live as long as you may, the first twenty years are the longest half of your life.'.. Robert Southey
'One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes a revolution in order to establish a dictatorship'.. George Orwell
'The great advantage of being in a rut is that when one is in a rut one knows exactly where one is'.. Alan Bennett
'Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it.'.. George Bernard Shaw
'I think when the full horror of being fifty hits you, you should stay home and have a good cry'.. Alan Bleasdale
'Man is nature's sole mistake.'.. W S Gilbert
'You know, somebody actually complimented me on my driving today. They left a little note on the windscreen, it said 'Parking Fine.''.. Tommy Cooper
'A woman can be anything the man who loves her would have her be.'.. J M Barrie
'Death is no different whined at than withstood.'.. Philip Larkin
'Take away love and our earth is a tomb.'.. Robert Browning
'Consistency is the last refuge of the unimaginative.'.. Oscar Wilde
'When a true genius appears, you can know him by this sign: that all the dunces are in a confederacy against him.'.. Jonathan Swift
'A belief is like a guillotine, just as heavy, just as light.'.. David Hockney
'People who can't be witty exert themselves to be devout and affectionate.'.. George Eliot
'As people are walking all the time, in the same spot, a path appears.'.. John Locke
'We are not interested in the possibilities of defeat. They do not exist'.. Queen Victoria
'That's all drugs and alcohol do, they cut off your emotions in the end.'.. Ringo Starr
''Not many sounds in life exceed in interest an unexpected knock at the door''.. Charles Lamb
'I don’t understand bus lanes. Why do poor people have to get to places quicker than I do?'.. Jeremy Clarkson
'No man is useless while he has a friend.'.. Robert Louis Stevenson
'Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.'.. Winston Churchill
'Nowadays you can go anywhere in the world in a few hours, and nothing is fabulous any more'.. Roald Dahl
'If history were taught in the form of stories, it would never be forgotten'.. Rudyard Kipling
'I didn't come into politics to change the Labour Party. I came into politics to change the country'.. Tony Blair
'There but for the grace of God goes God'.. Winston Churchill
'Punctuality is the virtue of the bored.'.. Evelyn Waugh
'It is impossible to enjoy idling thoroughly unless one has plenty of work to do'.. Jerome K Jerome