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Famous British Quotes
'The most important of my discoveries have been suggested to me by my failures'.. Humphry Davy
'I became one of the Stately Homos of England'.. Quentin Crisp
'Love is not love that alters when it alteration finds.'.. William Shakespeare
'First law on holes - when you're in one, stop digging!'.. Denis Healey
'Put three Englishmen on a desert island and within an hour they will have invented a class system'.. Alan Ayckbourn
'An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered'.. GK Chesterton
'Time you enjoy wasting, was not wasted.'.. John Lennon
'The things most people want to know about are usually none of their business.'.. George Bernard Shaw
'One's life has many compartments.'.. Harold Pinter
'No man ever became great or good except through many and great mistakes.'.. W E Gladstone
'A consistent soul believes in destiny, a capricious one in chance.'.. Benjamin Disraeli
'Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers.'.. Alfred Lord Tennyson
'We forge the chains we wear in life.'.. Charles Dickens
'I love argument, I love debate. I don't expect anyone just to sit there and agree with me, that's not their job'.. Margaret Thatcher
'Bachelors have consciences, married men have wives.'.. Samuel Johnson
'At fifty everyone has the face he deserves.'.. George Orwell
'He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches.'.. George Bernard Shaw
'Have a heart that never hardens, and a temper that never tires, and a touch that never hurts.'.. Charles Dickens
'Fortunate indeed the child who first sees the light of day in that romantic town'.. Andrew Carnegie
'If there's no money in poetry, neither is there poetry in money.'.. Robert Graves
'It is an old maxim of mine that when you have excluded the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.'.. Arthur Conan Doyle
'Her virtue was that she said what she thought, her vice that what she thought didn't amount to much.'.. Peter Ustinov
'I like not only to be loved, but to be told I am loved.'.. George Eliot
'Actually american football is a lot like rugby but why do they keep on having all those committee meetings?'.. Winston Churchill
'You want to be foretold the weather? it is bad enough when it comes without having the misery of knowing about it beforehand'.. Jerome K Jerome
'Pity those who nature abuses; never those who abuse nature.'.. Richard Sheridan
'Art, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere.'.. GK Chesterton
'I never saw a wild thing sorry for itself. A small bird will drop frozen dead from a bough without ever having felt sorry for itself.'.. D H Lawrence
'We grow small trying to be great.'.. David Hockney
'Learn from your dreams what you lack.'.. W H Auden