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Famous British Quotes
'Confidence is a plant of slow growth in an aged heart.'.. William Pitt (The Younger)
'Think before you speak is criticism's motto; speak before you think, creation's.'.. E M Forster
'A belief is like a guillotine, just as heavy, just as light.'.. David Hockney
'No benevolent man ever lost altogether the fruits of his benevolence.'.. Adam Smith
'It's easier to replace a dead man than a good picture.'.. George Bernard Shaw
'A precedent embalms a principle.'.. Benjamin Disraeli
'All men who have turned out worth anything have had the chief hand in their own education.'.. Walter Scott
'One is certain of nothing but the truth of one's own emotions.'.. E M Forster
'You will put on a dress of guilt and shoes with broken high ideals.'.. Roger McGough
'Adapt or perish, now as ever, is nature's inexorable imperative.'.. H G Wells
'Deep-versed in books and shallow in himself.'.. John Milton
'Our true nationality is mankind.'.. H G Wells
'This lady is not for turning.'.. Margaret Thatcher
'The news is always bad, even when it sounds good'.. Aldous Huxley
'A man seldom thinks with more earnestness of anything than he does of his dinner'.. Samuel Johnson
'Nothing is pleasant that is not spiced with variety.'.. Sir Francis Bacon
'History is a race between education and catastrophe.'.. H G Wells
'No man is an island, entire of itself'.. John Donne
'The dictum that truth always triumphs over persecution is one of the pleasant falsehoods which men repeat after one another till they pass into commonplaces, but which all experience refutes.'.. John Stuart Mill
'Nothing is so contagious as enthusiasm.'.. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
'By nature, men love newfangledness.'.. Geoffrey Chaucer
'I think we have all experienced passion that is not in any sense reasonable.'.. Stephen Fry
'When a stupid man is doing something he is ashamed of, he always declares that it is his duty.'.. George Bernard Shaw
'I went into the business for the money, and the art grew out of it. If people are disillusioned by that remark, I can't help it. It's the truth.'.. Charlie Chaplin
'The higher the building the lower the morals.'.. Noel Coward
'Honest people don't hide their deeds.'.. Emily Bronte
'Why buy a book when you can join a library'.. Ricky Gervais
'My reputation grows with every failure.'.. George Bernard Shaw
'Lack of money is the root of all evil.'.. George Bernard Shaw
'Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.'.. Bertrand Russell