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Famous British Quotes
'Thieves respect property - they merely wish it to become their property'.. GK Chesterton
'A truth that's told with bad intent beats all the lies you can invent.'.. William Blake
'Men judge us by the success of our efforts. God looks at the efforts themselves.'.. Charlotte Bronte
'Better not be at all than not be noble.'.. Alfred Lord Tennyson
'He that will enjoy the brightness of sunshine, must quit the coolness of the shade'.. Samuel Johnson
'Our patience will achieve more than our force.'.. Edmund Burke
'Love seeketh not itself to please, nor for itself hath any care, but for another gives its ease, and builds a Heaven in Hell's despair'.. William Blake
'One's life has many compartments.'.. Harold Pinter
'I am extraordinarily patient, provided I get my own way in the end'.. Margaret Thatcher
'Very few of us are what we seem'.. Agatha Christie
'God hangs the greatest weights upon the smallest wires.'.. Sir Francis Bacon
'Now that I know what I want, I don't have to hold on to it quite so much.'.. Lucien Freud
'When I was a nurse my favourite assignment was the anorexia ward. I sometimes had 17 dinners'.. Jo Brand
'Absences are a good influence in love and keep it bright and delicate.'.. Robert Louis Stevenson
'I don't know why I should have to learn Algebra... I'm never likely to go there.'.. Billy Connolly
'Soldiers are citizens of death's grey land, drawing no dividend from time's tomorrows'.. Siegfried Sassoon
'Nothing ever becomes real till it is experienced.'.. John Keats
'Those who don't believe in magic will never find it'.. Roald Dahl
'The love that lasts longest is the love that is never returned.'.. Somerset Maugham
'Three minutes thought would suffice to sort this out but thought is irksome and three minutes is a long time'.. A E Housman
'A day without laughter is a day wasted.'.. Charlie Chaplin
'A loving heart is the truest wisdom.'.. Charles Dickens
'The world is a stage, but the play is badly cast.'.. Oscar Wilde
'In the long history of humankind (and animal kind, too) those who learned to collaborate and improvise most effectively have prevailed.'.. Charles Darwin
'I sometimes think that being widowed is God's way of telling you to come off the Pill.'.. Victoria Wood
'Any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in Mankind; And therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee.'.. John Donne
'I dont understand the French. These are people with a town called Brest and none of them think its funny'.. Al Murray
'Anybody who's been married to a man for forty odd years knows he's all talk'.. Michael Parkinson
'Above our life we love a steadfast friend.'.. Christopher Marlowe
'Nothing that is worth knowing can be taught'.. Oscar Wilde