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Famous British Quotes
'Selfishness is the greatest curse of the human race.'.. W E Gladstone
'It was fantastic to work in Cornwall partly because my family live there so I was able to do lots of visiting and eat lots of cake.'.. Dawn French
'The difference between Socrates and Jesus? The great conscious and the immeasurably great unconscious'.. Thomas Carlyle
'Media is just a word that has come to mean bad journalism.'.. Graham Greene
'Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.'.. Oscar Wilde
'Doubt, of whatever kind, can be ended by action alone.'.. Thomas Carlyle
'A professor is someone who talks in someone else's sleep.'.. W H Auden
'If you fell down yesterday, stand up today.'.. H G Wells
'Do noble things, not dream them all day long.'.. Charles Kingsley
'Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.'.. George Bernard Shaw
'The saddest thing I can imagine is to get used to luxury.'.. Charlie Chaplin
''Hearty Homely loving Hertford''.. Charles Lamb
'The first condition of progress is the removal of censorship.'.. George Bernard Shaw
'Consequences are unpitying.'.. George Eliot
'There is nothing constant in this world but inconsistency.'.. Jonathan Swift
'Invention is the talent of youth, as judgment is of age.'.. Jonathan Swift
'Nowadays you can go anywhere in the world in a few hours, and nothing is fabulous any more'.. Roald Dahl
'My goal is simple. It is a complete understanding of the universe, why it is as it is and why it exists at all.'.. Stephen Hawking
'Oh, what a shock. My career must be slipping. This is the first time I've been available to pick up an award.'.. Michael Caine
'Quality is never an accident. It is always the result of intelligent effort.'.. John Ruskin
'Soldiers are citizens of death's grey land, drawing no dividend from time's tomorrows'.. Siegfried Sassoon
'The poetry of the earth is never dead.'.. John Keats
'If a farmer fills his barn with grain, he gets mice. If he leaves it empty, he gets actors'.. Walter Scott
'People who say it cannot be done should not interrupt those who are doing it'.. George Bernard Shaw
'I am not young enough to know everything.'.. Oscar Wilde
'Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children.'.. George Bernard Shaw
'Pleasure and action make the hours seem short.'.. William Shakespeare
'If you are cast in a different mould to the majority, it is no merit of yours: Nature did it.'.. Charlotte Bronte
'If you want to see my monument, look around you'.. Christopher Wren
'In the end, everything is a gag.'.. Charlie Chaplin