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Famous British Quotes
'Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.'.. John Locke
'Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all'.. Alfred Lord Tennyson
'A gentleman is one who puts more into the world than he takes out'.. George Bernard Shaw
'One cannot really be a Catholic and grown up.'.. George Orwell
'You will put on a dress of guilt and shoes with broken high ideals.'.. Roger McGough
'Success is a great deodorant.'.. Elizabeth Taylor
'It is not how much one makes but to what purpose one spends.'.. John Ruskin
'I don't know many singers who actually do like the sound of their own voice'.. Roger Daltrey
'Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons'.. Bertrand Russell
'Life is wasted on the living'.. Douglas Adams
'The art galleries of Paris contain the finest collection of frames I ever saw'.. Humphry Davy
'Talk that does not end in any kind of action is better suppressed altogether.'.. Thomas Carlyle
'Sex is a momentary itch, love never lets you go.'.. Sir Kingsley Amis
'We often repent of our first thoughts, and scarce ever of our second'.. Horace Walpole
'If a nation could not prosper without the enjoyment of perfect liberty and perfect justice, there is not in the world a nation which could ever have prospered.'.. Adam Smith
'There might be 1 finger on the button, but there will be 15 fingers on the safety catch'.. Harold Macmillan
'Wonders will never cease.'.. David Garrick
'If I cannot understand my friend's silence, I will never get to understand his words.'.. Enoch Powell
'I always knew that if all else failed I could become an actor. And all else failed'.. David Niven
'Science is the great antidote to the poison of enthusiasm and superstition.'.. Adam Smith
'Between friends differences in taste or opinion are irritating in direct proportion to their triviality.'.. W H Auden
'Necessity has no law.'.. Oliver Cromwell
'No man ever became great or good except through many and great mistakes.'.. W E Gladstone
'Invention is the talent of youth, as judgment is of age.'.. Jonathan Swift
'There is no such thing as the pursuit of happiness, but there is the discovery of joy'.. Joyce Grenfell
'A woman, the more curious she is about her face, is commonly the more careless about her house.'.. Ben Jonson
'If I had not some strength of will I would make a first class drunkard.'.. Ernest Shackleton
'Better to reign in hell than serve in heaven'.. John Milton
'Show me the man you honor, and I will know what kind of man you are.'.. Thomas Carlyle
'Laugharne - timeless, beautiful, barmy town'.. Dylan Thomas