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Famous British Quotes
'Man tends to increase at a greater rate than his means of subsistence.'.. Charles Darwin
'Love-making is an art which must be studied.'.. Ivor Novello
'I've sometimes thought of marrying - and then I've thought again.'.. Noel Coward
'What passions cannot music raise or quell?'.. John Dryden
'Parents wonder why the streams are bitter, when they themselves have poisoned the fountain.'.. John Locke
'No ghost was ever seen by two pairs of eyes.'.. Thomas Carlyle
'In my opinion, most of the great men of the past were only there for the beer - the wealth, prestige and grandeur that went with the power.'.. A J P Taylor
'Our doubts are traitors and make us lose the good we oft might win by fearing to attempt.'.. William Shakespeare
'We should have a great fewer disputes in the world if words were taken for what they are, the signs of our ideas only, and not for things themselves.'.. John Locke
'A little sincerity is a dangerous thing, and a great deal of it is absolutely fatal'.. Oscar Wilde
'Circumstances are beyond human control, but our conduct is in our own power.'.. Benjamin Disraeli
'Democracy means government by discussion, but it is only effective if you can stop people talking'.. Clement Attlee
'Be yourself is about the worst advice you can give to some people.'.. J B Priestley
'Great things are done when men and mountains meet.'.. William Blake
'Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers.'.. Alfred Lord Tennyson
'To an ordinary human being, love means nothing if it does not mean loving some people more than others'.. George Orwell
'A resolution to avoid an evil is seldom framed till the evil is so far advanced as to make avoidance impossible'.. Thomas Hardy
'Take away love and our earth is a tomb.'.. Robert Browning
'Auld Ayr,whom ne'er a town surpasses for honest men and bonnie lasses'.. Robert Burns
'Man is nature's sole mistake.'.. W S Gilbert
'Writers should be read, but neither seen nor heard.'.. Daphne du Maurier
'Money is like manure, of very little use except it be spread.'.. Sir Francis Bacon
'If you aren't in over your head, how do you know how tall you are?'.. T S Eliot
'Life, as I discovered, holds no more wretched occupation than trying to make the English laugh.'.. Malcolm Muggeridge
'In the old days men had the rack. Now they have the Press'.. Oscar Wilde
''Tis love that makes the world go round'.. Charles Dickens
'Poets don't have an 'audience'. They're talking to a single person all the time'.. Robert Graves
'If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.'.. Virginia Woolf
'Fortitude is the guard and support of the other virtues.'.. John Locke
'My wife is a sex object - every time I ask for sex, she objects.'.. Les Dawson