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Famous British Quotes
'Pessimist: One who, when he has the choice of two evils, chooses both'.. Oscar Wilde
'If we do not maintain justice, justice will not maintain us.'.. Sir Francis Bacon
'Great things are done when men and mountains meet.'.. William Blake
'Be thine own palace, or the world's thy jail.'.. John Donne
'Everywhere in life, the true question is not what we gain, but what we do.'.. Thomas Carlyle
'Beauty is a short-lived tyranny.'.. George Bernard Shaw
'I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them.'.. Ian Fleming
'People who insist on telling their dreams are among the terrors of the breakfast table'.. Max Beerbohm
'Between friends differences in taste or opinion are irritating in direct proportion to their triviality.'.. W H Auden
'We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience'.. George Bernard Shaw
'I have never had problems with drugs. I have had problems with the police....'.. Keith Richards
'I work for a Government I despise for ends I think criminal.'.. John Maynard Keynes
'Have a heart that never hardens, and a temper that never tires, and a touch that never hurts.'.. Charles Dickens
'That we must all die, we always knew; I wish I had remembered it sooner.'.. Samuel Johnson
'Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant'.. Robert Louis Stevenson
'There is not a more repulsive spectacle than on old man who will not forsake the world, which has already forsaken him.'.. T S Eliot
'Whichever party is in office, the Treasury is in power.'.. Harold Wilson
'I feel sure that no girl would go to the altar if she knew all.'.. Queen Victoria
'I have always thought the actions of men the best interpreters of their thoughts.'.. John Locke
'Christianity will go. It will vanish and shrink. I needn't argue with that; I'm right and I will be proved right.'.. John Lennon
'Nothing made by brute force lasts.'.. Robert Louis Stevenson
'The more we study the more we discover our ignorance.'.. Percy Bysshe Shelley
'Man has almost constant occasion for the help of his brethren, and it is in vain for him to expect it from their benevolence only.'.. Adam Smith
'You can give without loving, but you can never love without giving.'.. Robert Louis Stevenson
'No one can read with profit that which he cannot learn to read with pleasure.'.. Thomas Hardy
'Every man's memory is his private literature.'.. Aldous Huxley
'Oh, 'tis love, 'tis love that makes the world go round.'.. Lewis Carroll
'He who praises everybody, praises nobody.'.. Samuel Johnson
'Nature never did betray the heart that loved her.'.. William Wordsworth
'Mankind is not likely to salvage civilization unless he can evolve a system of good and evil which is independent of heaven and hell'.. George Orwell