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Famous British Quotes
'Without humility there can be no humanity.'.. John Buchan
'I am sure that if the mothers of various nations could meet, there would be no more wars'.. E M Forster
'What is reading, but silent conversation.'.. Charles Lamb
'In the end, the love you take is equal to the love you make.'.. Paul McCartney
'Good company and good discourse are the very sinews of virtue.'.. Izaak Walton
'I think fidelity is a good idea - now that I cant walk'.. Sir John Mortimer
'It is better to lose health like a spendthrift than to waste it like a miser.'.. Robert Louis Stevenson
'Satire is a sort of glass, wherein beholders do generally discover everybody's face but their own.'.. Jonathan Swift
'People who say it cannot be done should not interrupt those who are doing it'.. George Bernard Shaw
'Invention, it must be humbly admitted, does not consist in creating out of voice, but out of chaos'.. Mary Shelley
'Every new opinion, at its starting, is precisely in a minority of one.'.. Thomas Carlyle
'Everyone ought to bear patiently the results of his own conduct.'.. William Shakespeare
'The best part of a holiday is not so much to be resting yourself as to see all the other fellows busy working'.. Kenneth Grahame
'Oh, the tiger will love you. There is no sincerer love than the love of food.'.. George Bernard Shaw
'My favourite musical instrument is the telephone'.. Quentin Crisp
'Pictures deface walls more often than they decorate them.'.. William Wordsworth
'We may be a small island, but we are not a small people.'.. Edward Heath
'Sure I am of this, that you have only to endure to conquer.'.. Winston Churchill
'Bexhill on Sea is a peck on the cheek: Hastings is a lolloping tongue down the throat'.. Jo Brand
'If I had not some strength of will I would make a first class drunkard.'.. Ernest Shackleton
'Men judge us by the success of our efforts. God looks at the efforts themselves.'.. Charlotte Bronte
'In every American there is an air of incorrigible innocence, which seems to conceal a diabolical cunning.'.. A E Housman
'Man is nature's sole mistake.'.. W S Gilbert
'Humiliation is the beginning of sanctification.'.. John Donne
'Every man's memory is his private literature.'.. Aldous Huxley
'People seldom improve when they have no other model but themselves to copy'.. Oliver Goldsmith
'My boyfriend had a sex manual but he was dyslexic. I was lying there and he was looking for my vinegar'.. Victoria Wood
'Nothing, like something, happens anywhere.'.. Philip Larkin
'A clear and innocent conscience fears nothing.'.. Elizabeth I
'The world is like a grand staircase, some are going up and some are going down.'.. Samuel Johnson