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Famous British Quotes
'If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.'.. Virginia Woolf
'But love's a malady without a cure.'.. John Dryden
'Almost every man wastes part of his life attempting to display qualities which he does not possess'.. Samuel Johnson
'When you read and understand a poem, comprehending its rich and formal meanings, then you master chaos a little.'.. Stephen Spender
'If you tell the truth, you have infinite power supporting you; but if not, you have infinite power against you'.. Charles George Gordon
'The surest way to fail is not to determine to succeed.'.. Richard Sheridan
'Advice is like snow - the softer it falls, the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper in sinks into the mind.'.. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
'All I need to make a comedy is a park, a policeman and a pretty girl.'.. Charlie Chaplin
'Life is nothing but a competition to be the criminal rather than the victim.'.. Bertrand Russell
'Of all acts of man repentance is the most divine. The greatest of all faults is to be conscious of none'.. Thomas Carlyle
'You can get an Englishman to do anything simply by whispering in his ear "I know your guilty secret"'.. P G Wodehouse
'Compromise is the best and cheapest lawyer.'.. Robert Louis Stevenson
'I attribute my success to this - I never gave or took any excuse.'.. Florence Nightingale
'The more I study religions the more I am convinced that man never worshipped anything but himself.'.. Richard Burton
'I left England when I was 4 when I discovered that I couldnt be king'.. Bob Hope
'Being pregnant is an occupational hazard of being a wife.'.. Queen Victoria
'I'll give you my opinion of the human race in a nutshell... their heart's in the right place, but their head is a thoroughly inefficient organ.'.. Somerset Maugham
'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
'The human species, according to the best theory I can form of it, is composed of two distinct races, the men who borrow and the men who lend.'.. Charles Lamb
'If everyone demanded peace instead of another television set, then there'd be peace.'.. John Lennon
'A work of art is the unique result of a unique temperament.'.. Oscar Wilde
'I became one of the Stately Homos of England'.. Quentin Crisp
'Do not allow to slip away from you freedoms the people who came before you won with such hard knocks.'.. D H Lawrence
'Difficulties are just things to overcome'.. Ernest Shackleton
'Think globally, act locally.'.. Paul McCartney
'Great discoveries and improvements invariably involve the cooperation of many minds'.. Alexander Graham Bell
'I like Beethoven, especially the poems.'.. Ringo Starr
'It's the one thing I actively don't like: just being recognized'.. Ricky Gervais
'Opportunity makes a thief.'.. Sir Francis Bacon
'A man loses his Dog so he puts an ad in the local paper - Here Boy!'.. Spike Milligan