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Famous British Quotes
'Three minutes thought would suffice to sort this out but thought is irksome and three minutes is a long time'.. A E Housman
'I used to go missing a lot...Miss Canada, Miss United Kingdom, Miss World.'.. George Best
'Those who don't know history are destined to repeat it.'.. Edmund Burke
'Having a great intellect is no path to being happy.'.. Stephen Fry
'Show me the man you honor, and I will know what kind of man you are.'.. Thomas Carlyle
'However I dress it up, I was a spy and I am not proud of it'.. Christine Keeler
'Great discoveries and improvements invariably involve the cooperation of many minds'.. Alexander Graham Bell
'Art is born of humiliation.'.. W H Auden
'Happiness is not a possession to be prized, it is a quality of thought, a state of mind.'.. Daphne du Maurier
'If history were taught in the form of stories, it would never be forgotten'.. Rudyard Kipling
'Adversity is the first path to truth.'.. Lord Byron
'Give the enemy not only a road for flight, but also a means of defending it.'.. Thomas Hardy
'Success - keeping your mind awake and your desire asleep.'.. Walter Scott
'Don't talk to me about a man's being able to talk sense; everyone can talk sense. Can he talk nonsense?'.. William Pitt (The Younger)
'Talk that does not end in any kind of action is better suppressed altogether.'.. Thomas Carlyle
'Ask the right questions if you're to find the right answers.'.. Vanessa Redgrave
'A man lives by believing something: not by debating and arguing about many things.'.. Thomas Carlyle
'Fortunate indeed the child who first sees the light of day in that romantic town'.. Andrew Carnegie
'I then realized my appearance was a bit odd. My right leg was no longer with me. It had caught somewhere in the top of the cockpit as I tried to leave my Spitfire.'.. Douglas Bader
'There is frequently more to be learned from the unexpected questions of a child than the discourses of men'.. John Locke
'There are two things no man will admit he cannot do well: drive and make love.'.. Stirling Moss
'Swansea - Ugh, Lovely town'.. Dylan Thomas
'Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.'.. George Bernard Shaw
'Youth would be an ideal state if it came a little later in life'.. Herbert Henry Asquith
'Laugharne - timeless, beautiful, barmy town'.. Dylan Thomas
'To most men experience is like the stern lights of a ship, which illuminate only the track it has passed.'.. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
'Fame often makes a writer vain, but seldom makes him proud.'.. W H Auden
'Never the time and the place and the loved one all together!'.. Robert Browning
'I wonder if anyone will ever know the emptiness of my life. Personal Diary -- Last entry "Oh what's the point?"'.. Kenneth Williams
'You never know what is enough unless you know what is more than enough.'.. William Blake