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Famous British Quotes
'Contrariwise, if it was so, it might be; and if it were so, it would be; but as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic.'.. Lewis Carroll
'Accursed be he that first invented war.'.. Christopher Marlowe
'I wonder if anyone will ever know the emptiness of my life. Personal Diary -- Last entry "Oh what's the point?"'.. Kenneth Williams
'Science must have originated in the feeling that something was wrong.'.. Thomas Carlyle
'Rolf Harris is a difficult man to hate but that shouldnt stop us trying'.. A A Gill
'Lack of money is the root of all evil.'.. George Bernard Shaw
'I refuse to spend my life worrying about what I eat. There is no pleasure worth forgoing just for an extra three years in the geriatric ward.'.. Sir John Mortimer
'Fear is the mother of foresight.'.. Thomas Hardy
'A woman is as young as her knees.'.. Mary Quant
'A poet can survive everything but a misprint.'.. Oscar Wilde
'The marvelous thing about a joke with a double meaning is that it can only mean one thing'.. Ronnie Barker
'Work is the curse of the drinking classes.'.. Oscar Wilde
'To myself I am only a child playing on the beach, while vast oceans of truth lie undiscovered before me'.. Isaac Newton
'I used to look at these pictures of trumpeters pointing their instrument to the ceiling. Stunning pictures, but if you play the trumpet and point it upwards, all the spit comes back into your mouth!'.. Humphrey Lyttleton
'It is with words as with sunbeams - the more they are condensed, the deeper they burn'.. Robert Southey
'Nothing in life is so exhilarating as to be shot at without result.'.. Winston Churchill
'Fortune brings in some boats that are not steered.'.. William Shakespeare
'Football is not a matter of Life and Death - its far more important than that'.. Bill Shankly
'It's discouraging to think how many people are shocked by honesty and how few by deceit.'.. Noel Coward
'O, what a tangled web we weave when first we practise to deceive!'.. Walter Scott
'Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.'.. George Bernard Shaw
'I wanted to change the world. But I have found that the only thing one can be sure of changing is oneself.'.. Aldous Huxley
'The stars, that nature hung in heaven, and filled their lamps with everlasting oil, give due light to the misled and lonely traveller'.. John Milton
'I love argument, I love debate. I don't expect anyone just to sit there and agree with me, that's not their job'.. Margaret Thatcher
'Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies.'.. John Donne
'Marriage is like paying an endless visit in your worst clothes.'.. J B Priestley
'Reading without reflecting is like eating without digesting.'.. Edmund Burke
'A platitude is simply a truth repeated till people get tired of hearing it.'.. Stanley Baldwin
'Disease generally begins that equality which death completes.'.. Samuel Johnson
'One cannot really be a Catholic and grown up.'.. George Orwell