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Famous British Quotes
'Every new opinion, at its starting, is precisely in a minority of one.'.. Thomas Carlyle
'Pictures deface walls more often than they decorate them.'.. William Wordsworth
'Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.'.. H G Wells
'I am the only man who can say he has been in Take That and at least 2 members of the Spice Girls'.. Robbie Williams
'Understand that sexuality is as wide as the sea. Understand that your morality is not law'.. Derek Jarman
'Little things affect little minds.'.. Benjamin Disraeli
'Though lovers be lost love shall not.'.. Dylan Thomas
'Be like a duck. Calm on the surface, but always paddling like the dickens underneath.'.. Michael Caine
'Anxiety is the hand maiden of creativity.'.. T S Eliot
'Great bodies of people are never responsible for what they do.'.. Virginia Woolf
'O, what a tangled web we weave when first we practise to deceive!'.. Walter Scott
'I never saw a wild thing sorry for itself. A small bird will drop frozen dead from a bough without ever having felt sorry for itself.'.. D H Lawrence
'Men of my age live in a state of continual desperation.'.. Vita Sackville-West
'There's no use doing a kindness if you do it a day too late.'.. Charles Kingsley
'A people always ends by resembling its shadow.'.. Rudyard Kipling
'Taste every fruit of every tree in the garden at least once. It is an insult to creation not to experience it fully. Temperance is wickedness'.. Stephen Fry
'It took me years to understand that words are often as important as experience, because words make experience last'.. William Morris
'Incongruity is the mainspring of laughter.'.. Max Beerbohm
'He who sows hurry reaps indigestion.'.. Robert Louis Stevenson
'When words are scarce they are seldom spent in vain.'.. William Shakespeare
'Truth emerges more readily from error than from confusion.'.. Sir Francis Bacon
'Man is the only creature that consumes without producing. He does not give milk, he does not lay eggs, he is too weak to pull the plough, he cannot run fast enough to catch rabbits. Yet he is lord of all the animals'.. George Orwell
'Difficulties mastered are opportunities won.'.. Winston Churchill
'A man may be so much of everything that he is nothing of anything.'.. Samuel Johnson
'The true secret of happiness lies in taking a genuine interest in all the details of daily life.'.. William Morris
'The profession of a prostitute is the only career in which the maximum income is paid to the newest apprentice'.. William Booth
'Laws are like cobwebs, which may catch small flies, but let wasps and hornets break through'.. Jonathan Swift
'There is much to be said for failure. It is much more interesting than success.'.. Max Beerbohm
'Now if the harvest is over, And the world cold, Give me the bonus of laughter, As I lose hold'.. John Betjeman
'The true definition of a snob is one who craves for what separates men rather than for what unites them'.. John Buchan