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Famous British Quotes
'Greenwich possesses the best air, the best prospect and the best conversation'.. Daniel Defoe
'Think globally, act locally.'.. Paul McCartney
'An author who speaks about their own books is almost as bad as a mother who speaks about her own children.'.. Benjamin Disraeli
'There is no such thing as the pursuit of happiness, but there is the discovery of joy'.. Joyce Grenfell
'Life is what happens while you are busy making other plans.'.. John Lennon
'There is always time for failure.'.. Sir John Mortimer
'Sooner or later everyone sits down to a banquet of consequences.'.. Robert Louis Stevenson
'There's no such thing as failure - just waiting for success.'.. John Osborne
'A room without books is like a body without a soul.'.. GK Chesterton
'When hospitality becomes an art it loses its very soul.'.. Max Beerbohm
'To make your children capable of honesty is the beginning of education.'.. John Ruskin
'No distance of place or lapse of time can lessen the friendship of those who are thoroughly persuaded of each other's worth'.. Robert Southey
'A toddling little girl is a centre of common feeling which makes the most dissimilar people understand each other.'.. George Eliot
'It is most unwise for people in love to marry.'.. George Bernard Shaw
'A man who trusts nobody is apt to be the kind of man nobody trusts'.. Harold Macmillan
'Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another'.. GK Chesterton
'A man may devote himself to death and destruction to save a nation; but no nation will devote itself to death and destruction to save mankind.'.. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
'The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none.'.. Thomas Carlyle
'To most men experience is like the stern lights of a ship, which illuminate only the track it has passed.'.. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
'We're against beaurocracy and anything ending in a Y'.. John Lydon (Johnny Rotten)
'America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between'.. Oscar Wilde
'Friendship is certainly the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love'.. Jane Austen
'Each man in his way is a treasure.'.. Robert Falcon Scott
'Any subject can be made interesting, and therefore any subject can be made boring'.. Hilaire Belloc
'I love criticism just so long as it's unqualified praise.'.. Noel Coward
'If thou woudst view fair Melrose aright, go visit it by the pale moonlight'.. Walter Scott
'Spoon feeding in the long run teaches us nothing but the shape of the spoon.'.. E M Forster
'An intellectual is a person who's found one thing that's more interesting than sex.'.. Aldous Huxley
'Patriots always talk of dying for their country but never of killing for their country'.. Bertrand Russell
'If you don't believe in God, all you have to believe in is decency.'.. Harold Macmillan