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Famous British Quotes
'Anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job.'.. Douglas Adams
'Our greatest glory consists not in never failing, but in rising every time we fall'.. Oliver Goldsmith
'Better never than late.'.. George Bernard Shaw
'Faith is a passionate intuition.'.. William Wordsworth
'Nothing is too wonderful to be true if it be consistent with the laws of nature'.. Michael Faraday
'Great discoveries and improvements invariably involve the cooperation of many minds'.. Alexander Graham Bell
'Great men are seldom over-scrupulous in the arrangement of their attire.'.. Charles Dickens
'Every man at the bottom of his heart believes that he is a born detective.'.. John Buchan
'No minister ever stood, or could stand, against public opinion.'.. Robert Peel
'I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many unsigned poems, was a woman'.. Virginia Woolf
'General principles... are to the facts as the root and sap of a tree are to its leaves'.. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
'Nurture your minds with great thoughts. To believe in the heroic makes heroes'.. Benjamin Disraeli
'My reputation grows with every failure.'.. George Bernard Shaw
'One who does not know when to die, does not know how to live.'.. John Ruskin
'To make us love our country, our country ought to be lovely.'.. Edmund Burke
'When I was young I thought that money was the most important thing in life; now that I am old I know that it is.'.. Oscar Wilde
'Every man's memory is his private literature.'.. Aldous Huxley
'The fact that logic cannot satisfy us awakens an almost insatiable hunger for the irrational.'.. A N Wilson
'To all, to each, a fair good-night, and pleasing dreams, and slumbers light.'.. Walter Scott
'There are no such things as Flowers there are only gladdened Leaves.'.. John Ruskin
'Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not; a sense of humor to console him for what he is.'.. Sir Francis Bacon
'Chester pleases my fancy more than any other place I ever saw'.. James Boswell
'All mankind... being all equal and independent, no one ought to harm another in his life, health, liberty or possessions.'.. John Locke
'Theres only one thing worse than an Estate Agent but that can be safely lanced, drained and surgically dressed.'.. Stephen Fry
'Genius not only diagnoses the situation but supplies the answers.'.. Robert Graves
'I am not against hasty marriages where a mutual flame is fanned by an adequate income'.. Wilkie Collins
'Life is what happens while you are busy making other plans.'.. John Lennon
'The more highly public life is organized the lower does its morality sink'.. E M Forster
'The more I study religions the more I am convinced that man never worshipped anything but himself.'.. Richard Burton
'A dog is for life and not just for christmas so do be careful at the office party'.. Jimmy Carr