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Famous British Quotes
'What is wonderful about great literature is that it transforms the man who reads it towards the condition of the man who wrote.'.. E M Forster
'People who insist on telling their dreams are among the terrors of the breakfast table'.. Max Beerbohm
'I am not against hasty marriages where a mutual flame is fanned by an adequate income'.. Wilkie Collins
'There are grounds for cautious optimism that we may now be near the end of the search for the ultimate laws of nature.'.. Stephen Hawking
'Deer hunting would be a fine sport if only the deer had guns'.. W S Gilbert
'Expectation is the root of all heartache.'.. William Shakespeare
'Doubt, of whatever kind, can be ended by action alone.'.. Thomas Carlyle
'The difference between a bad artist and a good one is: the bad artist seems to copy a great deal; the good one really does'.. William Blake
'Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.'.. Samuel Johnson
'He is the best physician who is the most ingenious inspirer of hope.'.. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
'Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children.'.. George Bernard Shaw
'The Pistols were like my work of art. They were my canvas'.. Malcolm McLaren
'Catholics are just protestants protesting against protestantism'.. D H Lawrence
'Diplomacy, is the art of letting somebody else have your way.'.. David Frost
'Life appears to me too short to be spent in nursing animosity, or registering wrongs.'.. Charlotte Bronte
'Serious sport is war minus the shooting.'.. George Orwell
'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
'You will find in politics that you are much exposed to the attribution of false motive. Never complain and never explain'.. Stanley Baldwin
'Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings.'.. Samuel Johnson
'A room without books is like a body without a soul.'.. GK Chesterton
'Language is not only the vehicle of thought, it is a great and efficient instrument in thinking'.. Humphry Davy
'I always admired virtue - but I could never imitate it'.. Charles II
'We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another'.. Jonathan Swift
'All our discontents about what we want appeared to spring from the want of thankfulness for what we have.'.. Daniel Defoe
'We should have a great fewer disputes in the world if words were taken for what they are, the signs of our ideas only, and not for things themselves.'.. John Locke
'A nation trying to tax itself to prosperity is rather like a man standing in a bucket and trying to lift himself up by the handle'.. Winston Churchill
'Indifference and neglect often do much more damage than outright dislike.'.. J K Rowling
'The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you can see.'.. Winston Churchill
'Gossip is what no one claims to like, but everybody enjoys.'.. Joseph Conrad
'Every harlot was a virgin once.'.. William Blake