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Famous British Quotes
'I wonder what fool it was that first invented kissing.'.. Jonathan Swift
'There is always time for failure.'.. Sir John Mortimer
'Music and woman I cannot but give way to, whatever my business is.'.. Samuel Pepys
'True it is that covetousness is rich, modesty starves.'.. John Milton
'A slavish bondage to parents cramps every faculty of the mind.'.. Mary Shelley
'They say an actor is only as good as his parts. Well my parts have done me pretty well'.. Barbara Windsor
'History is a race between education and catastrophe.'.. H G Wells
'Love seeketh not itself to please, nor for itself hath any care, but for another gives its ease, and builds a Heaven in Hell's despair'.. William Blake
'It was fantastic to work in Cornwall partly because my family live there so I was able to do lots of visiting and eat lots of cake.'.. Dawn French
'Woman begins by resisting a man's advances and ends by blocking his retreat.'.. Oscar Wilde
'Maybe this world is another planets hell'.. Aldous Huxley
'I used to think anyone doing anything weird was weird. Now I know that it is the people that call others weird that are weird'.. Paul McCartney
'Artists aren't really people. And I'm actually 40 per cent papier mache'.. Morrissey
'Both read the Bible day and night, but thou read black where I read white'.. William Blake
'Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point.'.. C S Lewis
'If we don't end war, war will end us.'.. H G Wells
'Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.'.. T S Eliot
'A man without a goal is like a ship without a rudder.'.. Thomas Carlyle
'A smile abroad is often a scowl at home.'.. Alfred Lord Tennyson
'Give the enemy not only a road for flight, but also a means of defending it.'.. Thomas Hardy
'Flying is learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.'.. Douglas Adams
'It's not the voting that's democracy; it's the counting.'.. Sir Tom Stoppard
'What I am looking for is a blessing not in disguise.'.. Jerome K Jerome
'Confidence is a plant of slow growth in an aged heart.'.. William Pitt (The Younger)
'Every man desires to live long, but no man wishes to be old.'.. Jonathan Swift
'Let not England forget her precedence of teaching nations how to live'.. John Milton
'My Father had a profound influence on me, he was a lunatic.'.. Spike Milligan
'He who seeks rest finds boredom. He who seeks work finds rest.'.. Dylan Thomas
'You had better have one King than five hundred'.. Charles II
'If you are going through hell keep going'.. Winston Churchill