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Famous British Quotes
'I've done the most awful rubbish in order to have somewhere to go in the morning'.. Richard Burton
'I'm a holy man minus the holiness.'.. E M Forster
'Selfishness is the greatest curse of the human race.'.. W E Gladstone
'Disease generally begins that equality which death completes.'.. Samuel Johnson
'We first make our habits, and then our habits make us.'.. John Dryden
'War would end if the dead could return.'.. Stanley Baldwin
'Great things are done when men and mountains meet.'.. William Blake
'Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested.'.. Sir Francis Bacon
'There is nothing so fatal to character as half finished tasks.'.. David Lloyd George
'Never forget that only dead fish swim with the stream.'.. Malcolm Muggeridge
'On the road from the City of Skepticism, I had to pass through the Valley of Ambiguity.'.. Adam Smith
'As no man is born an artist, so no man is born an angler.'.. Izaak Walton
'Artists are like everybody else.'.. Damien Hirst
'War is a quarrel between two thieves too cowardly to fight their own battle.'.. Thomas Carlyle
'There is no such thing as the pursuit of happiness, but there is the discovery of joy'.. Joyce Grenfell
'They offered me a handshake of £10,000 to settle amicably. I told them that they would have to be a lot more amicable than that.'.. Tommy Docherty
'A man that hoards up riches and enjoys them not, is like an ass that carries gold and eats thistles'.. Richard Burton
'It is a cliche that most cliches are true, but then like most cliches, that cliche is untrue'.. Stephen Fry
'There are some things you can't share without ending up liking each other.'.. J K Rowling
'A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of.'.. Jane Austen
'My body has certainly wandered a good deal, but I have an uneasy suspicion that my mind has not wandered enough.'.. Noel Coward
'He would make a lovely corpse.'.. Charles Dickens
'The greatest pleasure I know is to do a good action by stealth and have it found out by accident.'.. Charles Lamb
'Paganism is infectious, more infectious than diphtheria or piety.'.. E M Forster
'Several excuses are always less convincing than one.'.. Aldous Huxley
'It is an old maxim of mine that when you have excluded the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.'.. Arthur Conan Doyle
'No man is an island, entire of itself'.. John Donne
'A woman is as young as her knees.'.. Mary Quant
'The greatest scholars are not usually the wisest people.'.. Geoffrey Chaucer
'Credit is a system whereby a person who can not pay gets another person who can not pay to guarantee that he can pay.'.. Charles Dickens