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Famous British Quotes
'Henley is the Venice of the South'.. Boris Johnson
'People who get through life dependent on other people's possessions are always the first to lecture you on how little possessions count.'.. Ben Elton
'A day wasted on others is not wasted on one's self.'.. Charles Dickens
'Nothing builds self-esteem and self-confidence like accomplishment'.. Thomas Carlyle
'Theoretical principals must sometimes give way for the sake of practical advantages.'.. William Pitt (The Younger)
'The Beduin could not look for God within him: he was too sure that he was within God.'.. T E Lawrence
'The war between the sexes is the only one in which both sides regularly sleep with the enemy'.. Quentin Crisp
'I'm not as thrilled with myself as I used to be.'.. Oliver Reed
'Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.'.. T S Eliot
'Instead of this absurd division into sexes they ought to class people as static and dynamic.'.. Evelyn Waugh
'People seldom improve when they have no other model but themselves to copy'.. Oliver Goldsmith
'No man is useless while he has a friend.'.. Robert Louis Stevenson
'All men have an instinct for conflict: at least, all healthy men.'.. Hilaire Belloc
'General principles... are to the facts as the root and sap of a tree are to its leaves'.. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
'I see music as one language. If one musical form eats its own tail, it dies. So it needs to be a mongrel, it needs to be hybridised.'.. Sting
'Riches are a good hand maiden, but a poor mistress.'.. Sir Francis Bacon
'It is the duty of Her Majesty's government neither to flap nor to falter'.. Harold Macmillan
'Parents wonder why the streams are bitter, when they themselves have poisoned the fountain.'.. John Locke
'A healthy attitude is contagious but don't wait to catch it from others. Be a carrier'.. Sir Tom Stoppard
'He who laughs most, learns best.'.. John Cleese
'Woman begins by resisting a man's advances and ends by blocking his retreat.'.. Oscar Wilde
'Men love in haste, but they detest at leisure.'.. Lord Byron
'Fortitude is the guard and support of the other virtues.'.. John Locke
'Pain is no evil, unless it conquers us.'.. Charles Kingsley
'Childhood is measured out by sounds and smells and sights, before the dark hour of reason grows.'.. John Betjeman
'We build too many walls and not enough bridges.'.. Isaac Newton
'Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.'.. H G Wells
'A professor is someone who talks in someone else's sleep.'.. W H Auden
'One forgets words as one forgets names. One's vocabulary needs constant fertilizing or it will die.'.. Evelyn Waugh
'Heresy is another word for freedom of thought.'.. Graham Greene