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Famous British Quotes
'Life is far too important a thing ever to talk seriously about.'.. Oscar Wilde
'Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others.'.. Robert Louis Stevenson
'All the flower children were as alike as a congress of accountants and about as interesting.'.. Sir John Mortimer
'I am in that temper that if I were under water I would scarcely kick to come to the top'.. John Keats
'I attribute my success to this - I never gave or took any excuse.'.. Florence Nightingale
'Adversity is the first path to truth.'.. Lord Byron
'For most of history, Anonymous was a woman.'.. Virginia Woolf
'Divorce is a game played by lawyers.'.. Cary Grant
'Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers.'.. Alfred Lord Tennyson
'You will find in politics that you are much exposed to the attribution of false motive. Never complain and never explain'.. Stanley Baldwin
'Better not be at all than not be noble.'.. Alfred Lord Tennyson
'Oh the nerves, the nerves; the mysteries of this machine called man! Oh the little that unhinges it, poor creatures that we are!'.. Charles Dickens
'Oh, 'tis love, 'tis love that makes the world go round.'.. Lewis Carroll
'To have news value is to have a tin can tied to one's tail.'.. T E Lawrence
'Every absurdity has a champion to defend it.'.. Oliver Goldsmith
'The more we elaborate our means of communication, the less we communicate'.. J B Priestley
'The cruelest lies are often told in silence.'.. Robert Louis Stevenson
'It is justice, not charity, that is wanting in the world.'.. Mary Shelley
'Every man desires to live long, but no man wishes to be old.'.. Jonathan Swift
'God has two dwellings; one in heaven, and the other in a meek and thankful heart.'.. Izaak Walton
'A woman, the more curious she is about her face, is commonly the more careless about her house.'.. Ben Jonson
'If you think squash is a competitive activity, try flower arranging.'.. Alan Bennett
'Sexual intercourse is like having someone else blow your nose'.. Philip Larkin
'To cure the British disease with socialism was like trying to cure leukaemia with leeches'.. Margaret Thatcher
'A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul.'.. George Bernard Shaw
'Dancing is a perpendicular expression of a horizontal desire.'.. George Bernard Shaw
'Cowards die many times before their deaths; the valiant never taste of death but once'.. William Shakespeare
'An American monkey, after getting drunk on brandy, would never touch it again, and thus is much wiser than most men.'.. Charles Darwin
'Of all acts of man repentance is the most divine. The greatest of all faults is to be conscious of none'.. Thomas Carlyle
'Asia is not going to be civilized after the methods of the West. There is too much Asia and she is too old.'.. Rudyard Kipling