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Famous British Quotes
'There is no comparison between that which is lost by not succeeding and that which is lost by not trying.'.. Sir Francis Bacon
'Taste is the only morality. Tell me what you like and I'll tell you what you are'.. John Ruskin
'I wouldnt say I was the best manager in the business but I was in the top 1'.. Brian Clough
'Intelligence is the ability to adapt to change.'.. Stephen Hawking
'Understand that sexuality is as wide as the sea. Understand that your morality is not law'.. Derek Jarman
'Be not a slave of words.'.. Thomas Carlyle
'The trouble with words is that you never know whose mouths they have been in.'.. Dennis Potter
'I desire no future that will break the ties with the past.'.. George Eliot
'Some of my best leading men have been dogs and horses.'.. Elizabeth Taylor
'Nothing in life is so exhilarating as to be shot at without result.'.. Winston Churchill
'Don't be afraid to take a big step if one is indicated. You can't cross a chasm in two small jumps.'.. David Lloyd George
'A laugh, to be joyous, must flow from a joyous heart, for without kindness, there can be no true joy'.. Thomas Carlyle
'No benevolent man ever lost altogether the fruits of his benevolence.'.. Adam Smith
'All autobiography is self-indulgent.'.. Daphne du Maurier
'A true friend stabs you in the front.'.. Oscar Wilde
'You can give without loving, but you can never love without giving.'.. Robert Louis Stevenson
'What makes life dreary is the want of a motive.'.. George Eliot
'The saddest thing I can imagine is to get used to luxury.'.. Charlie Chaplin
'Do what you will, this world's a fiction and is made up of contradiction'.. William Blake
'No one does anything from a single motive.'.. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
'Deprivation is for me what daffodils were for Wordsworth.'.. Philip Larkin
'I think you should take your job seriously, but not yourself - that is the best combination'.. Judi Dench
'Soldiers are citizens of death's grey land, drawing no dividend from time's tomorrows'.. Siegfried Sassoon
'The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good'.. Samuel Johnson
'Endurance is patience concentrated.'.. Thomas Carlyle
'Jealousy is the jaundice of the soul.'.. John Dryden
'Everything I've ever told you, including this, is a lie'.. Peter Cook
'It's not whether you win or lose, it's how many people remember you when you die.'.. Jonathan Ross
'A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul.'.. George Bernard Shaw
'I've never intended to be controversial but it's very easy to be controversial in pop music because nobody ever is'.. Morrissey