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Famous British Quotes
'I am a part of all that I have seen.'.. Alfred Lord Tennyson
'I always admired virtue - but I could never imitate it'.. Charles II
'Nothing builds self-esteem and self-confidence like accomplishment'.. Thomas Carlyle
'It is impossible to enjoy idling thoroughly unless one has plenty of work to do'.. Jerome K Jerome
'Chastity - the most unnatural of all the sexual perversions.'.. Aldous Huxley
'I am in that temper that if I were under water I would scarcely kick to come to the top'.. John Keats
'My whole life is waiting for the questions to which I have prepared answers.'.. Sir Tom Stoppard
'There's no such thing as failure - just waiting for success.'.. John Osborne
'Discretion is the perfection of reason, and a guide to us in all the duties of life.'.. Walter Scott
'The real tragedy of the poor is the poverty of their aspirations'.. Adam Smith
'This diamond has so many carats it's almost a turnip.'.. Richard Burton
'Thousands have lived without love, not one without water.'.. W H Auden
'Life is ours to be spent, not to be saved.'.. D H Lawrence
'With two small children, I haven't had a wash since 2001 so the chance to go shopping is way down the list. It is something I do intend to get'.. Jo Brand
'All men would be tyrants if they could.'.. Daniel Defoe
'Have nothing in your house that you do not know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful.'.. William Morris
'Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal.'.. T S Eliot
'Nothing is more obstinate than a fashionable consensus.'.. Margaret Thatcher
'A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool'.. William Shakespeare
'I've done the most awful rubbish in order to have somewhere to go in the morning'.. Richard Burton
'Politics is the ability to foretell what is going to happen tomorrow, next week, next month and next year. And to have the ability afterwards to explain why it didn't happen.'.. Winston Churchill
'What happens in the heart simply happens.'.. Ted Hughes
'Better to be without logic than without feeling.'.. Charlotte Bronte
'A widespread taste for pornography means that nature is alerting us to some threat of extinction'.. James G Ballard
'It was a very simple team talk. All I used to say was: 'Whenever possible, give the ball to George'.. Matt Busby
'Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point.'.. C S Lewis
'From quiet homes and first beginning, out to the undiscovered ends, there's nothing worth the wear of winning, but laughter and the love of friends'.. Hilaire Belloc
'Illusion is the first of all pleasures.'.. Oscar Wilde
'Those who don't know history are destined to repeat it.'.. Edmund Burke
'Catholics are just protestants protesting against protestantism'.. D H Lawrence