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Famous British Quotes
'Every harlot was a virgin once.'.. William Blake
'A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of'.. Jane Austen
'A man never tells you anything until you contradict him.'.. George Bernard Shaw
'Grab a chance and you won't be sorry for a might-have-been.'.. Arthur Ransome
'Serious sport is war minus the shooting.'.. George Orwell
'I am certainly an ought and not a must.'.. E M Forster
'We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience'.. George Bernard Shaw
'Ambition may be defined as the willingness to receive any number of hits on the nose'.. Wilfred Owen
'Our incomes are like our shoes; if too small, they gall and pinch us; but if too large, they cause us to stumble and to trip.'.. John Locke
'For a creative writer possession of the "truth" is less important than emotional sincerity'.. George Orwell
'By gnawing through a dike, even a rat may drown a nation.'.. Edmund Burke
'Unlimited power corrupts the possessor.'.. William Pitt (The Younger)
'A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.'.. Douglas Adams
'Life turned out much better than I thought. I knew after a little while that I could act.'.. Peter O’Toole
'Opportunity makes a thief.'.. Sir Francis Bacon
'Few have been taught to any purpose who have not been their own teachers.'.. Joshua Reynolds
'Taste every fruit of every tree in the garden at least once. It is an insult to creation not to experience it fully. Temperance is wickedness'.. Stephen Fry
'No man is useless while he has a friend.'.. Robert Louis Stevenson
'I don't work at being ordinary.'.. Paul McCartney
'Presteigne - Neither in England nor Wales, simply in Radnorshire'.. George Borrow
'I have no consistency, except in politics; and that probably arises from my indifference to the subject altogether'.. Lord Byron
'Commerce changes the fate and genius of nations.'.. Thomas Gray
'Eternity's a terrible thought. I mean, where's it all going to end?'.. Sir Tom Stoppard
'I refuse to spend my life worrying about what I eat. There is no pleasure worth forgoing just for an extra three years in the geriatric ward.'.. Sir John Mortimer
'Happiness is the sublime moment when you get out of your corsets at night'.. Joyce Grenfell
'I'm always looking for meaningful one-night stands'.. Dudley Moore
'Listen to many, speak to a few.'.. William Shakespeare
'I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite'.. GK Chesterton
'No one does anything from a single motive.'.. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
'He that loves to be flattered is worthy o' the flatterer.'.. William Shakespeare