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Famous British Quotes
'A resolution to avoid an evil is seldom framed till the evil is so far advanced as to make avoidance impossible'.. Thomas Hardy
'I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many unsigned poems, was a woman'.. Virginia Woolf
'I love everything that's old, - old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wine'.. Oliver Goldsmith
'There are strings in the human heart that had better not be vibrated.'.. Charles Dickens
'Most people perform well in a crisis - when the spotlight is on them; it's on the Sunday afternoons of this life, when no-one is looking, that the spirit falters.'.. Alan Bennett
'Incongruity is the mainspring of laughter.'.. Max Beerbohm
'When hospitality becomes an art it loses its very soul.'.. Max Beerbohm
'Consequences are unpitying.'.. George Eliot
'Spoon feeding in the long run teaches us nothing but the shape of the spoon.'.. E M Forster
'I always knew that if all else failed I could become an actor. And all else failed'.. David Niven
'Subdue your appetites, my dears, and you've conquered human nature.'.. Charles Dickens
'One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making new discoveries'.. A A Milne
'Independence? That's middle class blasphemy. We are all dependent on one another, every soul of us on earth.'.. George Bernard Shaw
'To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only meaning of life.'.. Robert Louis Stevenson
'I have always thought the actions of men the best interpreters of their thoughts.'.. John Locke
'Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others.'.. Robert Louis Stevenson
'He who rejects change is the architect of decay. The only human institution which rejects progress is the cemetery'.. Harold Wilson
'Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other.'.. Edmund Burke
'I am prepared to go anywhere, provided it be forward.'.. David Livingstone
'Let sleeping dogs lie.'.. Robert Walpole
'I wouldnt say I was the best manager in the business but I was in the top 1'.. Brian Clough
'It is the duty of Her Majesty's government neither to flap nor to falter'.. Harold Macmillan
'All the world over, I will back the masses against the classes.'.. W E Gladstone
'Consistency is the last refuge of the unimaginative.'.. Oscar Wilde
'Nothing shows up the difference between the things said or read, so much as the daily experience of it'.. Vita Sackville-West
'Here is my first principle of foreign policy: good government at home'.. W E Gladstone
'A man's friendships are one of the best measures of his worth.'.. Charles Darwin
'He that undervalues himself will undervalue others, and he that undervalues others will oppress them'.. Samuel Johnson
'Men can only be happy when they do not assume that the object of life is happiness'.. George Orwell
'In times of joy, all of us wished we possessed a tail we could wag.'.. W H Auden