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Famous British Quotes
'How paramount the future is to the present when one is surrounded by children.'.. Charles Darwin
'Suspense is worse than disappointment.'.. Robert Burns
'The very essence of instinct is that it's followed independently of reason.'.. Charles Darwin
'Fortune brings in some boats that are not steered.'.. William Shakespeare
'Any fool can write a novel but it takes real genius to sell it.'.. James G Ballard
'Corruption never has been compulsory.'.. Anthony Eden
'Tolerance is another word for indifference.'.. Somerset Maugham
'The art galleries of Paris contain the finest collection of frames I ever saw'.. Humphry Davy
'Three minutes thought would suffice to sort this out but thought is irksome and three minutes is a long time'.. A E Housman
'Love works a different way in different minds, the fool it enlightens and the wise it blinds'.. John Dryden
'There might be 1 finger on the button, but there will be 15 fingers on the safety catch'.. Harold Macmillan
'One should always play fairly when one has the winning cards.'.. Oscar Wilde
'If you can't annoy somebody, there's little point in writing.'.. Sir Kingsley Amis
'Life contains but two tragedies. One is not to get your heart's desire; the other is to get it.'.. George Bernard Shaw
'One of the disadvantages of wine is that it makes a man mistake words for thoughts.'.. Samuel Johnson
'Man is the creature of circumstances.'.. Robert Owen
'Deer hunting would be a fine sport if only the deer had guns'.. W S Gilbert
'A man can be happy with any woman as long as he does not love her'.. Oscar Wilde
'The trouble with children is that they are non-returnable'.. Quentin Crisp
'We know what happens to people who stay in the middle of the road. They get run down.'.. Aneurin Bevan
'Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable'.. Sir Francis Bacon
'Friendship is Love without his wings'.. Lord Byron
'The first and simplest emotion which we discover in the human mind, is curiosity.'.. Edmund Burke
'Originality is a thing we constantly clamour for, and constantly quarrel with.'.. Thomas Carlyle
'Civilisation is the distance man has put between himself and his excreta'.. Brian Aldiss
'Good sense about trivialities is better than nonsense about things that matter'.. Max Beerbohm
'The purpose of getting power is to be able to give it away'.. Aneurin Bevan
'I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite'.. GK Chesterton
'It is a mistake to look too far ahead. Only one link of the chain of destiny can be handled at a time'.. Winston Churchill
'Superhuman effort isn't worth a damn unless it achieves results.'.. Ernest Shackleton