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Famous British Quotes
'I've got a great ambition to die of exhaustion rather than boredom.'.. Thomas Carlyle
'To an ordinary human being, love means nothing if it does not mean loving some people more than others'.. George Orwell
'I have two ambitions in life: one is to drink every pub dry, the other is to sleep with every woman on earth.'.. Oliver Reed
'When you've seen a nude infant doing a backward somersault you know why clothing exists'.. Stephen Fry
'Health is the state about which medicine has nothing to say.'.. W H Auden
'When I was young I thought that money was the most important thing in life; now that I am old I know that it is.'.. Oscar Wilde
'Life is far too important a thing ever to talk seriously about.'.. Oscar Wilde
'It was such a lovely day I thought it was a pity to get up'.. Somerset Maugham
'Time is but the shadow of the world upon the background of Eternity.'.. Jerome K Jerome
'I don't think Henry Kissinger would have lasted 48 hours at Old Trafford.'.. Tommy Docherty
'If a nation could not prosper without the enjoyment of perfect liberty and perfect justice, there is not in the world a nation which could ever have prospered.'.. Adam Smith
'I believe the first test of a truly great man is in his humility.'.. John Ruskin
'There is no real wealth but the labor of man.'.. Percy Bysshe Shelley
'It's not the voting that's democracy; it's the counting.'.. Sir Tom Stoppard
'Early in life I had noticed that no event is ever correctly reported in a newspaper'.. George Orwell
'All great and beautiful work has come of first gazing without shrinking into the darkness'.. John Ruskin
'I try to avoid looking forward or backward, and try to keep looking upward.'.. Charlotte Bronte
'Parting is such sweet sorrow.'.. William Shakespeare
'People always make war when they say they love peace.'.. D H Lawrence
'I am not aware that any community has a right to force another to be civilized.'.. John Stuart Mill
'During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act'.. George Orwell
'All men have an instinct for conflict: at least, all healthy men.'.. Hilaire Belloc
'Make all you can, save all you can, give all you can.'.. John Wesley
'A prudent question is one-half of wisdom.'.. Sir Francis Bacon
'If I decide to be indecisive, that's my decision.'.. Roger McGough
'He is the best physician who is the most ingenious inspirer of hope.'.. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
'At night, when the curtains are drawn and the fire flickers, my books attain a collective dignity.'.. E M Forster
'Unless we remember we cannot understand.'.. E M Forster
'The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age, which mean never losing your enthusiasm.'.. Aldous Huxley
'We give advice by the bucket, but take it by the grain.'.. Sir Tom Stoppard