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Famous British Quotes
'Only in Britain could it be thought a defect to be too clever by half. The probability is that too many people are too stupid by three-quarters.'.. John Major
'Looking back at all the people I have insulted, I am mildly surprised that I am still allowed to exist.'.. Auberon Waugh
'Nothing can cure the soul but the senses, just as nothing can cure the senses but the soul.'.. Oscar Wilde
'Suspense is worse than disappointment.'.. Robert Burns
'Conventionality is not morality.'.. Charlotte Bronte
'I didn't come into politics to change the Labour Party. I came into politics to change the country'.. Tony Blair
'Life appears to me too short to be spent in nursing animosity, or registering wrongs.'.. Charlotte Bronte
'We pay when old for the excesses of youth.'.. J B Priestley
'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
'I'd the upbringing a nun would envy. Until I was fifteen I was more familiar with Africa than my own body'.. Joe Orton
'Very few of us are what we seem'.. Agatha Christie
'You cannot teach old dogs new tricks.'.. Joseph Chamberlain
'He who has health, has hope; and he who has hope, has everything.'.. Thomas Carlyle
'Regrets are the natural property of grey hairs.'.. Charles Dickens
'Our own heart, and not other men's opinions form our true honor.'.. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
'I got nasty habits; I take tea at three.'.. Mick Jagger
'Writing is the supreme solace.'.. Somerset Maugham
'Silence is as deep as eternity, speech a shallow as time.'.. Thomas Carlyle
'We have forty million reasons for failure, but not a single excuse.'.. Rudyard Kipling
'Nurture your minds with great thoughts. To believe in the heroic makes heroes'.. Benjamin Disraeli
'We build too many walls and not enough bridges.'.. Isaac Newton
'Fond memory brings the light of other days around me.'.. Thomas More
'The love of a mother is the veil of a softer light between the heart and the heavenly Father'.. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
'The palace is not safe when the cottage is not happy.'.. Benjamin Disraeli
'A man does not know what he is saying until he knows what he is not saying'.. GK Chesterton
'Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point.'.. C S Lewis
'Man is the only creature that consumes without producing. He does not give milk, he does not lay eggs, he is too weak to pull the plough, he cannot run fast enough to catch rabbits. Yet he is lord of all the animals'.. George Orwell
'I am not conceited. It is just that I have a fondness for the good things in life and I happen to be one of them'.. Kenneth Williams
'Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested.'.. Sir Francis Bacon
'A real book is not one that we read, but one that reads us.'.. W H Auden