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Famous British Quotes
'A happy family is but an earlier heaven.'.. George Bernard Shaw
'Fashion is what you adopt when you dont know who you are'.. Quentin Crisp
'At night, when the curtains are drawn and the fire flickers, my books attain a collective dignity.'.. E M Forster
'Farce is tragedy played at a thousand revolutions per minute.'.. Sir John Mortimer
'Greatness and goodness are not means, but ends.'.. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
'Man tends to increase at a greater rate than his means of subsistence.'.. Charles Darwin
'The real character of a man is found out by his amusements.'.. Joshua Reynolds
'Be thine own palace, or the world's thy jail.'.. John Donne
'Any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in Mankind; And therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee.'.. John Donne
'Justice and judgment lie often a world apart.'.. Emmeline Pankhurst
'If you are cast in a different mould to the majority, it is no merit of yours: Nature did it.'.. Charlotte Bronte
'I do not want a husband who honours me as a queen, if he does not love me as a woman.'.. Elizabeth I
'What makes life dreary is the want of a motive.'.. George Eliot
'Happiness is not a possession to be prized, it is a quality of thought, a state of mind.'.. Daphne du Maurier
'It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent that survives. It is the one that is the most adaptable to change.'.. Charles Darwin
'In trouble to be troubled, Is to have your trouble doubled.'.. Daniel Defoe
'Any truth is better than indefinite doubt.'.. Arthur Conan Doyle
'Let not England forget her precedence of teaching nations how to live'.. John Milton
'If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear'.. George Orwell
'Islington is about as far as you can get from London without needing yellow-fever jabs'.. A A Gill
'There is nothing constant in this world but inconsistency.'.. Jonathan Swift
'From the middle of life onward, only he remains vitally alive who is ready to die with life'.. Samuel Johnson
'We build too many walls and not enough bridges.'.. Isaac Newton
'A widespread taste for pornography means that nature is alerting us to some threat of extinction'.. James G Ballard
'A platitude is simply a truth repeated till people get tired of hearing it.'.. Stanley Baldwin
'Dorchester - A very agreeable town to live in'.. Daniel Defoe
'The things most people want to know about are usually none of their business.'.. George Bernard Shaw
'The difference between Socrates and Jesus? The great conscious and the immeasurably great unconscious'.. Thomas Carlyle
'The hardest part of sailing round the world? Stepping on dry land'.. Ellen MacArthur
'Writers should be read, but neither seen nor heard.'.. Daphne du Maurier