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Famous British Quotes
'Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children.'.. George Bernard Shaw
'Life is nothing but a competition to be the criminal rather than the victim.'.. Bertrand Russell
'Everywhere in life, the true question is not what we gain, but what we do.'.. Thomas Carlyle
'Talent, lying in the understanding, is often inherited; genius, being the action of reason or imagination, rarely or never'.. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
'It is the heart always that sees, before the head can see.'.. Thomas Carlyle
'Ask the right questions if you're to find the right answers.'.. Vanessa Redgrave
'Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.'.. Benjamin Disraeli
'All heiresses are beautiful.'.. John Dryden
'Science must have originated in the feeling that something was wrong.'.. Thomas Carlyle
'In English villages you turn over a stone and never know what might creep out'.. Agatha Christie
'Nothing is more obstinate than a fashionable consensus.'.. Margaret Thatcher
'Without frugality none can be rich, and with it very few would be poor.'.. Samuel Johnson
'There are grounds for cautious optimism that we may now be near the end of the search for the ultimate laws of nature.'.. Stephen Hawking
'One cannot really be a Catholic and grown up.'.. George Orwell
'A day wasted on others is not wasted on one's self.'.. Charles Dickens
'There are only two styles of portrait painting; the serious and the smirk.'.. Charles Dickens
'I'm all in favour of free expression provided it's kept rigidly under control.'.. Alan Bennett
'Anything for the quick life, as the man said when he took the situation at the lighthouse'.. Charles Dickens
'Parents are the bones on which children cut their teeth.'.. Peter Ustinov
'All political power is a trust'.. Charles James Fox
'Thank you for leaving us alone but giving us enough attention to boost our egos'.. Mick Jagger
'I think it is the responsibility of a citizen of any country to say what he thinks.'.. Harold Pinter
'Fortitude is the marshal of thought, the armor of the will, and the fort of reason.'.. Sir Francis Bacon
'What Youth deemed crystal, Age finds out was dew.'.. Robert Browning
'When you reach the top, that's when the climb begins.'.. Michael Caine
'All men are liable to error; and most men are, in many points, by passion or interest, under temptation to it.'.. John Locke
'I dont understand the French. These are people with a town called Brest and none of them think its funny'.. Al Murray
'Justice delayed is justice denied.'.. W E Gladstone
'TV is as injurious to the soul as fast food is to the body'.. Quentin Crisp
'I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires, rather than in attempting to satisfy them.'.. John Stuart Mill