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Famous British Quotes
'The real character of a man is found out by his amusements.'.. Joshua Reynolds
'A well-written life is almost as rare as a well-spent one.'.. Thomas Carlyle
'Henley is the Venice of the South'.. Boris Johnson
'This is the first age that's ever paid much attention to the future, which is a little ironic since we may not have one'.. Arthur C Clarke
'I want to live my life so that my nights are not full of regrets.'.. D H Lawrence
'It is most unwise for people in love to marry.'.. George Bernard Shaw
'Money doesn't mind if we say it's evil, it goes from strength to strength. It's a fiction, an addiction, and a tacit conspiracy'.. Martin Amis
'Asia is not going to be civilized after the methods of the West. There is too much Asia and she is too old.'.. Rudyard Kipling
'Every saint has a past and every sinner has a future.'.. Oscar Wilde
'God hangs the greatest weights upon the smallest wires.'.. Sir Francis Bacon
'The delicate balance between modesty and conceit is popularity.'.. Max Beerbohm
'Illusion is the first of all pleasures.'.. Oscar Wilde
'A celebrity is one who is known to many persons he is glad he doesn't know'.. Lord Byron
'For my part, I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move.'.. Robert Louis Stevenson
'Advertising is the rattling of a stick inside a swill bucket.'.. George Orwell
'Serious sport is war minus the shooting.'.. George Orwell
'There are some ideas so wrong that only a very intelligent person could believe in them'.. George Orwell
'Find enough clever things to say, and you're a Prime Minister; write them down and you're a Shakespeare'.. George Bernard Shaw
'To see a world in a grain of sand and heaven in a wild flower Hold infinity in the palms of your hand and eternity in an hour'.. William Blake
'That we must all die, we always knew; I wish I had remembered it sooner.'.. Samuel Johnson
'Parting is such sweet sorrow.'.. William Shakespeare
'If the misery of the poor be caused not by the laws of nature, but by our institutions, great is our sin.'.. Charles Darwin
'It's a poor sort of memory that only works backwards.'.. Lewis Carroll
'From a drop of water a logician could infer the possibility of an Atlantic or a Niagara without having seen or heard of one or the other.'.. Arthur Conan Doyle
'One should always play fairly when one has the winning cards.'.. Oscar Wilde
'A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing'.. George Bernard Shaw
'There's nothing as ordinary as to try to be extraodinary'.. Noel Coward
'Better the rudest work that tells a story or records a fact, than the richest without meaning'.. John Ruskin
'Papa, potatoes, poultry, prunes and prism, are all very good words for the lips.'.. Charles Dickens
'Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing.'.. Oscar Wilde