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Famous British Quotes
'We first make our habits, and then our habits make us.'.. John Dryden
'Always be a little kinder than necessary.'.. J M Barrie
'Aim for the sky and you'll reach the ceiling. Aim for the ceiling and you'll stay on the floor.'.. Bill Shankly
'Be thine own palace, or the world's thy jail.'.. John Donne
'But better die than live mechanically a life that is a repetition of repetitions.'.. D H Lawrence
'What really matters is what you do with what you have.'.. H G Wells
'You know the worst thing about oral sex? The view.'.. Maureen Lipman
'Most people perform well in a crisis - when the spotlight is on them; it's on the Sunday afternoons of this life, when no-one is looking, that the spirit falters.'.. Alan Bennett
'I need no dictionary of quotations to remind me that the eyes are the windows of the soul'.. Max Beerbohm
'There's no such thing as failure - just waiting for success.'.. John Osborne
'The profession of a prostitute is the only career in which the maximum income is paid to the newest apprentice'.. William Booth
'Life is like a very short visit to a toyshop between birth and death.'.. Desmond Morris
'I am in that temper that if I were under water I would scarcely kick to come to the top'.. John Keats
'Well, my wife and I were married in a toilet - it was a marriage of convenience!'.. Tommy Cooper
'I have frequently gained my first real insight into the character of parents by studying their children'.. Arthur Conan Doyle
'You don't have to be the Dalai Lama to tell people that life's about change'.. John Cleese
'I'd like to grow very old as slowly as possible.'.. Charles Lamb
'How much easier it is to be critical than to be correct.'.. Benjamin Disraeli
'There is much to be said for failure. It is much more interesting than success.'.. Max Beerbohm
'Fortitude is the marshal of thought, the armor of the will, and the fort of reason.'.. Sir Francis Bacon
'The saddest thing I can imagine is to get used to luxury.'.. Charlie Chaplin
'Evil is unspectacular and always human, and shares our bed and eats at our own table.'.. W H Auden
'Dunblane Cathedral - I know not of anything so perfect in its simplicity'.. John Ruskin
'There is a wisdom of the head, and a wisdom of the heart.'.. Charles Dickens
'Anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job.'.. Douglas Adams
'Rolf Harris is a difficult man to hate but that shouldnt stop us trying'.. A A Gill
'A man that hoards up riches and enjoys them not, is like an ass that carries gold and eats thistles'.. Richard Burton
'A wonderful fact to reflect upon, that every human creature is constituted to be that profound secret and mystery to every other.'.. Charles Dickens
'Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children.'.. George Bernard Shaw
'Now if the harvest is over, And the world cold, Give me the bonus of laughter, As I lose hold'.. John Betjeman