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Famous British Quotes
'When childhood dies, its corpses are called adults.'.. Brian Aldiss
'I am one of those who would rather sink with faith than swim without it.'.. Stanley Baldwin
'A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty'.. Winston Churchill
'To be blind is not miserable; not to be able to bear blindness, that is miserable'.. John Milton
'Be not afraid of greatness: some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them'.. William Shakespeare
'The light, that lies In woman's eyes, Has been my heart's undoing.'.. Thomas More
'Never hold discussions with the monkey when the organ grinder is in the room.'.. Winston Churchill
'It's not the having, it's the getting.'.. Elizabeth Taylor
'Unless we remember we cannot understand.'.. E M Forster
'Despair is a narcotic. It lulls the mind into indifference.'.. Charlie Chaplin
'Life is a progress from want to want, not from enjoyment to enjoyment.'.. Samuel Johnson
'Assassination has never changed the history of the world.'.. Benjamin Disraeli
'If there was nothing wrong in the world there wouldn't be anything for us to do.'.. George Bernard Shaw
'It is sometimes necessary to lie damnably in the interests of the nation'.. Hilaire Belloc
'Tact is the art of making a point without making an enemy.'.. Isaac Newton
'Broadly speaking, the short words are the best, and the old words best of all.'.. Winston Churchill
'The very essence of instinct is that it's followed independently of reason.'.. Charles Darwin
'I know not, sir, whether Bacon wrote the works of Shakespeare, but if he did not, it seems to me that he missed the opportunity of his life.'.. J M Barrie
'A solitary laugh is often a laugh of superiority.'.. Graham Greene
'In our time political speech and writing are largely the defense of the indefensible'.. George Orwell
'Filth and old age, I'm sure you will agree, are powerful wardens upon chastity.'.. Geoffrey Chaucer
'Fortunate indeed the child who first sees the light of day in that romantic town'.. Andrew Carnegie
'Flying is learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.'.. Douglas Adams
'There but for the grace of God goes God'.. Winston Churchill
'There's nothing glorious in dying. Anyone can do it'.. John Lydon (Johnny Rotten)
'Chastity - the most unnatural of all the sexual perversions.'.. Aldous Huxley
'Learn from your dreams what you lack.'.. W H Auden
'The fickleness of the women I love is only equalled by the infernal constancy of the women who love me'.. George Bernard Shaw
'Justice and judgment lie often a world apart.'.. Emmeline Pankhurst
'I am humble enough to know I have made mistakes but politically astute enough to know that I have forgotten what they are'.. Michael Heseltine