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Famous British Quotes
'Invention is the talent of youth, as judgment is of age.'.. Jonathan Swift
'Long run is a misleading guide to current affairs. In the long run we are all dead.'.. John Maynard Keynes
'A lot of football success is in the mind. You must believe you are the best and then make sure that you are.'.. Bill Shankly
'Chastity - the most unnatural of all the sexual perversions.'.. Aldous Huxley
'Those who don't believe in magic will never find it'.. Roald Dahl
'A good thing never ends.'.. Mick Jagger
'They can't censor the gleam in my eye.'.. Charles Laughton
'Each generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it'.. George Orwell
'The first and simplest emotion which we discover in the human mind, is curiosity.'.. Edmund Burke
'It is curious that every creed promises a paradise on death which is unthinkable for anyone of taste'.. Evelyn Waugh
'I like work; it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours.'.. Jerome K Jerome
'Life, an age to the miserable, and a moment to the happy.'.. Sir Francis Bacon
'Subdue your appetites, my dears, and you've conquered human nature.'.. Charles Dickens
'A smile abroad is often a scowl at home.'.. Alfred Lord Tennyson
'Life is what happens while you are busy making other plans.'.. John Lennon
'I do not believe that friends are necessarily the people you like best, they are merely the people who got there first'.. Peter Ustinov
'Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught'.. Oscar Wilde
'The trouble with political jokes is that they get elected'.. Tim Brooke-Taylor
'Adapt or perish, now as ever, is nature's inexorable imperative.'.. H G Wells
'Nothing, like something, happens anywhere.'.. Philip Larkin
'America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between'.. Oscar Wilde
'Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies.'.. John Donne
'The very essence of instinct is that it's followed independently of reason.'.. Charles Darwin
'I think computer viruses should count as life. I think it says something about human nature that the only form of life we have created so far is purely destructive. We've created life in our own image.'.. Stephen Hawking
'The poetry of the earth is never dead.'.. John Keats
'I always knew that if all else failed I could become an actor. And all else failed'.. David Niven
'It is not so much that the world has got so much worse but that news coverage has got so much better'.. GK Chesterton
'Tact is the art of making a point without making an enemy.'.. Isaac Newton
'Nurture your minds with great thoughts. To believe in the heroic makes heroes'.. Benjamin Disraeli
'A good book is the precious lifeblood of a master spirit.'.. John Milton