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Famous British Quotes
'An aim in life is the only fortune worth finding.'.. Robert Louis Stevenson
'Life was planned by a committee while the clever ones had popped out to the lav'.. Victoria Wood
'Boldness is a mask for fear, however great.'.. John Dryden
'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
'Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.'.. H G Wells
'When a thing's done, it's done, and if it's not done right, do it differently next time.'.. Arthur Ransome
'Do not allow to slip away from you freedoms the people who came before you won with such hard knocks.'.. D H Lawrence
'Youth would be an ideal state if it came a little later in life'.. Herbert Henry Asquith
'Almost every man wastes part of his life attempting to display qualities which he does not possess'.. Samuel Johnson
'To succeed with the opposite sex, tell her you're impotent. She can't wait to disprove it.'.. Cary Grant
'A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul.'.. George Bernard Shaw
'Justice and judgment lie often a world apart.'.. Emmeline Pankhurst
'An idea, like a ghost, must be spoken to a little before it will explain itself.'.. Charles Dickens
'Almost all crime is due to the repressed desire for aesthetic expression.'.. Evelyn Waugh
'Money can't buy you happiness but it does bring you a more pleasant form of misery.'.. Spike Milligan
'He that undervalues himself will undervalue others, and he that undervalues others will oppress them'.. Samuel Johnson
'I exist in a state of almost perpetual hysteria.'.. Sting
'Marriage is a very good thing, but I think it's a mistake to make a habit out of it.'.. Somerset Maugham
'I'm not as thrilled with myself as I used to be.'.. Oliver Reed
'Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go.'.. Oscar Wilde
'Chastity - the most unnatural of all the sexual perversions.'.. Aldous Huxley
'Always be a little kinder than necessary.'.. J M Barrie
'Every blessed one of you feels better for that burst of laughter.'.. Ivor Novello
'In Italy the whole country is a theatre and the worst actors are on the stage'.. George Bernard Shaw
'I am the only man who can say he has been in Take That and at least 2 members of the Spice Girls'.. Robbie Williams
'Contrariwise, if it was so, it might be; and if it were so, it would be; but as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic.'.. Lewis Carroll
'The individual is not accountable to society for his actions in so far as these concern the interests of no person but himself.'.. John Stuart Mill
'If I have done the public any service, it is due to my patient thought'.. Isaac Newton
'There is no instinct like that of the heart.'.. Lord Byron
'Gossip is what no one claims to like, but everybody enjoys.'.. Joseph Conrad