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Famous British Quotes
'Every man dies. Not every man really lives.'.. William Wallace
'To sentence a man of true genius, to the drudgery of a school is to put a racehorse on a treadmill'.. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
'Death is just life's next big adventure.'.. J K Rowling
'The art galleries of Paris contain the finest collection of frames I ever saw'.. Humphry Davy
'In trouble to be troubled, Is to have your trouble doubled.'.. Daniel Defoe
'There are only four people who knew what the Beatles were about anyway.'.. Paul McCartney
'Language ought to be the joint creation of poets and manual workers'.. George Orwell
'Evil is unspectacular and always human, and shares our bed and eats at our own table.'.. W H Auden
'Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead'.. Oscar Wilde
'Life is a tragedy when seen in close-up, but a comedy in long-shot.'.. Charlie Chaplin
'A woman can be anything the man who loves her would have her be.'.. J M Barrie
'No ghost was ever seen by two pairs of eyes.'.. Thomas Carlyle
'Greenwich possesses the best air, the best prospect and the best conversation'.. Daniel Defoe
'I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by.'.. Douglas Adams
'Life is a progress from want to want, not from enjoyment to enjoyment.'.. Samuel Johnson
'Love works a different way in different minds, the fool it enlightens and the wise it blinds'.. John Dryden
'I thought I'd begin by reading a poem by Shakespeare, but then I thought, why should I? He never reads any of mine.'.. Spike Milligan
'What really matters is what you do with what you have.'.. H G Wells
'Other nations use 'force'; we Britons alone use 'Might'.'.. Evelyn Waugh
'Every man over forty is a scoundrel.'.. George Bernard Shaw
'The average Englishman goes 6 months without crying depending on the Football results'.. Frank Skinner
'Man's silence is wonderful to listen to.'.. Thomas Hardy
'A loving heart is the truest wisdom.'.. Charles Dickens
'If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.'.. Virginia Woolf
'Memorial services are the cocktail parties of the geriatric set.'.. Harold Macmillan
'In human relationships, kindness and lies are worth a thousand truths'.. Graham Greene
'I never saw an ugly thing in my life: for let the form of an object be what it may, - light, shade, and perspective will always make it beautiful'.. John Constable
'Superhuman effort isn't worth a damn unless it achieves results.'.. Ernest Shackleton
'Better belly burst than good liquor be lost.'.. Jonathan Swift
'May you live every day of your life.'.. Jonathan Swift