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Famous British Quotes
'Everything's complicated, even those things that seem flat in their bleakness or sadness'.. Nick Hornby
'A real book is not one that we read, but one that reads us.'.. W H Auden
'All the world over, I will back the masses against the classes.'.. W E Gladstone
'If there ever comes a day when we can't be together, keep me in your heart, I'll stay there forever.'.. A A Milne
'Work is the curse of the drinking classes.'.. Oscar Wilde
'Adventure is not outside man; it is within.'.. George Eliot
'It is not reasonable that those who gamble with men's lives should not stake their own.'.. H G Wells
'Pleasure and action make the hours seem short.'.. William Shakespeare
'One should always be in love. That is the reason one should never marry.'.. Oscar Wilde
'People always make war when they say they love peace.'.. D H Lawrence
'He who has health, has hope; and he who has hope, has everything.'.. Thomas Carlyle
'England and America are two countries separated by the same language.'.. George Bernard Shaw
'If you can't annoy somebody, there's little point in writing.'.. Sir Kingsley Amis
'Having a great intellect is no path to being happy.'.. Stephen Fry
'History shows that the majority of people that have done anything great have passed their youth in seclusion'.. Thomas Carlyle
'Our true nationality is mankind.'.. H G Wells
'Rolf Harris is a difficult man to hate but that shouldnt stop us trying'.. A A Gill
'I doubt whether classical education ever has been or can be successfully carried out without corporal punishment'.. George Orwell
'If history were taught in the form of stories, it would never be forgotten'.. Rudyard Kipling
'Life is wasted on the living'.. Douglas Adams
'All great truths begin as blasphemies.'.. George Bernard Shaw
'A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.'.. Winston Churchill
'From the middle of life onward, only he remains vitally alive who is ready to die with life'.. Samuel Johnson
'Eating words has never given me indigestion.'.. Winston Churchill
'As love without esteem is capricious and volatile; esteem without love is languid and cold.'.. Jonathan Swift
'Good and bad men are less than they seem.'.. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
'Disease generally begins that equality which death completes.'.. Samuel Johnson
'I've always said there's a place for the press but they haven't dug it yet.'.. Tommy Docherty
'A yawn is a silent shout'.. GK Chesterton
'The greatest scholars are not usually the wisest people.'.. Geoffrey Chaucer