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Famous British Quotes
'A man must make his opportunity, as oft as find it.'.. Sir Francis Bacon
'Now if the harvest is over, And the world cold, Give me the bonus of laughter, As I lose hold'.. John Betjeman
'Every noble work is at first impossible.'.. Thomas Carlyle
'TV is as injurious to the soul as fast food is to the body'.. Quentin Crisp
'There are some things only intellectuals are crazy enough to believe'.. George Orwell
'A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty'.. Winston Churchill
'Necessity has no law.'.. Oliver Cromwell
'Dunblane Cathedral - I know not of anything so perfect in its simplicity'.. John Ruskin
'Love-making is an art which must be studied.'.. Ivor Novello
'If you're going to make rubbish, be the best rubbish in it.'.. Richard Burton
'You know, somebody actually complimented me on my driving today. They left a little note on the windscreen, it said 'Parking Fine.''.. Tommy Cooper
'He who seeks rest finds boredom. He who seeks work finds rest.'.. Dylan Thomas
'A ruffled mind makes a restless pillow.'.. Charlotte Bronte
'I love everything that's old, - old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wine'.. Oliver Goldsmith
'Science is but an image of the truth.'.. Sir Francis Bacon
'The difference between Socrates and Jesus? The great conscious and the immeasurably great unconscious'.. Thomas Carlyle
'When everyone is somebody, then no one's anybody.'.. W S Gilbert
'Our greatest glory consists not in never failing, but in rising every time we fall'.. Oliver Goldsmith
'Wives are like gilt-edged stocks. The more you have, the greater your dividends.'.. Rex Harrison
'Not on one strand are all life's jewels strung.'.. William Morris
'My face looks like a wedding-cake left out in the rain.'.. W H Auden
'Absences are a good influence in love and keep it bright and delicate.'.. Robert Louis Stevenson
'Flying is learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.'.. Douglas Adams
'Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.'.. H G Wells
'The dreadful truth is that when people come to see their MP they have run out of better ideas'.. Boris Johnson
'Promises and pie-crust are made to be broken.'.. Jonathan Swift
'Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.'.. T S Eliot
'A faith is something you die for, a doctrine is something you kill for. There is all the difference in the world'.. Tony Benn
'History has remembered the kings and warriors, because they destroyed; art has remembered the people, because they created'.. William Morris
'Life is a progress from want to want, not from enjoyment to enjoyment.'.. Samuel Johnson