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Famous British Quotes
'The future is purchased by the present.'.. Samuel Johnson
'As far as I am concerned the paint is the person. I want it to work for me just as flesh does.'.. Lucien Freud
'Man has almost constant occasion for the help of his brethren, and it is in vain for him to expect it from their benevolence only.'.. Adam Smith
'Business today consists in persuading crowds.'.. T S Eliot
'The silliest woman can manage a clever man; but it needs a very clever woman to manage a fool.'.. Rudyard Kipling
'And the White Album is important to me for different reasons. One - I had left the band on the White Album.'.. Ringo Starr
'Let us reform our schools, and we shall find little reform needed in our prisons'.. John Ruskin
'He who has health, has hope; and he who has hope, has everything.'.. Thomas Carlyle
'Woman begins by resisting a man's advances and ends by blocking his retreat.'.. Oscar Wilde
'I thought how unpleasant it is to be locked out; and I thought how it is worse, perhaps, to be locked in.'.. Virginia Woolf
'I count religion but a childish toy, and hold there is no sin but ignorance.'.. Christopher Marlowe
'Ending a sentence with a preposition is something up with which I will not put.'.. Winston Churchill
'As people are walking all the time, in the same spot, a path appears.'.. John Locke
'If you are ever in doubt as to whether to kiss a pretty girl, always give her the benefit of the doubt.'.. Thomas Carlyle
'Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.'.. Winston Churchill
'Integrity is so perishable in the summer months of success.'.. Vanessa Redgrave
'I look upon every day to be lost, in which I do not make a new acquaintance'.. Samuel Johnson
'I can imagine no more comfortable frame of mind than a humorous resignation'.. Somerset Maugham
'Nothing that is morally wrong can be politically right.'.. W E Gladstone
'The land of my fathers. My fathers can have it.'.. Dylan Thomas
'We have forty million reasons for failure, but not a single excuse.'.. Rudyard Kipling
'A man who does not think for himself does not think at all.'.. Oscar Wilde
'Full, saturated colours have an emotional significance I want to avoid.'.. Lucien Freud
'A person may cause evil to others not only by his actions but by his inaction'.. John Stuart Mill
'Be thine own palace, or the world's thy jail.'.. John Donne
'Thieves respect property - they merely wish it to become their property'.. GK Chesterton
'The trouble with orgies is that you have to spend so much time holding your stomach in'.. Sir John Mortimer
'It is my settled opinion that no one is attracted to a political career in the first place unless he is socially or emotionally crippled'.. Auberon Waugh
'Books shouldn't be daunting,they should be funny,exciting & wonderful'.. Roald Dahl
'The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost.'.. GK Chesterton