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Famous British Quotes
'Endurance is patience concentrated.'.. Thomas Carlyle
'An American monkey, after getting drunk on brandy, would never touch it again, and thus is much wiser than most men.'.. Charles Darwin
'Learn from your dreams what you lack.'.. W H Auden
'Like all great travellers, I have seen more than I remember, and remember more than I have seen.'.. Benjamin Disraeli
'A dream you dream alone is only a dream. A dream you dream together is reality'.. John Lennon
'I had lunch with a chess champion the other day. I knew he was a chess champion because it took him 20 minutes to pass the salt.'.. Eric Sykes
'All wealth is the product of labour.'.. John Locke
'To sentence a man of true genius, to the drudgery of a school is to put a racehorse on a treadmill'.. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
'Beware of snobbery; it is the unwelcome recognition of one's own past failings'.. Cary Grant
'Possession isn't nine-tenths of the law. It's nine-tenths of the problem'.. John Lennon
'Every man who is high up likes to think that he has done it all himself, and the wife smiles and lets it go at that'.. J M Barrie
'Prudence is a rich, ugly, old maid courted by incapacity.'.. William Blake
'Compromise is the best and cheapest lawyer.'.. Robert Louis Stevenson
'Beaumaris is second to none'.. George Borrow
'If you set out to be liked, you would be prepared to compromise on anything at any time, and you would achieve nothing'.. Margaret Thatcher
'When you choose your friends, don't be short-changed by choosing personality over character.'.. Somerset Maugham
'I can calculate the motion of heavenly bodies, but not the madness of people'.. Isaac Newton
'Life is nothing but a competition to be the criminal rather than the victim.'.. Bertrand Russell
'Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard are sweeter.'.. John Keats
'Don't talk to me about a man's being able to talk sense; everyone can talk sense. Can he talk nonsense?'.. William Pitt (The Younger)
'Mountains are the beginning and the end of all natural scenery.'.. John Ruskin
'Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons'.. Bertrand Russell
'Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant'.. Robert Louis Stevenson
'To do a great right do a little wrong.'.. William Shakespeare
'It is only in the world of objects that we have time and space and selves.'.. T S Eliot
'The one phrase imperative to know in any foreign language is My friend will pay'.. Alan Whicker
'The true definition of a snob is one who craves for what separates men rather than for what unites them'.. John Buchan
'Adversity is the first path to truth.'.. Lord Byron
'I don't watch television, I think it destroys the art of talking about oneself.'.. Stephen Fry
'A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool'.. William Shakespeare