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Famous British Quotes
'A healthy attitude is contagious but don't wait to catch it from others. Be a carrier'.. Sir Tom Stoppard
'Familiar acts are beautiful through love.'.. Percy Bysshe Shelley
'Never argue; repeat your assertion.'.. Robert Owen
'It has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all the others that have been tried'.. Winston Churchill
'A real book is not one that we read, but one that reads us.'.. W H Auden
'The true secret of happiness lies in taking a genuine interest in all the details of daily life.'.. William Morris
'Like all great travellers, I have seen more than I remember, and remember more than I have seen.'.. Benjamin Disraeli
'The only fence against the world is a thorough knowledge of it.'.. John Locke
'Think of the man who first tasted German Sausage'.. Jerome K Jerome
'A man lives by believing something: not by debating and arguing about many things.'.. Thomas Carlyle
'There's nothing as ordinary as to try to be extraodinary'.. Noel Coward
'Mankind is not likely to salvage civilization unless he can evolve a system of good and evil which is independent of heaven and hell'.. George Orwell
'Errors are not in the art but in the artificers.'.. Isaac Newton
'History shows that the majority of people that have done anything great have passed their youth in seclusion'.. Thomas Carlyle
'Milford Haven - the finest port of Christendom'.. Horatio Nelson
'Anyone can tell the truth, but only very few of us can make epigrams.'.. Somerset Maugham
'Catholics are just protestants protesting against protestantism'.. D H Lawrence
'Oh, 'tis love, 'tis love that makes the world go round.'.. Lewis Carroll
'It was a very simple team talk. All I used to say was: 'Whenever possible, give the ball to George'.. Matt Busby
'A week is a long time in politics.'.. Harold Wilson
'In heaven an angel is nobody in particular.'.. George Bernard Shaw
'To make your children capable of honesty is the beginning of education.'.. John Ruskin
'Do what you will, this world's a fiction and is made up of contradiction'.. William Blake
'I am humble enough to know I have made mistakes but politically astute enough to know that I have forgotten what they are'.. Michael Heseltine
'A neurosis is a secret that you don't know you are keeping.'.. Kenneth Tynan
'In Italy the whole country is a theatre and the worst actors are on the stage'.. George Bernard Shaw
'The marvelous thing about a joke with a double meaning is that it can only mean one thing'.. Ronnie Barker
'Better never than late.'.. George Bernard Shaw
'One leak will sink a ship: and one sin will destroy a sinner.'.. John Bunyan
'The world is a stage, but the play is badly cast.'.. Oscar Wilde