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Famous British Quotes
'If thou woudst view fair Melrose aright, go visit it by the pale moonlight'.. Walter Scott
'A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life.'.. Charles Darwin
'I desire no future that will break the ties with the past.'.. George Eliot
'Lack of money is the root of all evil.'.. George Bernard Shaw
'Religion stands, the Church blocking the sun.'.. Stephen Spender
'It's bad taste to be wise all the time, like being at a perpetual funeral.'.. D H Lawrence
'Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.'.. Benjamin Disraeli
'Disease generally begins that equality which death completes.'.. Samuel Johnson
'A woman, the more curious she is about her face, is commonly the more careless about her house.'.. Ben Jonson
'Everyone who wants to do good to the human race always ends in universal bullying'.. Aldous Huxley
'It is always the best policy to speak the truth, unless, of course, you are an exceptionally good lia'.. Jerome K Jerome
'Dangerous foreigners begin at Calais and dont stop until you get to Bombay where they play cricket and speak English'.. Clement Attlee
'The courage we desire and prize is not the courage to die decently, but to live manfully'.. Thomas Carlyle
'Thank goodness I was never sent to school; it would have rubbed off some of the originality.'.. Beatrix Potter
'It is the nature of all greatness not to be exact.'.. Edmund Burke
'The shelf life of the modern hardback writer is somewhere between the milk and the yogurt'.. Sir John Mortimer
'Youth smiles without any reason. It is one of its chiefest charms.'.. Thomas Gray
'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
'Anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job.'.. Douglas Adams
'Anybody who's been married to a man for forty odd years knows he's all talk'.. Michael Parkinson
'I do not believe in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.'.. Thomas Carlyle
'Happiness never lays its finger on its pulse.'.. Adam Smith
'My wife is a sex object - every time I ask for sex, she objects.'.. Les Dawson
'The trouble with children is that they are non-returnable'.. Quentin Crisp
'Such as we are made of, such we be.'.. William Shakespeare
'If we open a quarrel between past and present, we shall find that we have lost the future'.. Winston Churchill
'I dont believe in God but I am very interested in Her'.. Arthur C Clarke
'Genius not only diagnoses the situation but supplies the answers.'.. Robert Graves
'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
'Life, an age to the miserable, and a moment to the happy.'.. Sir Francis Bacon