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Famous British Quotes
'My favourite musical instrument is the telephone'.. Quentin Crisp
'Love-making is an art which must be studied.'.. Ivor Novello
'You can give without loving, but you can never love without giving.'.. Robert Louis Stevenson
'Both read the Bible day and night, but thou read black where I read white'.. William Blake
'Many a man is praised for his reserve and so-called shyness when he is simply too proud to risk making a fool of himself.'.. J B Priestley
'Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go.'.. Oscar Wilde
'Do not try to live forever. You will not succeed.'.. George Bernard Shaw
'He who has health, has hope; and he who has hope, has everything.'.. Thomas Carlyle
'Let sleeping dogs lie.'.. Robert Walpole
'A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul.'.. George Bernard Shaw
'The stars, that nature hung in heaven, and filled their lamps with everlasting oil, give due light to the misled and lonely traveller'.. John Milton
'I never knew a man come to greatness or eminence who lay abed late in the morning.'.. Jonathan Swift
'Certainly nothing is unnatural that is not physically impossible.'.. Richard Sheridan
'For truth is always strange; stranger than fiction.'.. Lord Byron
'I have a memory like an elephant. In fact, elephants often consult me.'.. Noel Coward
'Before anything else, preparation is the key to success.'.. Alexander Graham Bell
'Responsibilities gravitate to the person who can shoulder them.'.. Sir Tom Stoppard
'Progress everywhere today does seem to come so very heavily disguised as Chaos'.. Joyce Grenfell
'A man may be so much of everything that he is nothing of anything.'.. Samuel Johnson
'It is not so much that the world has got so much worse but that news coverage has got so much better'.. GK Chesterton
'True happiness consists not in the multitude of friends, but in the worth and choice.'.. Ben Jonson
'He that undervalues himself will undervalue others, and he that undervalues others will oppress them'.. Samuel Johnson
'Everyone ought to bear patiently the results of his own conduct.'.. William Shakespeare
'Give him enough rope and he will hang himself.'.. Charlotte Bronte
'Time is but the shadow of the world upon the background of Eternity.'.. Jerome K Jerome
'A work of art is the unique result of a unique temperament.'.. Oscar Wilde
'It wasn't until late in life that I discovered how easy it is to say "I don't know."'.. Somerset Maugham
'Have a heart that never hardens, and a temper that never tires, and a touch that never hurts.'.. Charles Dickens
'Nothing, like something, happens anywhere.'.. Philip Larkin
'I have always thought the actions of men the best interpreters of their thoughts.'.. John Locke