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Famous British Quotes
'When I am dead, I hope it may be said: His sins were scarlet, but his books were read'.. Hilaire Belloc
'The worst moment for the atheist is when he is really thankful and has nobody to thank.'.. Dante G Rossetti
'One should always be in love. That is the reason one should never marry.'.. Oscar Wilde
'No bird soars too high if he soars with his own wings.'.. William Blake
'Better three hours too soon than a minute too late.'.. William Shakespeare
'Peace rules the day, where reason rules the mind.'.. Wilkie Collins
'When you choose your friends, don't be short-changed by choosing personality over character.'.. Somerset Maugham
'God is the perfect poet.'.. Robert Browning
'Literature is strewn with the wreckage of men who have minded beyond reason the opinions of others'.. Virginia Woolf
'If I decide to be indecisive, that's my decision.'.. Roger McGough
'One might well say that mankind is divisible into two great classes: hosts and guests'.. Max Beerbohm
'Lies are sufficient to breed opinion, and opinion brings on substance'.. Sir Francis Bacon
'What worries you, masters you.'.. John Locke
'That we must all die, we always knew; I wish I had remembered it sooner.'.. Samuel Johnson
'Compromise is the best and cheapest lawyer.'.. Robert Louis Stevenson
'I hate the word `hate`.'.. Peter Cushing
'What is wonderful about great literature is that it transforms the man who reads it towards the condition of the man who wrote.'.. E M Forster
'Sometimes the most positive thing you can be in a boring society is absolutely negative'.. John Lydon (Johnny Rotten)
'Life is ours to be spent, not to be saved.'.. D H Lawrence
'Deprivation is for me what daffodils were for Wordsworth.'.. Philip Larkin
'A family with the wrong members in control; that, perhaps, is as near as one can come to describing England in a phrase.'.. George Orwell
'I am not a heavy drinker. I can sometimes go for hours without touching a drop.'.. Noel Coward
'The shelf life of the modern hardback writer is somewhere between the milk and the yogurt'.. Sir John Mortimer
'Lack of money is the root of all evil.'.. George Bernard Shaw
'The function of posterity is to look after itself.'.. Dylan Thomas
'As a woman I have no country. As a woman my country is the whole world.'.. Virginia Woolf
'To refuse awards is another way of accepting them with more noise than is normal'.. Peter Ustinov
'You and I come by road or rail, but economists travel on infrastructure'.. Margaret Thatcher
'Like all great travellers, I have seen more than I remember, and remember more than I have seen.'.. Benjamin Disraeli
'Great discoveries and improvements invariably involve the cooperation of many minds'.. Alexander Graham Bell