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Famous British Quotes
'Great things are done when men and mountains meet.'.. William Blake
'Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.'.. Benjamin Disraeli
'Everywhere in life, the true question is not what we gain, but what we do.'.. Thomas Carlyle
'The most happy marriage I can picture or imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman'.. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
'Errors are not in the art but in the artificers.'.. Isaac Newton
'Dancing is a perpendicular expression of a horizontal desire.'.. George Bernard Shaw
'Men marry because they are tired; women, because they are curious; both are disappointed'.. Oscar Wilde
'Laughter would be bereaved if snobbery died.'.. Peter Ustinov
'It's so easy for propaganda to work, and dissent to be mocked.'.. Harold Pinter
'There are books of which the backs and covers are by far the best parts.'.. Charles Dickens
'I remain just one thing, and one thing only, and that is a clown. It places me on a far higher plane than any politician.'.. Charlie Chaplin
'Patriotism is an instant reaction that fades away when the war starts'.. Mick Jagger
'Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.'.. Edmund Burke
'A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing'.. George Bernard Shaw
'If you carry your childhood with you, you never become older.'.. Sir Tom Stoppard
'He threatens many that hath injured one'.. Ben Jonson
'Show me the man you honor, and I will know what kind of man you are.'.. Thomas Carlyle
''Tis love that makes the world go round'.. Charles Dickens
'With two small children, I haven't had a wash since 2001 so the chance to go shopping is way down the list. It is something I do intend to get'.. Jo Brand
'We are a small country with a large sense of its own importance'.. David Walliams
'Our true nationality is mankind.'.. H G Wells
'I can only go one way. I've not got a reverse gear.'.. Tony Blair
'What is reading, but silent conversation.'.. Charles Lamb
'The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good'.. Samuel Johnson
'As love without esteem is capricious and volatile; esteem without love is languid and cold.'.. Jonathan Swift
'Soldiers are citizens of death's grey land, drawing no dividend from time's tomorrows'.. Siegfried Sassoon
'You can preach a better sermon with your life than with your lips.'.. Oliver Goldsmith
'You can lead a horse to water, but a pencil must be led.'.. Stan Laurel
'I like to drink to suit my location.'.. Tom Jones
'Not on one strand are all life's jewels strung.'.. William Morris