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Famous British Quotes
'Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.'.. Samuel Johnson
'Do not try to live forever. You will not succeed.'.. George Bernard Shaw
'Wine is bottled poetry.'.. Robert Louis Stevenson
'It is better to lose health like a spendthrift than to waste it like a miser.'.. Robert Louis Stevenson
'How long was I in the army? Five foot eleven.'.. Spike Milligan
'Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children.'.. George Bernard Shaw
'You shall judge a man by his foes as well as by his friends.'.. Joseph Conrad
'Adversity is the first path to truth.'.. Lord Byron
'If all the economists were laid end to end, they'd never reach a conclusion'.. George Bernard Shaw
'Music is the best means we have of digesting time.'.. W H Auden
'Sometimes when you're drunk you can see better.'.. Damien Hirst
'You may travel the world over but you will find nowhere more beautiful; It is so restful, so colourful and so unspoilt (Tenby)'.. Augustus John
'What I am looking for is a blessing not in disguise.'.. Jerome K Jerome
'Life is nothing but a competition to be the criminal rather than the victim.'.. Bertrand Russell
'Do what you will, this world's a fiction and is made up of contradiction'.. William Blake
'The creative habit is like a drug. The particular obsession changes, but the excitement, the thrill of your creation lasts'.. Henry Moore
'He that is taught only by himself has a fool for a master'.. Ben Jonson
'Good company and good discourse are the very sinews of virtue.'.. Izaak Walton
'I don't ever blink, honestly.'.. Ridley Scott
'Give him enough rope and he will hang himself.'.. Charlotte Bronte
'Every great person is always being helped by everybody; for their gift is to get good out of all things and all persons.'.. John Ruskin
'A work of art is the unique result of a unique temperament.'.. Oscar Wilde
'Time is everything; five minutes make the difference between victory and defeat'.. Horatio Nelson
'I love a scary movie. It makes your toes curl and it's not you going through it.'.. Sir Anthony Hopkins
'How much easier it is to be critical than to be correct.'.. Benjamin Disraeli
'I'll give you my opinion of the human race in a nutshell... their heart's in the right place, but their head is a thoroughly inefficient organ.'.. Somerset Maugham
'Independence? That's middle class blasphemy. We are all dependent on one another, every soul of us on earth.'.. George Bernard Shaw
'To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.'.. Oscar Wilde
'Keep your faith in God, but keep your powder dry.'.. Oliver Cromwell
'I don't pretend we have all the answers. But the questions are certainly worth thinking about.'.. Arthur C Clarke