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Famous British Quotes
'Feelings are like chemicals, the more you analyze them the worse they smell.'.. Charles Kingsley
'The block of granite which was an obstacle in the pathway of the weak, became a stepping-stone in the pathway of the strong.'.. Thomas Carlyle
'The light, that lies In woman's eyes, Has been my heart's undoing.'.. Thomas More
'If you carry your childhood with you, you never become older.'.. Sir Tom Stoppard
'All men have an instinct for conflict: at least, all healthy men.'.. Hilaire Belloc
'Adapt or perish, now as ever, is nature's inexorable imperative.'.. H G Wells
'Wonders will never cease.'.. David Garrick
'What makes life dreary is the want of a motive.'.. George Eliot
'To be blind is not miserable; not to be able to bear blindness, that is miserable'.. John Milton
'Parting is such sweet sorrow.'.. William Shakespeare
'It is not real work unless you would rather be doing something else.'.. J M Barrie
'I find Cambridge an asylum, in every sense of the word.'.. A E Housman
'A young man who isn't a socialist hasn't got a heart; an old man who is a socialist hasn't got a head.'.. David Lloyd George
'If at first you don’t succeed, failure may be your style'.. Quentin Crisp
'He who praises everybody, praises nobody.'.. Samuel Johnson
'Dictators free themselves, but they enslave the people.'.. Charlie Chaplin
'Never hold discussions with the monkey when the organ grinder is in the room.'.. Winston Churchill
'Absences are a good influence in love and keep it bright and delicate.'.. Robert Louis Stevenson
'Laugharne - timeless, beautiful, barmy town'.. Dylan Thomas
'All mankind... being all equal and independent, no one ought to harm another in his life, health, liberty or possessions.'.. John Locke
'A happy family is but an earlier heaven.'.. George Bernard Shaw
'Eating words has never given me indigestion.'.. Winston Churchill
'Although it is not true that all conservatives are stupid people, it is true that most stupid people are conservative'.. John Stuart Mill
'I look upon every day to be lost, in which I do not make a new acquaintance'.. Samuel Johnson
'Lawyers, I suppose, were children once.'.. Charles Lamb
'Lack of money is the root of all evil.'.. George Bernard Shaw
'My neighbour asked if he could use my lawnmower and I told him of course he could, so long as he didn't take it out of my garden.'.. Eric Morecambe
'Humour is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.'.. Virginia Woolf
'Our greatest glory consists not in never failing, but in rising every time we fall'.. Oliver Goldsmith
'There is no such thing as the pursuit of happiness, but there is the discovery of joy'.. Joyce Grenfell