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Famous British Quotes
'A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing'.. George Bernard Shaw
'A nation trying to tax itself to prosperity is rather like a man standing in a bucket and trying to lift himself up by the handle'.. Winston Churchill
'There is no comparison between that which is lost by not succeeding and that which is lost by not trying.'.. Sir Francis Bacon
'Now is the age of anxiety.'.. W H Auden
'I don't know half of you half as well as I should like; and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve.'.. J R R Tolkien
'The principle of the Gothic architecture is infinity made imaginable.'.. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
'Advertising is legalized lying.'.. H G Wells
'Corruption is nature's way of restoring our faith in democracy.'.. Peter Ustinov
'That's all drugs and alcohol do, they cut off your emotions in the end.'.. Ringo Starr
'Fortitude is the marshal of thought, the armor of the will, and the fort of reason.'.. Sir Francis Bacon
'This lady is not for turning.'.. Margaret Thatcher
'Without frugality none can be rich, and with it very few would be poor.'.. Samuel Johnson
'I've never intended to be controversial but it's very easy to be controversial in pop music because nobody ever is'.. Morrissey
'An idea, like a ghost, must be spoken to a little before it will explain itself.'.. Charles Dickens
'I've got a great ambition to die of exhaustion rather than boredom.'.. Thomas Carlyle
'After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.'.. Aldous Huxley
'A happy family is but an earlier heaven.'.. George Bernard Shaw
'War would end if the dead could return.'.. Stanley Baldwin
'The perfect love affair is one which is conducted entirely by post.'.. George Bernard Shaw
'Autumn wins you best by this its mute appeal to sympathy for its decay.'.. Robert Browning
'Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few.'.. Winston Churchill
'Experience is the child of thought, and thought is the child of action.'.. Benjamin Disraeli
'TV is as injurious to the soul as fast food is to the body'.. Quentin Crisp
'Education begins the gentleman, but reading, good company and reflection must finish him.'.. John Locke
'If you don't believe in God, all you have to believe in is decency.'.. Harold Macmillan
'It's bad taste to be wise all the time, like being at a perpetual funeral.'.. D H Lawrence
'It was easier to conquer it than to know what to do with it.'.. Horace Walpole
'Better to be without logic than without feeling.'.. Charlotte Bronte
'A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul.'.. George Bernard Shaw
'Never read print, it spoils one's eye for the ball.'.. W G Grace