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Famous British Quotes
'When you reach the top, that's when the climb begins.'.. Michael Caine
'Fond memory brings the light of other days around me.'.. Thomas More
'Do not try to live forever. You will not succeed.'.. George Bernard Shaw
'There's no such thing as failure - just waiting for success.'.. John Osborne
'What worries you, masters you.'.. John Locke
'Could we teach taste or genius by rules, they would be no longer taste and genius'.. Joshua Reynolds
'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
'A horse is dangerous at both ends and uncomfortable in the middle.'.. Ian Fleming
'Man is only great when he acts from passion.'.. Benjamin Disraeli
'If we don't end war, war will end us.'.. H G Wells
'Now is the age of anxiety.'.. W H Auden
'Put three Englishmen on a desert island and within an hour they will have invented a class system'.. Alan Ayckbourn
'To enjoy freedom we have to control ourselves.'.. Virginia Woolf
'History is a cyclic poem written by time upon the memories of man'.. Percy Bysshe Shelley
'Advertising is legalized lying.'.. H G Wells
'I don't need you to remind me of my age. I have a bladder to do that for me.'.. Stephen Fry
'People always make war when they say they love peace.'.. D H Lawrence
'Glasgow - The beautifullest little city I have seen in Britain'.. Daniel Defoe
'A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life.'.. Charles Darwin
'Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people'.. Oscar Wilde
'I like to drink to suit my location.'.. Tom Jones
'I sometimes think that being widowed is God's way of telling you to come off the Pill.'.. Victoria Wood
'A real book is not one that we read, but one that reads us.'.. W H Auden
'Never forget that only dead fish swim with the stream.'.. Malcolm Muggeridge
'A poem is true if it hangs together. Information points to something else. A poem points to nothing but itself'.. E M Forster
'Everywhere in life, the true question is not what we gain, but what we do.'.. Thomas Carlyle
'All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players'.. William Shakespeare
'The trouble with words is that you never know whose mouths they have been in.'.. Dennis Potter
'Credit is a system whereby a person who can not pay gets another person who can not pay to guarantee that he can pay.'.. Charles Dickens
'It takes courage to make a fool of yourself'.. Charlie Chaplin