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Famous British Quotes
'Concentrate all your thoughts upon the work at hand. The sun's rays do not burn until brought to a focus.'.. Alexander Graham Bell
'You cannot teach old dogs new tricks.'.. Joseph Chamberlain
'I like to give my inhibitions a bath now and then.'.. Oliver Reed
'Nothing builds self-esteem and self-confidence like accomplishment'.. Thomas Carlyle
'Swansea - Ugh, Lovely town'.. Dylan Thomas
'Without humility there can be no humanity.'.. John Buchan
'If you set out to be liked, you would be prepared to compromise on anything at any time, and you would achieve nothing'.. Margaret Thatcher
'I'm not afraid of death but I am afraid of dying. Pain can be alleviated by morphine but the pain of social ostracism cannot be taken away'.. Derek Jarman
'Life, as I discovered, holds no more wretched occupation than trying to make the English laugh.'.. Malcolm Muggeridge
'A mere copier of nature can never produce anything great.'.. Joshua Reynolds
'I am a lover of truth, a worshipper of freedom, a celebrant at the altar of language and purity and tolerance.'.. Stephen Fry
'We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience'.. George Bernard Shaw
'Advertising is legalized lying.'.. H G Wells
'I have frequently gained my first real insight into the character of parents by studying their children'.. Arthur Conan Doyle
'Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable'.. Sir Francis Bacon
'And yet to every bad there is a worse.'.. Thomas Hardy
'Money doesn't mind if we say it's evil, it goes from strength to strength. It's a fiction, an addiction, and a tacit conspiracy'.. Martin Amis
'We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.'.. Winston Churchill
'Everyone seems to fear dying alone. I have never understood this - who wants to die and be polite at the same time'.. Quentin Crisp
'That's all drugs and alcohol do, they cut off your emotions in the end.'.. Ringo Starr
'No ghost was ever seen by two pairs of eyes.'.. Thomas Carlyle
'A fishing rod is a stick with a hook at one end and a fool at the other'.. Samuel Johnson
'Sleep, that deplorable curtailment of the joy of life.'.. Virginia Woolf
'All war represents a failure of diplomacy.'.. Tony Benn
'Poverty of course is no disgrace, but it is damned annoying.'.. William Pitt (The Younger)
'You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.'.. C S Lewis
'Confidence is a plant of slow growth in an aged heart.'.. William Pitt (The Younger)
'I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many unsigned poems, was a woman'.. Virginia Woolf
'Imagination is a poor matter when it has to part company with understanding'.. Thomas Carlyle
'Beaumaris is second to none'.. George Borrow