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Famous British Quotes
'You'll find that empty vessels make the most sound'.. John Lydon (Johnny Rotten)
'Except a living man, there is nothing more wonderful than a book.'.. Charles Kingsley
'Wine is bottled poetry.'.. Robert Louis Stevenson
'No man can be an agnostic who has a sense of humour.'.. E M Forster
'Parting is such sweet sorrow.'.. William Shakespeare
'All that a husband or wife really wants is to be pitied a little, praised a little, and appreciated a little'.. Oliver Goldsmith
'Gentleman do not throw wine at ladies. They pour it over them'.. Auberon Waugh
'The very essence of instinct is that it's followed independently of reason.'.. Charles Darwin
'For success, attitude is equally as important as ability.'.. Walter Scott
'We forge the chains we wear in life.'.. Charles Dickens
'The man's desire is for the woman; but the woman's desire is rarely other than for the desire of the man.'.. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
'Life’s never a postcard of life, is it? It never feels like how you’d want it to look'.. Russell Brand
'Knowledge is power.'.. Sir Francis Bacon
'A loving heart is the truest wisdom.'.. Charles Dickens
'Man tends to increase at a greater rate than his means of subsistence.'.. Charles Darwin
'Experience is the child of thought, and thought is the child of action.'.. Benjamin Disraeli
'Everything's got a moral, if only you can find it.'.. Lewis Carroll
'I am extraordinarily patient, provided I get my own way in the end'.. Margaret Thatcher
'All war represents a failure of diplomacy.'.. Tony Benn
'Pity those who nature abuses; never those who abuse nature.'.. Richard Sheridan
'Assassination is the extreme form of censorship.'.. George Bernard Shaw
'No man is an island, entire of itself'.. John Donne
'I read the newspapers avidly. It is my one form of continuous fiction.'.. Aneurin Bevan
'You can lead a horse to water, but a pencil must be led.'.. Stan Laurel
'Every man over forty is a scoundrel.'.. George Bernard Shaw
'Sometimes the most positive thing you can be in a boring society is absolutely negative'.. John Lydon (Johnny Rotten)
'We often repent of our first thoughts, and scarce ever of our second'.. Horace Walpole
'I'm not afraid of dying I just don't want to be there when it happens.'.. Spike Milligan
'A man's friendships are one of the best measures of his worth.'.. Charles Darwin
'The media. It sounds like a convention of spiritualists.'.. Sir Tom Stoppard