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Famous British Quotes
'He is the best physician who is the most ingenious inspirer of hope.'.. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
'The trouble with orgies is that you have to spend so much time holding your stomach in'.. Sir John Mortimer
'Responsibilities gravitate to the person who can shoulder them.'.. Sir Tom Stoppard
'No man was ever so completely skilled in the conduct of life, as not to receive new information from age and experience.'.. Jonathan Swift
'A man who does not think for himself does not think at all.'.. Oscar Wilde
'If God did not intend for us to eat animals, then why did he make them out of meat?'.. John Cleese
'What passions cannot music raise or quell?'.. John Dryden
'The first and simplest emotion which we discover in the human mind, is curiosity.'.. Edmund Burke
'I am prepared to go anywhere, provided it be forward.'.. David Livingstone
'It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent that survives. It is the one that is the most adaptable to change.'.. Charles Darwin
'A poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language.'.. W H Auden
'History is a cyclic poem written by time upon the memories of man'.. Percy Bysshe Shelley
'Take away love and our earth is a tomb.'.. Robert Browning
'Ending a sentence with a preposition is something up with which I will not put.'.. Winston Churchill
'It is always the best policy to speak the truth, unless, of course, you are an exceptionally good lia'.. Jerome K Jerome
'There are strings in the human heart that had better not be vibrated.'.. Charles Dickens
'There are three rules for writing a novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are'.. Somerset Maugham
'Success - keeping your mind awake and your desire asleep.'.. Walter Scott
'Life could be wonderful if people would leave you alone.'.. Charlie Chaplin
'Love is staying up all night with a sick child - or a healthy adult.'.. David Frost
'It is better to lose health like a spendthrift than to waste it like a miser.'.. Robert Louis Stevenson
'Quality is never an accident. It is always the result of intelligent effort.'.. John Ruskin
'It is a dangerous thing to have instant access to your emotions.'.. Dennis Potter
'The world is like a grand staircase, some are going up and some are going down.'.. Samuel Johnson
'One sometimes finds what one is not looking for.'.. Alexander Fleming
'I believe in getting in to hot water. It keeps you clean'.. GK Chesterton
'He was about as useful as a one-legged man at an arse kicking contest.'.. Rowan Atkinson
'I am in that temper that if I were under water I would scarcely kick to come to the top'.. John Keats
'Dangerous foreigners begin at Calais and dont stop until you get to Bombay where they play cricket and speak English'.. Clement Attlee
'A fashion is nothing but an induced epidemic.'.. George Bernard Shaw