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Famous British Quotes
'Marriage: A friendship recognized by the police.'.. Robert Louis Stevenson
'Be not afraid of greatness: some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them'.. William Shakespeare
'It is justice, not charity, that is wanting in the world.'.. Mary Shelley
'Both read the Bible day and night, but thou read black where I read white'.. William Blake
'A man, as a general rule, owes very little to what he is born with - a man is what he makes of himself'.. Alexander Graham Bell
'Failures are finger posts on the road to achievement.'.. C S Lewis
'Charity begins at home, and justice begins next door.'.. Charles Dickens
'Science is but an image of the truth.'.. Sir Francis Bacon
'Consistency is the last refuge of the unimaginative.'.. Oscar Wilde
'If Galileo had said in verse that the world moved, the inquisition might have let him alone'.. Thomas Hardy
'If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear'.. George Orwell
'Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings.'.. Samuel Johnson
'I love not man the less, but Nature more.'.. Lord Byron
'So many objections may be made to everything, that nothing can overcome them but the necessity of doing something'.. Samuel Johnson
'I attribute my success to this - I never gave or took any excuse.'.. Florence Nightingale
'Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel.'.. Samuel Johnson
'Understand that sexuality is as wide as the sea. Understand that your morality is not law'.. Derek Jarman
'Coincidences are spiritual puns.'.. GK Chesterton
'Men judge us by the success of our efforts. God looks at the efforts themselves.'.. Charlotte Bronte
'Pleasure and freedom from pain, are the only things desirable as ends.'.. John Stuart Mill
'A day wasted on others is not wasted on one's self.'.. Charles Dickens
'A man loses his Dog so he puts an ad in the local paper - Here Boy!'.. Spike Milligan
'I've always said there's a place for the press but they haven't dug it yet.'.. Tommy Docherty
'Actors search for rejection. If they don't get it they reject themselves.'.. Charlie Chaplin
'Life is ours to be spent, not to be saved.'.. D H Lawrence
'I always knew that if all else failed I could become an actor. And all else failed'.. David Niven
'It's discouraging to think how many people are shocked by honesty and how few by deceit.'.. Noel Coward
'Money can't buy love, but it improves your bargaining position.'.. Christopher Marlowe
'That we must all die, we always knew; I wish I had remembered it sooner.'.. Samuel Johnson
'I dont hold with abroad and think foreigners speak English when our backs are turned'.. Quentin Crisp