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Famous British Quotes
'I should like to say that good batsman are born, not made; but my long experience comes up before me, and tells me that it is not so.'.. W G Grace
'Credulity is the man's weakness, but the child's strength.'.. Charles Lamb
'Be like a duck. Calm on the surface, but always paddling like the dickens underneath.'.. Michael Caine
'The marvelous thing about a joke with a double meaning is that it can only mean one thing'.. Ronnie Barker
'Man is nature's sole mistake.'.. W S Gilbert
'Familiar acts are beautiful through love.'.. Percy Bysshe Shelley
'The trouble with British Rail passengers is that they think the railways are being run for their benefit'.. Jeremy Clarkson
'Our greatest glory consists not in never failing, but in rising every time we fall'.. Oliver Goldsmith
'In human relationships, kindness and lies are worth a thousand truths'.. Graham Greene
'Everywhere in life, the true question is not what we gain, but what we do.'.. Thomas Carlyle
'Lack of money is the root of all evil.'.. George Bernard Shaw
'We are just an advanced breed of monkeys on a minor planet of a very average star. But we can understand the Universe. That makes us something very special.'.. Stephen Hawking
'Somebody said to me, 'But the Beatles were anti-materialistic.' That's a huge myth. John and I literally used to sit down and say, 'Now, let's write a swimming pool.''.. Paul McCartney
'Early in life I had noticed that no event is ever correctly reported in a newspaper'.. George Orwell
'When it comes to life the critical thing is whether you take things for granted or take them with gratitude'.. GK Chesterton
'No ghost was ever seen by two pairs of eyes.'.. Thomas Carlyle
'Age is a very high price to pay for maturity.'.. Sir Tom Stoppard
'The surest way to fail is not to determine to succeed.'.. Richard Sheridan
'Biography lends to death a new terror'.. Oscar Wilde
'Sex is a momentary itch, love never lets you go.'.. Sir Kingsley Amis
'Nothing is pleasant that is not spiced with variety.'.. Sir Francis Bacon
'The quickest way of ending a war is to lose it.'.. George Orwell
'Now this is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning'.. Winston Churchill
'I think fidelity is a good idea - now that I cant walk'.. Sir John Mortimer
'Egotism is the source and summary of all faults and miseries.'.. Thomas Carlyle
''Hearty Homely loving Hertford''.. Charles Lamb
'Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs.'.. William Shakespeare
'Adversity is the first path to truth.'.. Lord Byron
'Originality is a thing we constantly clamour for, and constantly quarrel with.'.. Thomas Carlyle
'I have nothing to declare except my genuis.'.. Oscar Wilde