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Famous British Quotes
'Beauty is a short-lived tyranny.'.. George Bernard Shaw
'He threatens many that hath injured one'.. Ben Jonson
'I hate people who think it's clever to take drugs... like custom officers'.. Jack Dee
'My only regret in life is that I did not drink more champagne'.. John Maynard Keynes
'A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men.'.. Roald Dahl
'The world is a stage, but the play is badly cast.'.. Oscar Wilde
'A common mistake people make when trying to design something is underestimating the ingenuity of fools'.. Douglas Adams
'What is reading, but silent conversation.'.. Charles Lamb
'Life’s never a postcard of life, is it? It never feels like how you’d want it to look'.. Russell Brand
'You will find in politics that you are much exposed to the attribution of false motive. Never complain and never explain'.. Stanley Baldwin
'Life appears to me too short to be spent in nursing animosity, or registering wrongs.'.. Charlotte Bronte
'A lot of football success is in the mind. You must believe you are the best and then make sure that you are.'.. Bill Shankly
'A real book is not one that we read, but one that reads us.'.. W H Auden
'Eating words has never given me indigestion.'.. Winston Churchill
'Wonders will never cease.'.. David Garrick
'We are a small country with a large sense of its own importance'.. David Walliams
'What is wonderful about great literature is that it transforms the man who reads it towards the condition of the man who wrote.'.. E M Forster
'Do what you haven't done is the key, I think.'.. Ridley Scott
'The news is always bad, even when it sounds good'.. Aldous Huxley
'Come forth into the light of things, let nature be your teacher.'.. William Wordsworth
'All heiresses are beautiful.'.. John Dryden
'Language ought to be the joint creation of poets and manual workers'.. George Orwell
'An ounce of mother is worth a pound of clergy.'.. Rudyard Kipling
'Every increased possession loads us with a new weariness.'.. John Ruskin
'We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another'.. Jonathan Swift
'Paradise Lost is a book that, once put down, is very hard to pick up again.'.. Samuel Johnson
'My dreams were all my own; I accounted for them to nobody; they were my refuge when annoyed - my dearest pleasure when free'.. Mary Shelley
'Remember the dignity of your womanhood. Do not appeal, do not beg, do not grovel. Take courage, join hands, stand beside us, fight with us.'.. Christabel Pankhurst
'England expects that every man will do his duty.'.. Horatio Nelson
'A man with God is always in the majority.'.. John Knox