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Famous British Quotes
'God made them as stubble to our swords.'.. Oliver Cromwell
'What happens in the heart simply happens.'.. Ted Hughes
'The most happy marriage I can picture or imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman'.. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
'Heroes, whatever high ideas we may have of them, are mortal and not divine. We are all as God made us and many of us much worse.'.. John Osborne
'You can give without loving, but you can never love without giving.'.. Robert Louis Stevenson
'My character and good name are in my own keeping. Life with disgrace is dreadful. A glorious death is to be envied'.. Horatio Nelson
'Expectation is the root of all heartache.'.. William Shakespeare
'As covetousness is the root of all evil, so poverty is the worst of all snares.'.. Daniel Defoe
'Heresy is another word for freedom of thought.'.. Graham Greene
'For all right judgment of any man or things it is useful, nay, essential, to see his good qualities before pronouncing on his bad.'.. Thomas Carlyle
'Football is not a matter of Life and Death - its far more important than that'.. Bill Shankly
'He travels best that knows when to return.'.. Thomas More
'Nothing is too wonderful to be true if it be consistent with the laws of nature'.. Michael Faraday
'Lack of money is the root of all evil.'.. George Bernard Shaw
'People do not believe lies because they have to, but because they want to'.. Malcolm Muggeridge
'One half of the world cannot understand the other halfs pleasures'.. Jane Austen
'The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost.'.. GK Chesterton
'A woman's guess is much more accurate than a man's certainty.'.. Rudyard Kipling
'I've done the most awful rubbish in order to have somewhere to go in the morning'.. Richard Burton
'We grow small trying to be great.'.. David Hockney
'The most important of my discoveries have been suggested to me by my failures'.. Humphry Davy
'Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.'.. George Bernard Shaw
'If I cannot understand my friend's silence, I will never get to understand his words.'.. Enoch Powell
'No man ever became great or good except through many and great mistakes.'.. W E Gladstone
'The greatest problem about old age is the fear that it may go on too long.'.. A J P Taylor
'Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others.'.. Robert Louis Stevenson
'We forge the chains we wear in life.'.. Charles Dickens
'Little things affect little minds.'.. Benjamin Disraeli
'Better to reign in hell than serve in heaven'.. John Milton
'Put three Englishmen on a desert island and within an hour they will have invented a class system'.. Alan Ayckbourn