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Famous British Quotes
'To forget oneself is to be happy.'.. Robert Louis Stevenson
'The more we study the more we discover our ignorance.'.. Percy Bysshe Shelley
'Time is but the shadow of the world upon the background of Eternity.'.. Jerome K Jerome
'Proud people breed sad sorrows for themselves.'.. Emily Bronte
'There is a wisdom of the head, and a wisdom of the heart.'.. Charles Dickens
'The silliest woman can manage a clever man; but it needs a very clever woman to manage a fool.'.. Rudyard Kipling
'Russia is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma.'.. Winston Churchill
'Summer has set in with its usual severity'.. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
'All the flower children were as alike as a congress of accountants and about as interesting.'.. Sir John Mortimer
'Those who don't know history are destined to repeat it.'.. Edmund Burke
'The average Englishman goes 6 months without crying depending on the Football results'.. Frank Skinner
'He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches.'.. George Bernard Shaw
'Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together.'.. George Eliot
'It is not how much one makes but to what purpose one spends.'.. John Ruskin
'It is curious that every creed promises a paradise on death which is unthinkable for anyone of taste'.. Evelyn Waugh
'Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.'.. Benjamin Disraeli
'Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.'.. George Bernard Shaw
'If you fell down yesterday, stand up today.'.. H G Wells
'We forge the chains we wear in life.'.. Charles Dickens
'What Youth deemed crystal, Age finds out was dew.'.. Robert Browning
'You want to be foretold the weather? it is bad enough when it comes without having the misery of knowing about it beforehand'.. Jerome K Jerome
'Diligence is the mother of good fortune.'.. Benjamin Disraeli
'We may be a small island, but we are not a small people.'.. Edward Heath
'When we argue for our limitations, we get to keep them.'.. Evelyn Waugh
'Faith is a passionate intuition.'.. William Wordsworth
'The politician who never made a mistake never made a decision.'.. John Major
'The golden rule is that there are no golden rules.'.. George Bernard Shaw
'It is only in the world of objects that we have time and space and selves.'.. T S Eliot
'In Italy the whole country is a theatre and the worst actors are on the stage'.. George Bernard Shaw
'Endurance is patience concentrated.'.. Thomas Carlyle