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Famous British Quotes
'Nothing is so contagious as enthusiasm.'.. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
'No benevolent man ever lost altogether the fruits of his benevolence.'.. Adam Smith
''Hearty Homely loving Hertford''.. Charles Lamb
'There is not in nature, a thing that makes man so deformed, so beastly, as doth intemperate anger.'.. Alan Bleasdale
'If a man's wit be wandering, let him study the mathematics.'.. Sir Francis Bacon
'There is no education like adversity.'.. Benjamin Disraeli
'How inappropriate to call this planet Earth when it is quite clearly Ocean.'.. Arthur C Clarke
'My goal is simple. It is a complete understanding of the universe, why it is as it is and why it exists at all.'.. Stephen Hawking
'A week is a long time in politics.'.. Harold Wilson
'English winters are like the 1st world war. You start thinking am I going to get to the end of this'.. John Cleese
'Man hands on misery to man. It deepens like a coastal shelf. Get out as early as you can, and don't have any kids yourself'.. Philip Larkin
'Ending a sentence with a preposition is something up with which I will not put.'.. Winston Churchill
'I've got a great ambition to die of exhaustion rather than boredom.'.. Thomas Carlyle
'In Italy the whole country is a theatre and the worst actors are on the stage'.. George Bernard Shaw
'In the long history of humankind (and animal kind, too) those who learned to collaborate and improvise most effectively have prevailed.'.. Charles Darwin
'Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing.'.. Oscar Wilde
'Nothing builds self-esteem and self-confidence like accomplishment'.. Thomas Carlyle
'To all, to each, a fair good-night, and pleasing dreams, and slumbers light.'.. Walter Scott
'Outside every fat man there was an even fatter man trying to close in.'.. Sir Kingsley Amis
'Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.'.. Edmund Burke
'I never saw a wild thing sorry for itself. A small bird will drop frozen dead from a bough without ever having felt sorry for itself.'.. D H Lawrence
'Every exit is an entry somewhere else.'.. Sir Tom Stoppard
'A man's as old as he's feeling. A woman as old as she looks.'.. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
'British People have a socialist mind and a conservative heart'.. Albert Finney
'Consequences are unpitying.'.. George Eliot
'Feelings are like chemicals, the more you analyze them the worse they smell.'.. Charles Kingsley
'Independence? That's middle class blasphemy. We are all dependent on one another, every soul of us on earth.'.. George Bernard Shaw
'It is the nature of all greatness not to be exact.'.. Edmund Burke
'Now that I know what I want, I don't have to hold on to it quite so much.'.. Lucien Freud
'Dictators free themselves, but they enslave the people.'.. Charlie Chaplin