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Famous British Quotes
'It's not the having, it's the getting.'.. Elizabeth Taylor
'One cannot really be a Catholic and grown up.'.. George Orwell
'I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite'.. GK Chesterton
'The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you can see.'.. Winston Churchill
'The whole annual produce of the land and labour of every country...naturally divides itself into three parts; the rent of the land, the wages of labour, and the profits of stock'.. Adam Smith
'I don't pretend to understand the Universe - it's a great deal bigger than I am.'.. Thomas Carlyle
'Society has always seemed to demand a little more from human beings than it will get in practice'.. George Orwell
'Life is wasted on the living'.. Douglas Adams
'Fathers should be neither seen nor heard. That is the only proper basis for family life'.. Oscar Wilde
'Ambition is not what man does... but what man would do.'.. Robert Browning
'Parting is such sweet sorrow.'.. William Shakespeare
'Thought is the parent of the deed.'.. Thomas Carlyle
'I sometimes think that being widowed is God's way of telling you to come off the Pill.'.. Victoria Wood
'You know, I go to the theatre to be entertained. I don’t want to see plays about rape, sodomy and drug addiction...I can get all that at home'.. Peter Cook
'Think globally, act locally.'.. Paul McCartney
'The way to tell if a man is sexually excited is to check if he is breathing'.. Jo Brand
'Who, being loved, is poor?'.. Oscar Wilde
'The most important of my discoveries have been suggested to me by my failures'.. Humphry Davy
'No one can look back on his schooldays and say with truth that they were altogether unhappy'.. George Orwell
'One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making new discoveries'.. A A Milne
'A man's as old as he's feeling. A woman as old as she looks.'.. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
'Ideas shape the course of history.'.. John Maynard Keynes
'No amount of ability is of the slightest avail without honor.'.. Thomas Carlyle
'A woman, the more curious she is about her face, is commonly the more careless about her house.'.. Ben Jonson
'Make yourself an honest man, and then you may be sure there is one less rascal in the world'.. Thomas Carlyle
'A man, as a general rule, owes very little to what he is born with - a man is what he makes of himself'.. Alexander Graham Bell
'I am not against hasty marriages where a mutual flame is fanned by an adequate income'.. Wilkie Collins
'We have forty million reasons for failure, but not a single excuse.'.. Rudyard Kipling
'I went window shopping today! I bought four windows.'.. Tommy Cooper
'The printing press is the greatest weapon in the armoury of the modern commander'.. T E Lawrence