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Famous British Quotes
'He that is taught only by himself has a fool for a master'.. Ben Jonson
'Everything I've ever told you, including this, is a lie'.. Peter Cook
'A man lives by believing something: not by debating and arguing about many things.'.. Thomas Carlyle
'Beware the fury of a patient man.'.. John Dryden
'I believe the first test of a truly great man is in his humility.'.. John Ruskin
'This is the first age that's ever paid much attention to the future, which is a little ironic since we may not have one'.. Arthur C Clarke
'This report, by its very length, defends itself against the risk of being read.'.. Winston Churchill
'There will always be an England even if its in Hollywood'.. Bob Hope
'I think in terms of the day's resolutions, not the years'.'.. Henry Moore
'Presteigne - Neither in England nor Wales, simply in Radnorshire'.. George Borrow
'Everything's got a moral, if only you can find it.'.. Lewis Carroll
'Nothing in life is so exhilarating as to be shot at without result.'.. Winston Churchill
'He who knows only his own side of the case knows little of that.'.. John Stuart Mill
'A good gulp of hot whiskey at bedtime - it's not very scientific but it helps'.. Alexander Fleming
'I don't believe that the public knows what it wants; this is the conclusion that I have drawn from my career.'.. Charlie Chaplin
'Ambition - it is the last infirmity of noble minds.'.. J M Barrie
'If we open a quarrel between past and present, we shall find that we have lost the future'.. Winston Churchill
'An original idea. That can't be too hard. The library must be full of them.'.. Stephen Fry
'The truth is rarely pure and never simple.'.. Oscar Wilde
'It is better to lose health like a spendthrift than to waste it like a miser.'.. Robert Louis Stevenson
'Taste is the only morality. Tell me what you like and I'll tell you what you are'.. John Ruskin
'A widespread taste for pornography means that nature is alerting us to some threat of extinction'.. James G Ballard
'I've got a great ambition to die of exhaustion rather than boredom.'.. Thomas Carlyle
'There is nothing so fatal to character as half finished tasks.'.. David Lloyd George
'When you read and understand a poem, comprehending its rich and formal meanings, then you master chaos a little.'.. Stephen Spender
'In my opinion, most of the great men of the past were only there for the beer - the wealth, prestige and grandeur that went with the power.'.. A J P Taylor
'Life contains but two tragedies. One is not to get your heart's desire; the other is to get it.'.. George Bernard Shaw
'Be content to remember that those who can make omelettes properly can do nothing else'.. Hilaire Belloc
'A fanatic is a man who consciously over compensates a secret doubt.'.. Aldous Huxley
'Go as far as you can see; when you get there you'll be able to see farther.'.. Thomas Carlyle