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Famous British Quotes
'Science is but an image of the truth.'.. Sir Francis Bacon
'How very little can be done under the spirit of fear.'.. Florence Nightingale
'Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man'.. Sir Francis Bacon
'Sure I am of this, that you have only to endure to conquer.'.. Winston Churchill
'We wander for distraction, but we travel for fulfillment.'.. Hilaire Belloc
'I have often thought what a melancholy world this would be without children, and what an inhuman world without the aged'.. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
'Poets don't have an 'audience'. They're talking to a single person all the time'.. Robert Graves
'All movements go too far.'.. Bertrand Russell
'A fashion is nothing but an induced epidemic.'.. George Bernard Shaw
'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
'I'm every bourgeois nightmare - a Cockney with intelligence and a million dollars'.. Michael Caine
'Above our life we love a steadfast friend.'.. Christopher Marlowe
'Paradise Lost is a book that, once put down, is very hard to pick up again.'.. Samuel Johnson
'My definition of an intellectual is someone who can listen to the William Tell Overture without thinking of the Lone Ranger.'.. Billy Connolly
'It was easier to conquer it than to know what to do with it.'.. Horace Walpole
'It does not do to leave a live dragon out of your calculations, if you live near him'.. J R R Tolkien
'Fame often makes a writer vain, but seldom makes him proud.'.. W H Auden
'Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.'.. Edmund Burke
'All conservatism is based upon the idea that if you leave things alone you leave them as they are. But you do not. If you leave a thing alone you leave it to a torrent of change'.. GK Chesterton
'The only exercise I take is walking behind the coffins of friends who have taken too much exercise'.. Peter O’Toole
'I like to drink to suit my location.'.. Tom Jones
'It is not an arrogant government that chooses priorities, it's an irresponsible government that fails to choose'.. Tony Blair
'My feeling is that if I'm going to write my life story, I ought to have my life first.'.. Dawn French
'I love everything that's old, - old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wine'.. Oliver Goldsmith
'A woman can be anything the man who loves her would have her be.'.. J M Barrie
'As usual, there is a great woman behind every idiot.'.. John Lennon
'Humour is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.'.. Virginia Woolf
'Life has a practice of living you, if you don't live it.'.. Philip Larkin
'A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty'.. Winston Churchill
'Modesty seldom resides in a breast that is not enriched with nobler virtues.'.. Oliver Goldsmith