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Famous British Quotes
'The purpose of getting power is to be able to give it away'.. Aneurin Bevan
'Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all'.. Alfred Lord Tennyson
'Think before you speak is criticism's motto; speak before you think, creation's.'.. E M Forster
'Men may be popular without being ambitious, but there is hardly an ambitious man who does not try to be popular.'.. Lord North
'When a stupid man is doing something he is ashamed of, he always declares that it is his duty.'.. George Bernard Shaw
'And yet to every bad there is a worse.'.. Thomas Hardy
'I never had lunch in Brighton without wanting to take a woman to bed in the afternoon'.. John Osborne
'If I cannot understand my friend's silence, I will never get to understand his words.'.. Enoch Powell
'Believe there is a great power silently working all things for good, behave yourself and never mind the rest.'.. Beatrix Potter
'Selfishness is the greatest curse of the human race.'.. W E Gladstone
'There is a wisdom of the head, and a wisdom of the heart.'.. Charles Dickens
'That's all drugs and alcohol do, they cut off your emotions in the end.'.. Ringo Starr
'Nothing builds self-esteem and self-confidence like accomplishment'.. Thomas Carlyle
'A woman that does a mans work is just a lazy cow'.. Jo Brand
'It is in men as in soils where sometimes there is a vein of gold which the owner knows not'.. Jonathan Swift
'Silence is as deep as eternity, speech a shallow as time.'.. Thomas Carlyle
'Of all acts of man repentance is the most divine. The greatest of all faults is to be conscious of none'.. 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
'Always be a little kinder than necessary.'.. J M Barrie
'A solitary laugh is often a laugh of superiority.'.. Graham Greene
'I always admired virtue - but I could never imitate it'.. Charles II
'No one rises so high as he who knows not whither he is going.'.. Oliver Cromwell
'He who stops being better stops being good.'.. Oliver Cromwell
'All we need to make us really happy is something to be enthusiastic about.'.. Charles Kingsley
'To see a world in a grain of sand and heaven in a wild flower Hold infinity in the palms of your hand and eternity in an hour'.. William Blake
'A man never tells you anything until you contradict him.'.. George Bernard Shaw
'What I am looking for is a blessing not in disguise.'.. Jerome K Jerome
'I'm spending a year dead for tax reasons.'.. Douglas Adams
'Anyone can tell the truth, but only very few of us can make epigrams.'.. Somerset Maugham
'If you're going to make rubbish, be the best rubbish in it.'.. Richard Burton