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Famous British Quotes
'I dont believe in God but I am very interested in Her'.. Arthur C Clarke
'Life contains but two tragedies. One is not to get your heart's desire; the other is to get it.'.. George Bernard Shaw
'The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age, which mean never losing your enthusiasm.'.. Aldous Huxley
'Endurance is patience concentrated.'.. Thomas Carlyle
'A bachelor's life is a fine breakfast, a flat lunch, and a miserable dinner.'.. Sir Francis Bacon
'To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only meaning of life.'.. Robert Louis Stevenson
'There are books of which the backs and covers are by far the best parts.'.. Charles Dickens
'I had a dream that I was awake and I woke up to find myself asleep.'.. Stan Laurel
'Comedy, we may say, is society protecting itself - with a smile.'.. J B Priestley
'To sentence a man of true genius, to the drudgery of a school is to put a racehorse on a treadmill'.. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
'The sound of laughter is the most civilised music in the world'.. Peter Ustinov
'I keep seeing myself in my daughter, and I see my mother in me and in her. Bloody hell.'.. Julie Walters
'Autumn wins you best by this its mute appeal to sympathy for its decay.'.. Robert Browning
'Commerce changes the fate and genius of nations.'.. Thomas Gray
'Boredom is the legitimate kingdom of the philanthropic.'.. Virginia Woolf
'Fortitude is the marshal of thought, the armor of the will, and the fort of reason.'.. Sir Francis Bacon
'I feel monotony and death to be almost the same.'.. Charlotte Bronte
'May you live every day of your life.'.. Jonathan Swift
'Credulity is the man's weakness, but the child's strength.'.. Charles Lamb
'Proud people breed sad sorrows for themselves.'.. Emily Bronte
'Our greatest glory consists not in never failing, but in rising every time we fall'.. Oliver Goldsmith
'Maybe this world is another planets hell'.. Aldous Huxley
'All money is a matter of belief.'.. Adam Smith
'Chester pleases my fancy more than any other place I ever saw'.. James Boswell
'Death, so called, is a thing which makes men weep, And yet a third of life is passed in sleep'.. Lord Byron
'Genius at first is little more than a great capacity for receiving discipline'.. George Eliot
'Diligence is the mother of good fortune.'.. Benjamin Disraeli
'Consequences are unpitying.'.. George Eliot
'Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.'.. George Bernard Shaw
'Everywhere in life, the true question is not what we gain, but what we do.'.. Thomas Carlyle