Most famous quotes from British great figures in history from William Shakespeare to John Locke

The video reveals famous quotes from some very important people in life such as William Shakespeare, Winston Churchill, Charles Dickens, John Locke, etc.
The following are some famous quotes from them:

• "We shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender." (Winston Churchill - Second World War speech, 1940)
• "To be or not to be, that is the question." (William Shakespeare - Hamlet, Act 3, Scene 1)
• "It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife." (Jane Austen - Pride and Prejudice, opening line)
• "It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair, we had everything before us, we had nothing before us, we were all going direct to Heaven, we were all going direct the other way – in short, the period was so far like the present period, that some of its noisiest authorities insisted on its being received, for good or for evil, in the superlative degree of comparison only." (Charles Dickens - A Tale of Two Cities, opening paragraph)
• "If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of giants." (Isaac Newton - Letter to Robert Hooke, 1676)
• "The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing." (Alan Turing - Lecture on Computing Machinery and Intelligence, 1950)
• "I Frankenstein." (Mary Shelley - Frankenstein, subtitle)
• "It matters not what someone is born, but what they grow to be." (J.K. Rowling - Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire)
• "You can't go back and change the beginning, but you can start where you are and change the ending." (C.S. Lewis - Alice in Wonderland)
• "The Web as we know it could be at risk. This open platform needs our collective protection." (Tim Berners-Lee - Speech at the Web Summit, 2019)
• "Intelligence is the ability to adapt to change." (Stephen Hawking - A Brief History of Time)
• "So that the engine might analyze itself." (Ada Lovelace - Notes on Babbage's Difference Engine, 1842)
• "So long as slavery exists, there is no justice in this world." (William Wilberforce - Speech to the House of Commons, 1792)
• "I attribute my success to hard work. It is the only way to achieve anything great." (Florence Nightingale - Letter to a friend, 1857)
• "Votes for women!" (Emmeline Pankhurst - Suffragette slogan)
• "We can only see a short distance ahead, but we can see plenty there." (Alan Turing - The Computing Machinery and Intelligence, 1950)
• "It is time to explore new worlds and new civilizations." (Virginia Woolf - To the Lighthouse)
• "The future of life on Earth depends on human decision-making." (David Attenborough - Planet Earth II documentary, 2016)
• "To see a World in a Grain of Sand And a Heaven in a Wild Flower Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand And Eternity in an hour." (William Blake - Auguries of Innocence)
• "Necessity is the mother of invention." (Benjamin Franklin - Proverbial Wisdom)
• "It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change." (Charles Darwin - The Origin of Species)
• "It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker that we expect our dinner, but from their regard to their own interest." (Adam Smith - The Wealth of Nations)
• "No man is an island." (John Locke - Two Treatises of Government)

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