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Famous British Quotes
'The dread of evil is a much more forcible principle of human actions than the prospect of good.'.. John Locke
'I'm not afraid of dying I just don't want to be there when it happens.'.. Spike Milligan
'A day wasted on others is not wasted on one's self.'.. Charles Dickens
'A ruffled mind makes a restless pillow.'.. Charlotte Bronte
'Thank goodness I was never sent to school; it would have rubbed off some of the originality.'.. Beatrix Potter
'Memorial services are the cocktail parties of the geriatric set.'.. Harold Macmillan
'And yet to every bad there is a worse.'.. Thomas Hardy
'Women are made to be loved, not understood.'.. Oscar Wilde
'Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.'.. Winston Churchill
'The greatest pleasure I know is to do a good action by stealth and have it found out by accident.'.. Charles Lamb
'That great Cathedral space which was childhood.'.. Virginia Woolf
'Now that I know what I want, I don't have to hold on to it quite so much.'.. Lucien Freud
'All that a husband or wife really wants is to be pitied a little, praised a little, and appreciated a little'.. Oliver Goldsmith
'Conviction is worthless unless it is converted into conduct.'.. Thomas Carlyle
'A woman, especially, if she have the misfortune of knowing anything, should conceal it as well as she can'.. Jane Austen
'Never forget that only dead fish swim with the stream.'.. Malcolm Muggeridge
'An idea, like a ghost, must be spoken to a little before it will explain itself.'.. Charles Dickens
'Familiar acts are beautiful through love.'.. Percy Bysshe Shelley
'The trouble with children is that they are non-returnable'.. Quentin Crisp
'All movements go too far.'.. Bertrand Russell
'True happiness consists not in the multitude of friends, but in the worth and choice.'.. Ben Jonson
'Adventure is not outside man; it is within.'.. George Eliot
'One should always play fairly when one has the winning cards.'.. Oscar Wilde
'Who, being loved, is poor?'.. Oscar Wilde
'We may be a small island, but we are not a small people.'.. Edward Heath
'The main object of religion is not to get a man into heaven, but to get heaven into him'.. Thomas Hardy
'As with the Christian religion, the worst advertisement for Socialism is its adherents'.. George Orwell
'Patriots always talk of dying for their country but never of killing for their country'.. Bertrand Russell
'Saints should always be judged guilty until they are proved innocent'.. George Orwell
'If I cannot understand my friend's silence, I will never get to understand his words.'.. Enoch Powell