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Famous British Quotes
'I used to go missing a lot...Miss Canada, Miss United Kingdom, Miss World.'.. George Best
'Success - keeping your mind awake and your desire asleep.'.. Walter Scott
'Nothing puzzles me more than the time and space; and yet nothing troubles me less.'.. Charles Lamb
'England has always been disinclined to accept human nature.'.. E M Forster
'I have frequently gained my first real insight into the character of parents by studying their children'.. Arthur Conan Doyle
'There is only one religion, though there are a hundred versions of it.'.. George Bernard Shaw
'Look back, and smile on perils past.'.. Walter Scott
'For all right judgment of any man or things it is useful, nay, essential, to see his good qualities before pronouncing on his bad.'.. Thomas Carlyle
'Nothing can cure the soul but the senses, just as nothing can cure the senses but the soul.'.. Oscar Wilde
'They talk of a man betraying his country, his friends, his sweetheart. There must be a moral bond first. All a man can betray is his conscience.'.. Joseph Conrad
'I love criticism just so long as it's unqualified praise.'.. Noel Coward
'For success, attitude is equally as important as ability.'.. Walter Scott
'Nothing is more obstinate than a fashionable consensus.'.. Margaret Thatcher
'The age of chivalry is past. Bores have succeeded to dragons.'.. Charles Dickens
'Women are naturally secretive, and they like to do their own secreting.'.. Arthur Conan Doyle
'To do a great right do a little wrong.'.. William Shakespeare
'Of all acts of man repentance is the most divine. The greatest of all faults is to be conscious of none'.. Thomas Carlyle
'Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested.'.. Sir Francis Bacon
'Do not let spacious plans for a new world divert your energies from saving what is left of the old'.. Winston Churchill
'No bird soars too high if he soars with his own wings.'.. William Blake
'The best part of a holiday is not so much to be resting yourself as to see all the other fellows busy working'.. Kenneth Grahame
'All men who have turned out worth anything have had the chief hand in their own education.'.. Walter Scott
'Words easy to be understood do often hit the mark; when high and learned ones do only pierce the air'.. John Bunyan
'Facts are to the mind what food is to the body.'.. Edmund Burke
'War is evil, but it is often the lesser evil.'.. George Orwell
'I think the British have the distinction above all other nations of being able to put new wine into old bottles without bursting them'.. Clement Attlee
'All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.'.. Winston Churchill
'Autumn wins you best by this its mute appeal to sympathy for its decay.'.. Robert Browning
'I think childhood is to everyone a lost land.'.. Dennis Potter
'I am half British and half American. My passport has an eagle with a tea bag in its mouth'.. Bob Hope