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Famous British Quotes
'The only fence against the world is a thorough knowledge of it.'.. John Locke
'England expects that every man will do his duty.'.. Horatio Nelson
'Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead'.. Oscar Wilde
'In politics, what begins in fear usually ends in failure.'.. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
'I've always said there's a place for the press but they haven't dug it yet.'.. Tommy Docherty
'The person that loses their conscience has nothing left worth keeping.'.. Izaak Walton
'Love is blind.'.. Geoffrey Chaucer
'One leak will sink a ship: and one sin will destroy a sinner.'.. John Bunyan
'The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good'.. Samuel Johnson
'Familiar acts are beautiful through love.'.. Percy Bysshe Shelley
'Euphemisms are unpleasant truths wearing diplomatic cologne'.. Quentin Crisp
'It is necessary to relax your muscles when you can. Relaxing your brain is fatal.'.. Stirling Moss
'I don't work at being ordinary.'.. Paul McCartney
'A fashion is nothing but an induced epidemic.'.. George Bernard Shaw
'Integrity is so perishable in the summer months of success.'.. Vanessa Redgrave
'Vices are sometimes only virtues carried to excess!'.. Charles Dickens
'Faith is a passionate intuition.'.. William Wordsworth
'Mankind is not likely to salvage civilization unless he can evolve a system of good and evil which is independent of heaven and hell'.. George Orwell
'Do what you will, this world's a fiction and is made up of contradiction'.. William Blake
'Save your money. You're going to need twice as much money in your old age as you think'.. Michael Caine
'The man who can dominate a London dinner-table can dominate the world'.. Oscar Wilde
'Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will make me go in a corner and cry by myself for hours.'.. Eric Idle
'Nothing ever becomes real till it is experienced.'.. John Keats
'I always arrive late at the office, but I make up for it by leaving early.'.. Charles Lamb
'There are three rules for writing a novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are'.. Somerset Maugham
'The way to tell if a man is sexually excited is to check if he is breathing'.. Jo Brand
'The kind of people who always go on about whether a thing is in good taste invariably have very bad taste'.. Joe Orton
'Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.'.. George Bernard Shaw
'Fortunate indeed the child who first sees the light of day in that romantic town'.. Andrew Carnegie
'Ambition makes more trusty slaves than need.'.. Ben Jonson