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Famous British Quotes
'God never made His work for man to mend.'.. John Dryden
'The real character of a man is found out by his amusements.'.. Joshua Reynolds
'It is a mistake to think you can solve any major problems just with potatoes'.. Douglas Adams
'No man can lose what he never had.'.. Izaak Walton
'Punctuality is the virtue of the bored.'.. Evelyn Waugh
'Some of my best leading men have been dogs and horses.'.. Elizabeth Taylor
'The remedy is worse than the disease.'.. Sir Francis Bacon
'What I am looking for is a blessing not in disguise.'.. Jerome K Jerome
'If what you have done is unjust, you have not succeeded.'.. Thomas Carlyle
'Better three hours too soon than a minute too late.'.. William Shakespeare
'Marriage is like paying an endless visit in your worst clothes.'.. J B Priestley
'Every dog must have his day.'.. Jonathan Swift
'I used to desire many, many things, but now I have just one desire, and that's to get rid of all my other desires'.. John Cleese
'It is not so much that the world has got so much worse but that news coverage has got so much better'.. GK Chesterton
'The quickest way of ending a war is to lose it.'.. George Orwell
'Business today consists in persuading crowds.'.. T S Eliot
'An idea, like a ghost, must be spoken to a little before it will explain itself.'.. Charles Dickens
'The essence of being human is that one does not seek perfection'.. George Orwell
'No one rises so high as he who knows not whither he is going.'.. Oliver Cromwell
'You don't have to be the Dalai Lama to tell people that life's about change'.. John Cleese
'A lover without indiscretion is no lover at all.'.. Thomas Hardy
'There are some ideas so wrong that only a very intelligent person could believe in them'.. George Orwell
'No man is useless while he has a friend.'.. Robert Louis Stevenson
'A fashion is nothing but an induced epidemic.'.. George Bernard Shaw
'Though lovers be lost love shall not.'.. Dylan Thomas
'It was a very simple team talk. All I used to say was: 'Whenever possible, give the ball to George'.. Matt Busby
'When one burns one's bridges, what a very nice fire it makes.'.. Dylan Thomas
'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
'Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers.'.. Alfred Lord Tennyson
'A difference of taste in jokes is a great strain on the affections.'.. George Eliot