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Famous British Quotes
'When you choose your friends, don't be short-changed by choosing personality over character.'.. Somerset Maugham
'The problem with committing political suicide is that you may live to regret it'.. Winston Churchill
'Adventure is not outside man; it is within.'.. George Eliot
'The overall impression from the British is that they love France but would prefer it if the French didn't live there'.. Sir John Mortimer
'I don't work at being ordinary.'.. Paul McCartney
'One man's wage increase is another man's price increase.'.. Harold Wilson
'Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons'.. Bertrand Russell
'I got nasty habits; I take tea at three.'.. Mick Jagger
'Life is easy to chronicle, but bewildering to practice.'.. E M Forster
'I am prepared to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter.'.. Winston Churchill
'Wouldn't it be better to have a watertight law designed to catch the guilty, rather than a press release law designed to catch the headlines?'.. William Hague
'When I am dead, I hope it may be said: His sins were scarlet, but his books were read'.. Hilaire Belloc
'Having one child makes you a parent; having two you are a referee.'.. David Frost
'Superhuman effort isn't worth a damn unless it achieves results.'.. Ernest Shackleton
'A painter must think of everything he sees as being there entirely for his own use and pleasure.'.. Lucien Freud
'A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life.'.. Charles Darwin
'Happiness can exist only in acceptance.'.. George Orwell
'Charm, in most men and nearly all women, is a decoration.'.. E M Forster
'Nurture your minds with great thoughts. To believe in the heroic makes heroes'.. Benjamin Disraeli
'I always admired virtue - but I could never imitate it'.. Charles II
'That we must all die, we always knew; I wish I had remembered it sooner.'.. Samuel Johnson
'Man is an animal that makes bargains: no other animal does this - no dog exchanges bones with another.'.. Adam Smith
'It is better to lose health like a spendthrift than to waste it like a miser.'.. Robert Louis Stevenson
'Parents wonder why the streams are bitter, when they themselves have poisoned the fountain.'.. John Locke
'When a stupid man is doing something he is ashamed of, he always declares that it is his duty.'.. George Bernard Shaw
'I try to avoid looking forward or backward, and try to keep looking upward.'.. Charlotte Bronte
'The more you understand something, I think the more you can enjoy it.'.. Ricky Gervais
'The difference between Socrates and Jesus? The great conscious and the immeasurably great unconscious'.. Thomas Carlyle
'There is a condition worse than blindness, and that is, seeing something that isn't there.'.. Thomas Hardy
'I cant type but if I could I would rather play the Harpsichord'.. Peter Ustinov