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Famous British Quotes
'Keep your faith in God, but keep your powder dry.'.. Oliver Cromwell
'By gnawing through a dike, even a rat may drown a nation.'.. Edmund Burke
'When you choose your friends, don't be short-changed by choosing personality over character.'.. Somerset Maugham
'I am one of those who would rather sink with faith than swim without it.'.. Stanley Baldwin
'Be not a slave of words.'.. Thomas Carlyle
'Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.'.. Bertrand Russell
'A day wasted on others is not wasted on one's self.'.. Charles Dickens
'I try to avoid looking forward or backward, and try to keep looking upward.'.. Charlotte Bronte
'One cannot really be a Catholic and grown up.'.. George Orwell
'Courage is rightly esteemed the first of human qualities... because it is the quality which guarantees all others.'.. Winston Churchill
'England is not all the world.'.. Mary, Queen of Scots
'To refuse awards is another way of accepting them with more noise than is normal'.. Peter Ustinov
'I am prepared to go anywhere, provided it be forward.'.. David Livingstone
'I went into the business for the money, and the art grew out of it. If people are disillusioned by that remark, I can't help it. It's the truth.'.. Charlie Chaplin
'I wanted above all else not to be like my mum.'.. Julie Walters
'Women are for bastmen, beer is for bowlers. God help the all-rounders!'.. Fred Trueman
'When a true genius appears, you can know him by this sign: that all the dunces are in a confederacy against him.'.. Jonathan Swift
'I have a great mind to believe in Christianity for the mere pleasure of fancying I may be damned'.. Lord Byron
'War against a foreign country only happens when the moneyed classes think they are going to profit from it'.. George Orwell
'An ounce of mother is worth a pound of clergy.'.. Rudyard Kipling
'I have changed. I no longer keep coal in the bath. I keep it in the bidet'.. John Prescott
'What makes life dreary is the want of a motive.'.. George Eliot
'The difference between Socrates and Jesus? The great conscious and the immeasurably great unconscious'.. Thomas Carlyle
'Love is the last relay and ultimate outposts of eternity.'.. Dante G Rossetti
'People always make war when they say they love peace.'.. D H Lawrence
'If you aren't in over your head, how do you know how tall you are?'.. T S Eliot
'In politics, what begins in fear usually ends in failure.'.. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
'The true secret of happiness lies in taking a genuine interest in all the details of daily life.'.. William Morris
'There's no such thing as failure - just waiting for success.'.. John Osborne
'When I make a joke I always laugh quickly so there is no doubt about it'.. Somerset Maugham