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Famous British Quotes
'My unhealthy affection for my second daughter has waned. Now I despise all my seven children equally.'.. Evelyn Waugh
'War would end if the dead could return.'.. Stanley Baldwin
'Coincidences are spiritual puns.'.. GK Chesterton
'A resolution to avoid an evil is seldom framed till the evil is so far advanced as to make avoidance impossible'.. Thomas Hardy
'Parting is such sweet sorrow.'.. William Shakespeare
'A woman's guess is much more accurate than a man's certainty.'.. Rudyard Kipling
'Sometimes the first duty of intelligent men is the restatement of the obvious'.. George Orwell
'Both read the Bible day and night, but thou read black where I read white'.. William Blake
'An aim in life is the only fortune worth finding.'.. Robert Louis Stevenson
'The quickest way of ending a war is to lose it.'.. George Orwell
'Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal.'.. T S Eliot
'There's no use doing a kindness if you do it a day too late.'.. Charles Kingsley
'Find enough clever things to say, and you're a Prime Minister; write them down and you're a Shakespeare'.. George Bernard Shaw
'The greatest good you can do for another is not just to share your riches but to reveal to him his own.'.. Benjamin Disraeli
'Our own heart, and not other men's opinions form our true honor.'.. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
'Outside every fat man there was an even fatter man trying to close in.'.. Sir Kingsley Amis
'It's not the voting that's democracy; it's the counting.'.. Sir Tom Stoppard
'Being pregnant is an occupational hazard of being a wife.'.. Queen Victoria
'We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another'.. Jonathan Swift
'Britain is the grit in the European oyster'.. John Major
'Critics! Those cut-throat bandits in the paths of fame.'.. Robert Burns
'I should like to say that good batsman are born, not made; but my long experience comes up before me, and tells me that it is not so.'.. W G Grace
'The one great principle of English Law is to make business for itself'.. Charles Dickens
'A man, as a general rule, owes very little to what he is born with - a man is what he makes of himself'.. Alexander Graham Bell
'Pessimist: One who, when he has the choice of two evils, chooses both'.. Oscar Wilde
'Life is nothing but a competition to be the criminal rather than the victim.'.. Bertrand Russell
'Life has a practice of living you, if you don't live it.'.. Philip Larkin
'A horse is dangerous at both ends and uncomfortable in the middle.'.. Ian Fleming
'History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.'.. Winston Churchill
'Cities, like cats, will reveal themselves at night.'.. Rupert Brooke