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Famous British Quotes
'Ending a sentence with a preposition is something up with which I will not put.'.. Winston Churchill
'Cowards die many times before their deaths; the valiant never taste of death but once'.. William Shakespeare
'Heroes, whatever high ideas we may have of them, are mortal and not divine. We are all as God made us and many of us much worse.'.. John Osborne
'Always be a little kinder than necessary.'.. J M Barrie
'Knowledge is power.'.. Sir Francis Bacon
'It is widely held that too much wine will dull a man's desire. Indeed it will in a dull man'.. John Osborne
'I am prepared to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter.'.. Winston Churchill
'As covetousness is the root of all evil, so poverty is the worst of all snares.'.. Daniel Defoe
'Thank you for leaving us alone but giving us enough attention to boost our egos'.. Mick Jagger
'How little do they see what is, who frame their hasty judgments upon that which seems'.. Robert Southey
'Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other.'.. Edmund Burke
'Its the menopause. I have got my own climate'.. Julie Walters
'The more we elaborate our means of communication, the less we communicate'.. J B Priestley
'Only mediocrity can be trusted to be always at its best.'.. Max Beerbohm
'I am told that I talk in shorthand and then smudge it.'.. J R R Tolkien
''Tis the last rose of summer Left blooming alone; All her lovely companions Are faded and gone.'.. Thomas More
'A room without books is like a body without a soul.'.. GK Chesterton
'Pessimist: One who, when he has the choice of two evils, chooses both'.. Oscar Wilde
'In English villages you turn over a stone and never know what might creep out'.. Agatha Christie
'At the side of the everlasting why, is a yes, and a yes, and a yes.'.. E M Forster
'You will be better advised to watch what we do instead of what we say.'.. A A Milne
'Jogging is for people who aren't intelligent enough to watch breakfast TV'.. Victoria Wood
'An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered'.. GK Chesterton
'God hangs the greatest weights upon the smallest wires.'.. Sir Francis Bacon
'Any truth is better than indefinite doubt.'.. Arthur Conan Doyle
'Doubt, of whatever kind, can be ended by action alone.'.. Thomas Carlyle
'Have a heart that never hardens, and a temper that never tires, and a touch that never hurts.'.. Charles Dickens
'I'm a holy man minus the holiness.'.. E M Forster
'A man must make his opportunity, as oft as find it.'.. Sir Francis Bacon
'Who's ever going to write a film in which I get the girl? Me!'.. John Cleese