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Famous British Quotes
'Health is the state about which medicine has nothing to say.'.. W H Auden
'The dictum that truth always triumphs over persecution is one of the pleasant falsehoods which men repeat after one another till they pass into commonplaces, but which all experience refutes.'.. John Stuart Mill
'I'm a classic example of all humorists - only funny when I'm working'.. Peter Sellers
'No amount of ability is of the slightest avail without honor.'.. Thomas Carlyle
'Ideas shape the course of history.'.. John Maynard Keynes
'Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable'.. Sir Francis Bacon
'A gentleman is one who puts more into the world than he takes out'.. George Bernard Shaw
'A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of'.. Jane Austen
'A lot of football success is in the mind. You must believe you are the best and then make sure that you are.'.. Bill Shankly
'Music and woman I cannot but give way to, whatever my business is.'.. Samuel Pepys
'I would rather trust a woman's instinct than a man's reason.'.. Stanley Baldwin
'My Father had a profound influence on me, he was a lunatic.'.. Spike Milligan
'If you are going through hell keep going'.. Winston Churchill
'What's done can't be undone.'.. William Shakespeare
'Things which do not require effort of some sort are seldom worth having'.. Ivor Novello
'He who sows hurry reaps indigestion.'.. Robert Louis Stevenson
'I do not live in the world of sobriety.'.. Oliver Reed
'All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others'.. George Orwell
'All money is a matter of belief.'.. Adam Smith
'It was a very simple team talk. All I used to say was: 'Whenever possible, give the ball to George'.. Matt Busby
'Diplomats were invented simply to waste time.'.. David Lloyd George
'Difficulties mastered are opportunities won.'.. Winston Churchill
'A diplomat is a man who thinks twice before he says nothing.'.. Edward Heath
'Pride the first peer and president of hell.'.. Daniel Defoe
'Despair is the conclusion of fools.'.. Benjamin Disraeli
'Jealousy is the jaundice of the soul.'.. John Dryden
'I can take any amount of criticism as long as its unqualifed praise'.. Noel Coward
'One who does not know when to die, does not know how to live.'.. John Ruskin
'Pessimist: One who, when he has the choice of two evils, chooses both'.. Oscar Wilde
'It was fantastic to work in Cornwall partly because my family live there so I was able to do lots of visiting and eat lots of cake.'.. Dawn French