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Famous British Quotes
'The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good'.. Samuel Johnson
'I am not struck so much by the diversity of testimony as by the many-sidedness of truth.'.. Stanley Baldwin
'We cherish our friends not for their ability to amuse us, but for ours to amuse them.'.. Evelyn Waugh
'It's not whether you win or lose, it's how many people remember you when you die.'.. Jonathan Ross
'Death is the only pure, beautiful conclusion of a great passion.'.. D H Lawrence
'Life is nothing but a competition to be the criminal rather than the victim.'.. Bertrand Russell
'The fickleness of the women I love is only equalled by the infernal constancy of the women who love me'.. George Bernard Shaw
'Fill your paper with the breathings of your heart.'.. William Wordsworth
'Being pregnant is an occupational hazard of being a wife.'.. Queen Victoria
'To have news value is to have a tin can tied to one's tail.'.. T E Lawrence
'In order that people may be happy in their work, these three things are needed: They must be fit for it. They must not do too much of it. And they must have a sense of success in it.'.. John Ruskin
'Promises and pie-crust are made to be broken.'.. Jonathan Swift
'We know what we are, but know not what we may be.'.. William Shakespeare
'It's an honor to be on the same network that gave us 'The Sopranos,' ... They made me an offer I couldn't refuse.'.. Ricky Gervais
'Life is a tragedy when seen in close-up, but a comedy in long-shot.'.. Charlie Chaplin
'A new philosophy generally means in practice the praise of some old vice'.. GK Chesterton
'Taste every fruit of every tree in the garden at least once. It is an insult to creation not to experience it fully. Temperance is wickedness'.. Stephen Fry
'The greatest problem about old age is the fear that it may go on too long.'.. A J P Taylor
'Poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese'.. GK Chesterton
'We always love those who admire us; we do not always love those whom we admire.'.. Rupert Brooke
'Reading without reflecting is like eating without digesting.'.. Edmund Burke
'The performances you have in your head are always much better than the performances on stage'.. Maggie Smith
'Genius not only diagnoses the situation but supplies the answers.'.. Robert Graves
'No distance of place or lapse of time can lessen the friendship of those who are thoroughly persuaded of each other's worth'.. Robert Southey
'You cannot antagonize and influence at the same time.'.. John Knox
'I have a great mind to believe in Christianity for the mere pleasure of fancying I may be damned'.. Lord Byron
'Laughter would be bereaved if snobbery died.'.. Peter Ustinov
'I have changed. I no longer keep coal in the bath. I keep it in the bidet'.. John Prescott
'Dictators free themselves, but they enslave the people.'.. Charlie Chaplin
'Death is no different whined at than withstood.'.. Philip Larkin