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Famous British Quotes
'I try to avoid looking forward or backward, and try to keep looking upward.'.. Charlotte Bronte
'Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable'.. Sir Francis Bacon
'Only mediocrity can be trusted to be always at its best.'.. Max Beerbohm
'Facts are to the mind what food is to the body.'.. Edmund Burke
'Speed has never killed anyone, suddenly becoming stationary… that’s what gets you'.. Jeremy Clarkson
'I desire no future that will break the ties with the past.'.. George Eliot
'It is a mistake to think you can solve any major problems just with potatoes'.. Douglas Adams
'Anything's possible if you've got enough nerve.'.. J K Rowling
'The important thing is to know how to take all things quietly.'.. Michael Faraday
'We pay when old for the excesses of youth.'.. J B Priestley
'All wealth is the product of labour.'.. John Locke
'I can only go one way. I've not got a reverse gear.'.. Tony Blair
'The stars, that nature hung in heaven, and filled their lamps with everlasting oil, give due light to the misled and lonely traveller'.. John Milton
'Charity begins at home, and justice begins next door.'.. Charles Dickens
'It is a mistake to look too far ahead. Only one link of the chain of destiny can be handled at a time'.. Winston Churchill
'Death is just life's next big adventure.'.. J K Rowling
'I got nasty habits; I take tea at three.'.. Mick Jagger
'I`ve arrived, and to prove it, I`m here.'.. Max Bygraves
'The courage we desire and prize is not the courage to die decently, but to live manfully'.. Thomas Carlyle
'Age is a very high price to pay for maturity.'.. Sir Tom Stoppard
'Corruption never has been compulsory.'.. Anthony Eden
'The profession of a prostitute is the only career in which the maximum income is paid to the newest apprentice'.. William Booth
'History shows that the majority of people that have done anything great have passed their youth in seclusion'.. Thomas Carlyle
'Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers.'.. Alfred Lord Tennyson
'I see music as one language. If one musical form eats its own tail, it dies. So it needs to be a mongrel, it needs to be hybridised.'.. Sting
'I am determined that my children shall be brought up in their father's religion, if they can find out what it is.'.. Charles Lamb
'To refuse awards is another way of accepting them with more noise than is normal'.. Peter Ustinov
'He who would search for pearls must dive below.'.. John Dryden
'I love a scary movie. It makes your toes curl and it's not you going through it.'.. Sir Anthony Hopkins
'In love as in sport, the amateur status must be strictly maintained.'.. Robert Graves