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Famous British Quotes
'What really matters is what you do with what you have.'.. H G Wells
'If you aren't in over your head, how do you know how tall you are?'.. T S Eliot
'There's no use doing a kindness if you do it a day too late.'.. Charles Kingsley
'Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point.'.. C S Lewis
'Beauty is a short-lived tyranny.'.. George Bernard Shaw
'Riches are a good hand maiden, but a poor mistress.'.. Sir Francis Bacon
'The only exercise I take is walking behind the coffins of friends who have taken too much exercise'.. Peter O’Toole
'Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons'.. Bertrand Russell
'A new philosophy generally means in practice the praise of some old vice'.. GK Chesterton
'Authority has every reason to fear the skeptic, for authority can rarely survive in the face of doubt'.. Vita Sackville-West
'He who seeks rest finds boredom. He who seeks work finds rest.'.. Dylan Thomas
'The greatest pleasure I know is to do a good action by stealth and have it found out by accident.'.. Charles Lamb
'The best car safety device is a rear-view mirror with a cop in it'.. Dudley Moore
'He that hath knowledge spareth his words.'.. Sir Francis Bacon
'May you live every day of your life.'.. Jonathan Swift
'He that will enjoy the brightness of sunshine, must quit the coolness of the shade'.. Samuel Johnson
'So I was getting into my car, and this bloke says to me "Can you give me a lift?" I said "Sure, you look great, the world's your oyster, go for it."'.. Tommy Cooper
'No minister ever stood, or could stand, against public opinion.'.. Robert Peel
'I've sometimes thought of marrying - and then I've thought again.'.. Noel Coward
'Fashion is what you adopt when you dont know who you are'.. Quentin Crisp
'I look upon every day to be lost, in which I do not make a new acquaintance'.. Samuel Johnson
'I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires, rather than in attempting to satisfy them.'.. John Stuart Mill
'I love a scary movie. It makes your toes curl and it's not you going through it.'.. Sir Anthony Hopkins
'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
'Someone told me that each equation I included in the book would halve the sales.'.. Stephen Hawking
'By gnawing through a dike, even a rat may drown a nation.'.. Edmund Burke
'I have a face like the behind of an elephant.'.. Charles Laughton
'The marvelous thing about a joke with a double meaning is that it can only mean one thing'.. Ronnie Barker
'Only a mediocre person is always at his best.'.. Somerset Maugham
'I hate the word `hate`.'.. Peter Cushing