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Famous British Quotes
'There is no instinct like that of the heart.'.. Lord Byron
'It's not whether you win or lose, it's how many people remember you when you die.'.. Jonathan Ross
'Better a witty fool than a foolish wit.'.. William Shakespeare
'War is a quarrel between two thieves too cowardly to fight their own battle.'.. Thomas Carlyle
'Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same.'.. Oscar Wilde
'Five minutes on even the nicest mountain is awfully long'.. W H Auden
'We always have been, we are, and I hope that we always will be detested in France'.. Duke of Wellington
'You may be as vicious about me as you please. You will only do me justice.'.. Richard Burton
'Gentlemen, when the enemy is committed to a mistake we must not interrupt him too soon'.. Horatio Nelson
'Between friends differences in taste or opinion are irritating in direct proportion to their triviality.'.. W H Auden
'Continuous effort - not strength or intelligence - is the key to unlocking our potential'.. Winston Churchill
'Every great person is always being helped by everybody; for their gift is to get good out of all things and all persons.'.. John Ruskin
'Something unpleasant is coming when men are anxious to tell the truth'.. Benjamin Disraeli
'The only exercise I take is walking behind the coffins of friends who have taken too much exercise'.. Peter O’Toole
'Ours is an excessively conscious age. We know so much, we feel so little.'.. D H Lawrence
'He that gives good advice, builds with one hand; he that gives good counsel and example, builds with both'.. Sir Francis Bacon
'He has sat on the fence so long that the iron has entered his soul.'.. David Lloyd George
'Marriage is like paying an endless visit in your worst clothes.'.. J B Priestley
'The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost.'.. GK Chesterton
'Enlightened people seldom or never possess a sense of responsibility'.. George Orwell
'What is easy is seldom excellent.'.. Samuel Johnson
'I like long walks, especially when they are taken by people who annoy me.'.. Noel Coward
'You write with ease to show your breeding, but easy writing's curst hard reading.'.. Richard Sheridan
'Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point.'.. C S Lewis
'Long hair is an unpardonable offense which should be punishable by death.'.. Morrissey
'Coincidences are spiritual puns.'.. GK Chesterton
'I could not live in a country so miserable as to possess no castles'.. John Ruskin
'The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good'.. Samuel Johnson
'Oh the nerves, the nerves; the mysteries of this machine called man! Oh the little that unhinges it, poor creatures that we are!'.. Charles Dickens
'Elegance is inferior to virtue.'.. Mary Shelley