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Famous British Quotes
'You can preach a better sermon with your life than with your lips.'.. Oliver Goldsmith
'Adversity is the first path to truth.'.. Lord Byron
'A man never tells you anything until you contradict him.'.. George Bernard Shaw
'Everybody grows but me.'.. Queen Victoria
'Above our life we love a steadfast friend.'.. Christopher Marlowe
'Good order is the foundation of all things.'.. Edmund Burke
'Any truth is better than indefinite doubt.'.. Arthur Conan Doyle
'A State without the means of some change is without the means of its conservation.'.. Edmund Burke
'The kind of people who always go on about whether a thing is in good taste invariably have very bad taste'.. Joe Orton
'I am not struck so much by the diversity of testimony as by the many-sidedness of truth.'.. Stanley Baldwin
'Bournemouth is one of the few English towns that one can safely call 'her''.. John Betjeman
'The light, that lies In woman's eyes, Has been my heart's undoing.'.. Thomas More
'The one haunting and exasperatingly lovable city in Scotland'.. Lewis Gibbon
'When I am dead, I hope it may be said: His sins were scarlet, but his books were read'.. Hilaire Belloc
'Probably the battle of Waterloo was won on the playing-fields of Eton, but the opening battles of all subsequent wars have been lost there'.. George Orwell
'Corruption is nature's way of restoring our faith in democracy.'.. Peter Ustinov
'Fertilizer does no good in a heap, but a little spread around works miracles all over.'.. Richard Sheridan
'He that hath knowledge spareth his words.'.. Sir Francis Bacon
'There is always time for failure.'.. Sir John Mortimer
'Without frugality none can be rich, and with it very few would be poor.'.. Samuel Johnson
'Death is the sound of distant thunder at a picnic.'.. W H Auden
'The courage we desire and prize is not the courage to die decently, but to live manfully'.. Thomas Carlyle
'The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter.'.. Winston Churchill
'Art is the symbol of the two noblest human efforts: to construct and to refrain from destruction.'.. Evelyn Waugh
'Do noble things, not dream them all day long.'.. Charles Kingsley
'We give advice by the bucket, but take it by the grain.'.. Sir Tom Stoppard
'An asylum for the sane would be empty in America.'.. George Bernard Shaw
'One might well say that mankind is divisible into two great classes: hosts and guests'.. Max Beerbohm
'Genius at first is little more than a great capacity for receiving discipline'.. George Eliot
'When a man is tired of London, he is tired of life; for there is in London all that life can afford.'.. Samuel Johnson