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Famous British Quotes
'Breed is stronger than pasture.'.. George Eliot
'I am prepared to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter.'.. Winston Churchill
'Friendship is certainly the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love'.. Jane Austen
'A minute's success pays the failure of years.'.. Robert Browning
'It only takes a room of Americans for the English and Australians to realise how much we have in common.'.. Stephen Fry
'Better to be without logic than without feeling.'.. Charlotte Bronte
'No man can be an agnostic who has a sense of humour.'.. E M Forster
'There are grounds for cautious optimism that we may now be near the end of the search for the ultimate laws of nature.'.. Stephen Hawking
'The very essence of instinct is that it's followed independently of reason.'.. Charles Darwin
'Men of power have no time to read; yet the men who do not read are unfit for power'.. Michael Foot
'There are some things you can't share without ending up liking each other.'.. J K Rowling
'The love of a mother is the veil of a softer light between the heart and the heavenly Father'.. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
'I would die for my country but I could never let my country die for me'.. Neil Kinnock
'Man is an animal that makes bargains: no other animal does this - no dog exchanges bones with another.'.. Adam Smith
'Many a man is praised for his reserve and so-called shyness when he is simply too proud to risk making a fool of himself.'.. J B Priestley
'Dangerous foreigners begin at Calais and dont stop until you get to Bombay where they play cricket and speak English'.. Clement Attlee
'Deep-versed in books and shallow in himself.'.. John Milton
'Nothing is so fatal to religion as indifference.'.. Edmund Burke
'We dont know much about the human conscience except that its soluble in alcohol'.. Sir John Mortimer
'Now that I know what I want, I don't have to hold on to it quite so much.'.. Lucien Freud
'Full, saturated colours have an emotional significance I want to avoid.'.. Lucien Freud
'Grab a chance and you won't be sorry for a might-have-been.'.. Arthur Ransome
'There's no use doing a kindness if you do it a day too late.'.. Charles Kingsley
'Spoon feeding in the long run teaches us nothing but the shape of the spoon.'.. E M Forster
'Being pregnant is an occupational hazard of being a wife.'.. Queen Victoria
'One forgets words as one forgets names. One's vocabulary needs constant fertilizing or it will die.'.. Evelyn Waugh
'The politician who never made a mistake never made a decision.'.. John Major
'English winters are like the 1st world war. You start thinking am I going to get to the end of this'.. John Cleese
'Man has almost constant occasion for the help of his brethren, and it is in vain for him to expect it from their benevolence only.'.. Adam Smith
'A tavern is a place where madness is sold by the bottle.'.. Jonathan Swift