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Famous British Quotes
'The House of Lords is like a glass of champagne that has stood for five days'.. Clement Attlee
'Blessed is the influence of one true, loving human soul on another.'.. George Eliot
'All war represents a failure of diplomacy.'.. Tony Benn
'I don't work at being ordinary.'.. Paul McCartney
'He who seeks rest finds boredom. He who seeks work finds rest.'.. Dylan Thomas
'We pay when old for the excesses of youth.'.. J B Priestley
'Conceit is the finest armour a man can wear.'.. Jerome K Jerome
'On the whole, human beings want to be good, but not too good, and not quite all the time'.. George Orwell
'A man is in general better pleased when he has a good dinner upon his table, than when his wife talks Greek'.. Samuel Johnson
'Life is what happens while you are busy making other plans.'.. John Lennon
'To be blind is not miserable; not to be able to bear blindness, that is miserable'.. John Milton
'All that a husband or wife really wants is to be pitied a little, praised a little, and appreciated a little'.. Oliver Goldsmith
'It is not reasonable that those who gamble with men's lives should not stake their own.'.. H G Wells
'Soul meets soul on lovers' lips.'.. Percy Bysshe Shelley
'Every man who is high up likes to think that he has done it all himself, and the wife smiles and lets it go at that'.. J M Barrie
'Every man over forty is a scoundrel.'.. George Bernard Shaw
'Look back, and smile on perils past.'.. Walter Scott
'The overall impression from the British is that they love France but would prefer it if the French didn't live there'.. Sir John Mortimer
'Unintelligent people always look for a scapegoat.'.. Ernest Bevin
'Concentrate all your thoughts upon the work at hand. The sun's rays do not burn until brought to a focus.'.. Alexander Graham Bell
'I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many unsigned poems, was a woman'.. Virginia Woolf
'Almost all crime is due to the repressed desire for aesthetic expression.'.. Evelyn Waugh
'True it is that covetousness is rich, modesty starves.'.. John Milton
'An asylum for the sane would be empty in America.'.. George Bernard Shaw
'The difference between England and the USA is that when we have a world eries we invite other countries to participate'.. John Cleese
'There are strings in the human heart that had better not be vibrated.'.. Charles Dickens
'Theoretical principals must sometimes give way for the sake of practical advantages.'.. William Pitt (The Younger)
'A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty'.. Winston Churchill
'God has two dwellings; one in heaven, and the other in a meek and thankful heart.'.. Izaak Walton
'One person with a belief is equal to ninety-nine who have only interests'.. John Stuart Mill