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Famous British Quotes
'Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable'.. Sir Francis Bacon
'He has all of the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.'.. Winston Churchill
'I would much prefer to be a judge than a coal miner because of the absence of falling coal'.. Peter Cook
'A man's friendships are one of the best measures of his worth.'.. Charles Darwin
'Music is the best means we have of digesting time.'.. W H Auden
'A wonderful fact to reflect upon, that every human creature is constituted to be that profound secret and mystery to every other.'.. Charles Dickens
'It is only when you see people looking ridiculous that you realize just how much you love them'.. Agatha Christie
'Electric communication will never be a substitute for the face of someone who with their soul encourages another person to be brave and true.'.. Charles Dickens
'Most people perform well in a crisis - when the spotlight is on them; it's on the Sunday afternoons of this life, when no-one is looking, that the spirit falters.'.. Alan Bennett
'God never made His work for man to mend.'.. John Dryden
'Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead'.. Oscar Wilde
'Circumstances are beyond human control, but our conduct is in our own power.'.. Benjamin Disraeli
'Man is nature's sole mistake.'.. W S Gilbert
'Nobody ever died of laughter.'.. Max Beerbohm
'It's an honor to be on the same network that gave us 'The Sopranos,' ... They made me an offer I couldn't refuse.'.. Ricky Gervais
'One leak will sink a ship: and one sin will destroy a sinner.'.. John Bunyan
'Good order is the foundation of all things.'.. Edmund Burke
'The length of a film should be directly determined by the endurance of the human bladder'.. Alfred Hitchcock
'Humiliation is the beginning of sanctification.'.. John Donne
'Fortitude is the marshal of thought, the armor of the will, and the fort of reason.'.. Sir Francis Bacon
'Our own heart, and not other men's opinions form our true honor.'.. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
'To all, to each, a fair good-night, and pleasing dreams, and slumbers light.'.. Walter Scott
'That we must all die, we always knew; I wish I had remembered it sooner.'.. Samuel Johnson
'They talk of a man betraying his country, his friends, his sweetheart. There must be a moral bond first. All a man can betray is his conscience.'.. Joseph Conrad
'Life is nothing but a competition to be the criminal rather than the victim.'.. Bertrand Russell
''Not many sounds in life exceed in interest an unexpected knock at the door''.. Charles Lamb
'I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat.'.. Winston Churchill
'Those who don't believe in magic will never find it'.. Roald Dahl
'I believe in getting in to hot water. It keeps you clean'.. GK Chesterton
'Christianity will go. It will vanish and shrink. I needn't argue with that; I'm right and I will be proved right.'.. John Lennon