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Famous British Quotes
'A woman, the more curious she is about her face, is commonly the more careless about her house.'.. Ben Jonson
'Doubt, of whatever kind, can be ended by action alone.'.. Thomas Carlyle
'A young man who isn't a socialist hasn't got a heart; an old man who is a socialist hasn't got a head.'.. David Lloyd George
'A woman can be anything the man who loves her would have her be.'.. J M Barrie
'Gentlemen, when the enemy is committed to a mistake we must not interrupt him too soon'.. Horatio Nelson
'Ambition - it is the last infirmity of noble minds.'.. J M Barrie
'A good gulp of hot whiskey at bedtime - it's not very scientific but it helps'.. Alexander Fleming
'England and America are two countries separated by the same language.'.. George Bernard Shaw
'The delicate balance between modesty and conceit is popularity.'.. Max Beerbohm
'For several days after my first book was published, I carried it about in my pocket and took surreptitious peeps at it to make sure the ink had not faded.'.. J M Barrie
'Great men are seldom over-scrupulous in the arrangement of their attire.'.. Charles Dickens
'My character and good name are in my own keeping. Life with disgrace is dreadful. A glorious death is to be envied'.. Horatio Nelson
'The price of greatness is responsibility.'.. Winston Churchill
'A verbal art like poetry is reflective; it stops to think. Music is immediate, it goes on to become'.. W H Auden
'The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything'.. Oscar Wilde
'Originality is a thing we constantly clamour for, and constantly quarrel with.'.. Thomas Carlyle
'I want to live my life so that my nights are not full of regrets.'.. D H Lawrence
'I found longer races boring. I found the mile just perfect.'.. Roger Bannister
'I have called this principle, by which each slight variation, if useful, is preserved, by the term of Natural Selection.'.. Charles Darwin
'I like long walks, especially when they are taken by people who annoy me.'.. Noel Coward
'A mere copier of nature can never produce anything great.'.. Joshua Reynolds
'A man may be so much of everything that he is nothing of anything.'.. Samuel Johnson
'A bachelor's life is a fine breakfast, a flat lunch, and a miserable dinner.'.. Sir Francis Bacon
'Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few.'.. Winston Churchill
'A people always ends by resembling its shadow.'.. Rudyard Kipling
'Show me the man you honor, and I will know what kind of man you are.'.. Thomas Carlyle
'You will find that the woman who is really kind to dogs is always one who has failed to inspire sympathy in men'.. Max Beerbohm
'A healthy attitude is contagious but don't wait to catch it from others. Be a carrier'.. Sir Tom Stoppard
'Remember that you are an Englishman, and have consequently won first prize in the lottery of life.'.. Cecil Rhodes
'No amount of ability is of the slightest avail without honor.'.. Thomas Carlyle