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Famous British Quotes
'Common sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom'.. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
'Dangerous foreigners begin at Calais and dont stop until you get to Bombay where they play cricket and speak English'.. Clement Attlee
'Consequences are unpitying.'.. George Eliot
'Everybody loves you when you're six foot in the ground.'.. John Lennon
'Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not; a sense of humor to console him for what he is.'.. Sir Francis Bacon
'No man ever became great or good except through many and great mistakes.'.. W E Gladstone
'My only regret in life is that I did not drink more champagne'.. John Maynard Keynes
'Only a mediocre person is always at his best.'.. Somerset Maugham
'I do not believe that any man fears to be dead, but only the stroke of death'.. Sir Francis Bacon
'Health is the state about which medicine has nothing to say.'.. W H Auden
'Men! The only animal in the world to fear.'.. D H Lawrence
'A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing'.. George Bernard Shaw
'Never trust a man who does not have a single redeeming vice'.. Winston Churchill
'There were many times my pants were so thin I could sit on a dime and tell if it was heads or tails.'.. Jonathan Swift
'The limits of the possible can only be defined by going beyond them into the impossible.'.. Arthur C Clarke
'Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.'.. Benjamin Disraeli
'Deep-versed in books and shallow in himself.'.. John Milton
'Life, as I discovered, holds no more wretched occupation than trying to make the English laugh.'.. Malcolm Muggeridge
'It is not reasonable that those who gamble with men's lives should not stake their own.'.. H G Wells
'The boughs that bear most hang lowest.'.. David Garrick
'All heiresses are beautiful.'.. John Dryden
'No minister ever stood, or could stand, against public opinion.'.. Robert Peel
'There are three rules for writing a novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are'.. Somerset Maugham
'One should always play fairly when one has the winning cards.'.. Oscar Wilde
'The only fence against the world is a thorough knowledge of it.'.. John Locke
'There is not in nature, a thing that makes man so deformed, so beastly, as doth intemperate anger.'.. Alan Bleasdale
'If you want to see my monument, look around you'.. Christopher Wren
'It is not how much one makes but to what purpose one spends.'.. John Ruskin
'The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age, which mean never losing your enthusiasm.'.. Aldous Huxley
'Such as we are made of, such we be.'.. William Shakespeare