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Famous British Quotes
'Parents are the bones on which children cut their teeth.'.. Peter Ustinov
'I try to avoid looking forward or backward, and try to keep looking upward.'.. Charlotte Bronte
'Alcohol is the anesthesia by which we endure the operation of life.'.. George Bernard Shaw
'One of the most important days of my life was when I learned to ride a bicycle'.. Michael Palin
'Old Professors never die, they just lose their faculties.'.. Stephen Fry
'Quality is never an accident. It is always the result of intelligent effort.'.. John Ruskin
'Pleasure and action make the hours seem short.'.. William Shakespeare
'Boredom is the legitimate kingdom of the philanthropic.'.. Virginia Woolf
'True happiness consists not in the multitude of friends, but in the worth and choice.'.. Ben Jonson
'We build too many walls and not enough bridges.'.. Isaac Newton
'To myself I am only a child playing on the beach, while vast oceans of truth lie undiscovered before me'.. Isaac Newton
'Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point.'.. C S Lewis
'To me there has never been a higher source of earthly honor or distinction than that connected with advances in science'.. Isaac Newton
'The price of greatness is responsibility.'.. Winston Churchill
'Love seeketh not itself to please, nor for itself hath any care, but for another gives its ease, and builds a Heaven in Hell's despair'.. William Blake
'I spent many years laughing at Harry Secombe's singing until somebody told me that it wasn't a joke.'.. Spike Milligan
'The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter.'.. Winston Churchill
'To every action there is always opposed an equal reaction.'.. Isaac Newton
'I'm always looking for meaningful one-night stands'.. Dudley Moore
'Whether happiness may come or not, one should try and prepare one's self to do without it.'.. George Eliot
'Divorce is a game played by lawyers.'.. Cary Grant
'The greatest good you can do for another is not just to share your riches but to reveal to him his own.'.. Benjamin Disraeli
'Every blessed one of you feels better for that burst of laughter.'.. Ivor Novello
'Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.'.. Benjamin Disraeli
'It's not wise to violate rules until you know how to observe them.'.. T S Eliot
'Greatness and goodness are not means, but ends.'.. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
'Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.'.. George Bernard Shaw
'It is curious that every creed promises a paradise on death which is unthinkable for anyone of taste'.. Evelyn Waugh
'I never saw an ugly thing in my life: for let the form of an object be what it may, - light, shade, and perspective will always make it beautiful'.. John Constable
'One should always be in love. That is the reason one should never marry.'.. Oscar Wilde