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Famous British Quotes
'It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend.'.. William Blake
'Pain is no evil, unless it conquers us.'.. Charles Kingsley
'Honest people don't hide their deeds.'.. Emily Bronte
'Superstition is the religion of feeble minds.'.. Edmund Burke
'For a creative writer possession of the "truth" is less important than emotional sincerity'.. George Orwell
'Anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job.'.. Douglas Adams
'Love works a different way in different minds, the fool it enlightens and the wise it blinds'.. John Dryden
'God hangs the greatest weights upon the smallest wires.'.. Sir Francis Bacon
'I don't think Henry Kissinger would have lasted 48 hours at Old Trafford.'.. Tommy Docherty
'Music is the best means we have of digesting time.'.. W H Auden
'Before anything else, preparation is the key to success.'.. Alexander Graham Bell
'To me there has never been a higher source of earthly honor or distinction than that connected with advances in science'.. Isaac Newton
'Golf is a day spent in a round of strenuous idleness.'.. William Wordsworth
'Elegance is inferior to virtue.'.. Mary Shelley
'Patience, that blending of moral courage with physical timidity.'.. Thomas Hardy
'There are only four people who knew what the Beatles were about anyway.'.. Paul McCartney
'I've sometimes thought of marrying - and then I've thought again.'.. Noel Coward
'The thing with Hi-Tech is that you always end up using scissors'.. David Hockney
'I don't know many singers who actually do like the sound of their own voice'.. Roger Daltrey
'Conviction is worthless unless it is converted into conduct.'.. Thomas Carlyle
'Borrow trouble for yourself, if that's your nature, but don't lend it to your neighbours'.. Rudyard Kipling
'Every blessed one of you feels better for that burst of laughter.'.. Ivor Novello
'Let sleeping dogs lie.'.. Robert Walpole
'Life could be wonderful if people would leave you alone.'.. Charlie Chaplin
'I exist in a state of almost perpetual hysteria.'.. Sting
'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
'Better three hours too soon than a minute too late.'.. William Shakespeare
'Never in the way, and never out of the way.'.. Charles II
'The most precious things in speech are pauses.'.. Ralph Richardson
'Loss and possession, death and life are one, There falls no shadow where there shines no sun.'.. Hilaire Belloc