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Famous British Quotes
'Genius not only diagnoses the situation but supplies the answers.'.. Robert Graves
'Words easy to be understood do often hit the mark; when high and learned ones do only pierce the air'.. John Bunyan
'It does not do to leave a live dragon out of your calculations, if you live near him'.. J R R Tolkien
'Life is far too important a thing ever to talk seriously about.'.. Oscar Wilde
'Independence? That's middle class blasphemy. We are all dependent on one another, every soul of us on earth.'.. George Bernard Shaw
'The more I study religions the more I am convinced that man never worshipped anything but himself.'.. Richard Burton
'The wisest prophets make sure of the event first.'.. Horace Walpole
'Like most of those who study history, he (Napoleon III) learned from the mistakes of the past how to make new ones.'.. A J P Taylor
'Heresies are experiments in man's unsatisfied search for truth.'.. H G Wells
'One might well say that mankind is divisible into two great classes: hosts and guests'.. Max Beerbohm
'Disease generally begins that equality which death completes.'.. Samuel Johnson
'Any subject can be made interesting, and therefore any subject can be made boring'.. Hilaire Belloc
'Laws are like cobwebs, which may catch small flies, but let wasps and hornets break through'.. Jonathan Swift
'A politician is a person with whose politics you don't agree; if you agree with him he's a statesman.'.. David Lloyd George
'No advance in wealth, no softening of manners, no reform or revolution has ever brought human equality a millimeter nearer'.. George Orwell
'A celebrity is one who is known to many persons he is glad he doesn't know'.. Lord Byron
'Selfishness is the greatest curse of the human race.'.. W E Gladstone
'It's discouraging to think how many people are shocked by honesty and how few by deceit.'.. Noel Coward
'I do not know which makes a man more conservative - to know nothing but the present, or nothing but the past'.. John Maynard Keynes
'I have the body of an eighteen year old. I keep it in the fridge.'.. Spike Milligan
'War against a foreign country only happens when the moneyed classes think they are going to profit from it'.. George Orwell
'I am not a heavy drinker. I can sometimes go for hours without touching a drop.'.. Noel Coward
'Poverty of course is no disgrace, but it is damned annoying.'.. William Pitt (The Younger)
'As no man is born an artist, so no man is born an angler.'.. Izaak Walton
'To see a world in a grain of sand and heaven in a wild flower Hold infinity in the palms of your hand and eternity in an hour'.. William Blake
'The highest possible stage in moral culture is when we recognize that we ought to control our thoughts.'.. Charles Darwin
'Advertising is legalized lying.'.. H G Wells
'Everyone seems to fear dying alone. I have never understood this - who wants to die and be polite at the same time'.. Quentin Crisp
'A smile abroad is often a scowl at home.'.. Alfred Lord Tennyson
'I think you should take your job seriously, but not yourself - that is the best combination'.. Judi Dench