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Famous British Quotes
'Its easy to distract fat people. A piece of cake'.. Chris Addison
'Silence is the most perfect expression of scorn.'.. George Bernard Shaw
'A neurosis is a secret that you don't know you are keeping.'.. Kenneth Tynan
'The disease which inflicts bureaucracy and what they usually die from is routine'.. John Stuart Mill
'Unless we remember we cannot understand.'.. E M Forster
'The man who can dominate a London dinner-table can dominate the world'.. Oscar Wilde
'Alcohol is the anesthesia by which we endure the operation of life.'.. George Bernard Shaw
'Humankind cannot bear very much reality.'.. T S Eliot
'What really matters is what you do with what you have.'.. H G Wells
'Man is nature's sole mistake.'.. W S Gilbert
'When one is writing a novel in the first person, one must be that person.'.. Daphne du Maurier
'Man is an animal that makes bargains: no other animal does this - no dog exchanges bones with another.'.. Adam Smith
'Compromise is the best and cheapest lawyer.'.. Robert Louis Stevenson
'Responsibilities gravitate to the person who can shoulder them.'.. Sir Tom Stoppard
'There are some ideas so wrong that only a very intelligent person could believe in them'.. George Orwell
'I don't pretend to understand the Universe - it's a great deal bigger than I am.'.. Thomas Carlyle
'Better to go than sit around being a terrible old bore.'.. Auberon Waugh
'One of the greatest problems of our time is that many are schooled but few are educated'.. Thomas More
'We build too many walls and not enough bridges.'.. Isaac Newton
'There is frequently more to be learned from the unexpected questions of a child than the discourses of men'.. John Locke
'Pain is no evil, unless it conquers us.'.. Charles Kingsley
'As no man is born an artist, so no man is born an angler.'.. Izaak Walton
'Concentrate all your thoughts upon the work at hand. The sun's rays do not burn until brought to a focus.'.. Alexander Graham Bell
'The greatest pleasure I know is to do a good action by stealth and have it found out by accident.'.. Charles Lamb
'I am not struck so much by the diversity of testimony as by the many-sidedness of truth.'.. Stanley Baldwin
'When you read and understand a poem, comprehending its rich and formal meanings, then you master chaos a little.'.. Stephen Spender
'This report, by its very length, defends itself against the risk of being read.'.. Winston Churchill
'What worries you, masters you.'.. John Locke
'It is in men as in soils where sometimes there is a vein of gold which the owner knows not'.. Jonathan Swift
'A diplomat is a man who thinks twice before he says nothing.'.. Edward Heath