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Famous British Quotes
'The greatest pleasure I know is to do a good action by stealth and have it found out by accident.'.. Charles Lamb
'Progress everywhere today does seem to come so very heavily disguised as Chaos'.. Joyce Grenfell
'Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.'.. Edmund Burke
'One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes a revolution in order to establish a dictatorship'.. George Orwell
'Give him enough rope and he will hang himself.'.. Charlotte Bronte
'It is not real work unless you would rather be doing something else.'.. J M Barrie
'Artists aren't really people. And I'm actually 40 per cent papier mache'.. Morrissey
'Have you ever noticed? Anybody going slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than you is a maniac'.. Ronnie Corbett
'When a man is wrapped up in himself, he makes a pretty small package'.. John Ruskin
'War is evil, but it is often the lesser evil.'.. George Orwell
'I have long held the view that if a Vet cannot catch his patient there is not much to worry about'.. James Herriot
'We are all here on earth to help others; what on earth the others are here for I don't know.'.. W H Auden
'There is only one religion, though there are a hundred versions of it.'.. George Bernard Shaw
'Gossip is what no one claims to like, but everybody enjoys.'.. Joseph Conrad
'When one is writing a novel in the first person, one must be that person.'.. Daphne du Maurier
'Intelligence is the ability to adapt to change.'.. Stephen Hawking
'If you feel that life is one of Gods jokes there is still no reason not to make it a good oke'.. Kenneth Williams
'We are stripped bare by the curse of plenty.'.. Winston Churchill
'You can give without loving, but you can never love without giving.'.. Robert Louis Stevenson
'I sometimes think that God in creating man somewhat overestimated his ability.'.. Oscar Wilde
'The main facts in human life are five: birth, food, sleep, love and death'.. E M Forster
'Everyone seems to fear dying alone. I have never understood this - who wants to die and be polite at the same time'.. Quentin Crisp
'Some of my best leading men have been dogs and horses.'.. Elizabeth Taylor
'No one does anything from a single motive.'.. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
'The dread of evil is a much more forcible principle of human actions than the prospect of good.'.. John Locke
'A precedent embalms a principle.'.. Benjamin Disraeli
'When a society has to resort to the lavatory for its humour the writing is on the wall'.. Alan Bennett
'I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite'.. GK Chesterton
'Alcohol is the anesthesia by which we endure the operation of life.'.. George Bernard Shaw
'Beware the fury of a patient man.'.. John Dryden