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Famous British Quotes
'Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.'.. Benjamin Disraeli
'I can imagine no more comfortable frame of mind than a humorous resignation'.. Somerset Maugham
'It is a mistake to think you can solve any major problems just with potatoes'.. Douglas Adams
'One of the most important days of my life was when I learned to ride a bicycle'.. Michael Palin
'Even as a junkie I stayed true [to vegetarianism] - 'I shall have heroin, but I shan't have a hamburger.' What a sexy little paradox'.. Russell Brand
'Superstition is the religion of feeble minds.'.. Edmund Burke
'My favourite musical instrument is the telephone'.. Quentin Crisp
'I dont make predictions. I never have and I never will'.. Tony Blair
'Laziness has become the chief characteristic of journalism, displacing incompetence.'.. Sir Kingsley Amis
'One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes a revolution in order to establish a dictatorship'.. George Orwell
'Bexhill on Sea is a peck on the cheek whilst Hastings is a lolloping tongue down the throat'.. Jo Brand
'It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.'.. Oscar Wilde
'God has two dwellings; one in heaven, and the other in a meek and thankful heart.'.. Izaak Walton
'The remedy is worse than the disease.'.. Sir Francis Bacon
'Patriots always talk of dying for their country but never of killing for their country'.. Bertrand Russell
'Faith is a passionate intuition.'.. William Wordsworth
'Every man over forty is a scoundrel.'.. George Bernard Shaw
'Little children are still the symbol of the eternal marriage between love and duty.'.. George Eliot
'Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal.'.. T S Eliot
'The worst enemy of life, freedom and the common decencies is total anarchy; their second worst enemy is total efficiency.'.. Aldous Huxley
'No man was ever so completely skilled in the conduct of life, as not to receive new information from age and experience.'.. Jonathan Swift
'A poet is a professional maker of verbal objects.'.. W H Auden
'Being pregnant is an occupational hazard of being a wife.'.. Queen Victoria
'There are two things no man will admit he cannot do well: drive and make love.'.. Stirling Moss
'Dunblane Cathedral - I know not of anything so perfect in its simplicity'.. John Ruskin
'Great men are seldom over-scrupulous in the arrangement of their attire.'.. Charles Dickens
'Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same.'.. Oscar Wilde
'We've discovered that the less we do, the more money we make.'.. Eric Idle
'Authority has every reason to fear the skeptic, for authority can rarely survive in the face of doubt'.. Vita Sackville-West
'Carry out a random act of kindness, with no expectation of reward, safe in the knowledge that one day someone might do the same for you.'.. Diana Spencer