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Famous British Quotes
'During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act'.. George Orwell
'Parliament must not be told a direct untruth, but it's quite possible to allow them to mislead themselves'.. Norman Tebbit
'First law on holes - when you're in one, stop digging!'.. Denis Healey
'A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.'.. Douglas Adams
'It is curious that every creed promises a paradise on death which is unthinkable for anyone of taste'.. Evelyn Waugh
'I sometimes think that the price of liberty is not so much eternal vigilance as eternal dirt'.. George Orwell
'Breed is stronger than pasture.'.. George Eliot
'Milford Haven - the finest port of Christendom'.. Horatio Nelson
'Endurance is patience concentrated.'.. Thomas Carlyle
'Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal.'.. T S Eliot
'Death destroys a man, but the idea of death saves him.'.. E M Forster
'Life’s never a postcard of life, is it? It never feels like how you’d want it to look'.. Russell Brand
'I love a scary movie. It makes your toes curl and it's not you going through it.'.. Sir Anthony Hopkins
'Man is an animal that makes bargains: no other animal does this - no dog exchanges bones with another.'.. Adam Smith
'I'm a hero with coward's legs.'.. Spike Milligan
'Happiness can exist only in acceptance.'.. George Orwell
'Dunblane Cathedral - I know not of anything so perfect in its simplicity'.. John Ruskin
'I hate the word `hate`.'.. Peter Cushing
'It is an old maxim of mine that when you have excluded the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.'.. Arthur Conan Doyle
'I would rather trust a woman's instinct than a man's reason.'.. Stanley Baldwin
'If Galileo had said in verse that the world moved, the inquisition might have let him alone'.. Thomas Hardy
'The first condition of progress is the removal of censorship.'.. George Bernard Shaw
'Having a great intellect is no path to being happy.'.. Stephen Fry
'Being deaf and partially blind means I don't really watch TV. I wouldn't know what to do with a remote control.'.. Eric Sykes
'Man tends to increase at a greater rate than his means of subsistence.'.. Charles Darwin
'Grab a chance and you won't be sorry for a might-have-been.'.. Arthur Ransome
'My face looks like a wedding-cake left out in the rain.'.. W H Auden
'To destroy is still the strongest instinct in nature.'.. Max Beerbohm
'All sympathy not consistent with acknowledged virtue is but disguised selfishness'.. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
'I am told that I talk in shorthand and then smudge it.'.. J R R Tolkien