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Famous British Quotes
'I think fidelity is a good idea - now that I cant walk'.. Sir John Mortimer
'Full, saturated colours have an emotional significance I want to avoid.'.. Lucien Freud
'No brilliance is needed in the law. Nothing but common sense, and relatively clean finger nails.'.. Sir John Mortimer
'Integrity is so perishable in the summer months of success.'.. Vanessa Redgrave
'He who seeks rest finds boredom. He who seeks work finds rest.'.. Dylan Thomas
'Almost every man wastes part of his life attempting to display qualities which he does not possess'.. Samuel Johnson
'To all, to each, a fair good-night, and pleasing dreams, and slumbers light.'.. Walter Scott
'The truth that is suppressed by friends is the readiest weapon of the enemy.'.. Robert Louis Stevenson
'He who rejects change is the architect of decay. The only human institution which rejects progress is the cemetery'.. Harold Wilson
'The path of least resistance is the path of the loser.'.. H G Wells
'If you carry your childhood with you, you never become older.'.. Sir Tom Stoppard
'A difference of taste in jokes is a great strain on the affections.'.. George Eliot
'Woman begins by resisting a man's advances and ends by blocking his retreat.'.. Oscar Wilde
'Economic advance is not the same thing as human progress'.. John Clapham
'So I was getting into my car, and this bloke says to me "Can you give me a lift?" I said "Sure, you look great, the world's your oyster, go for it."'.. Tommy Cooper
'I'm not as thrilled with myself as I used to be.'.. Oliver Reed
'Sooner or later everyone sits down to a banquet of consequences.'.. Robert Louis Stevenson
'One is certain of nothing but the truth of one's own emotions.'.. E M Forster
'Consistency is the last refuge of the unimaginative.'.. Oscar Wilde
'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
'If God did not intend for us to eat animals, then why did he make them out of meat?'.. John Cleese
'It's not the having, it's the getting.'.. Elizabeth Taylor
'Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable'.. Sir Francis Bacon
'A man lives by believing something: not by debating and arguing about many things.'.. Thomas Carlyle
'Wonders will never cease.'.. David Garrick
'Kings govern by means of popular assemblies only when they cannot do without them'.. Charles James Fox
'Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown.'.. William Shakespeare
'I sometimes think that God in creating man somewhat overestimated his ability.'.. Oscar Wilde
'Indifference and neglect often do much more damage than outright dislike.'.. J K Rowling
'In the long history of humankind (and animal kind, too) those who learned to collaborate and improvise most effectively have prevailed.'.. Charles Darwin