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Famous British Quotes
'I hate the idea of causes, and if I had to choose between betraying my country and betraying my friend, I hope I should have the guts to betray my country'.. E M Forster
'It is necessary to relax your muscles when you can. Relaxing your brain is fatal.'.. Stirling Moss
'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
'It's not the voting that's democracy; it's the counting.'.. Sir Tom Stoppard
'The difference between Socrates and Jesus? The great conscious and the immeasurably great unconscious'.. Thomas Carlyle
'The art galleries of Paris contain the finest collection of frames I ever saw'.. Humphry Davy
'If you want to see my monument, look around you'.. Christopher Wren
'Consistency is the last refuge of the unimaginative.'.. Oscar Wilde
'What's done can't be undone.'.. William Shakespeare
'Capitalism is the astounding belief that the most wickedest of men will do the most wickedest of things for the greatest good of everyone'.. John Maynard Keynes
'An asylum for the sane would be empty in America.'.. George Bernard Shaw
''Tis love that makes the world go round'.. Charles Dickens
'Oh, 'tis love, 'tis love that makes the world go round.'.. Lewis Carroll
'A woman, especially, if she have the misfortune of knowing anything, should conceal it as well as she can'.. Jane Austen
'Circumstances are beyond human control, but our conduct is in our own power.'.. Benjamin Disraeli
'Incongruity is the mainspring of laughter.'.. Max Beerbohm
'By indignities men come to dignities.'.. Sir Francis Bacon
'General principles... are to the facts as the root and sap of a tree are to its leaves'.. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
'For a creative writer possession of the "truth" is less important than emotional sincerity'.. George Orwell
'Nature uses as little as possible of anything'.. Alan Bleasdale
'There are only four people who knew what the Beatles were about anyway.'.. Paul McCartney
'The more we study the more we discover our ignorance.'.. Percy Bysshe Shelley
'I hate the word `hate`.'.. Peter Cushing
'Never forget that only dead fish swim with the stream.'.. Malcolm Muggeridge
'The worst moment for the atheist is when he is really thankful and has nobody to thank.'.. Dante G Rossetti
'A woman, the more curious she is about her face, is commonly the more careless about her house.'.. Ben Jonson
'He that loves to be flattered is worthy o' the flatterer.'.. William Shakespeare
'Make yourself an honest man, and then you may be sure there is one less rascal in the world'.. Thomas Carlyle
'Almost all crime is due to the repressed desire for aesthetic expression.'.. Evelyn Waugh
'I shouldn't be saying this - high treason, really - but I sometimes wonder if Americans aren't fooled by our accent into detecting brilliance that may not really be there'.. Stephen Fry