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Famous British Quotes
'Discretion is the polite word for hypocrisy'.. Christine Keeler
'A loving heart is the truest wisdom.'.. Charles Dickens
'The difference between England and the USA is that when we have a world eries we invite other countries to participate'.. John Cleese
'Assassination is the extreme form of censorship.'.. George Bernard Shaw
'There's nothing as ordinary as to try to be extraodinary'.. Noel Coward
'Football wasn't meant to be run by linesmen and air traffic control.'.. Tommy Docherty
'Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.'.. Oscar Wilde
'Money doesn't mind if we say it's evil, it goes from strength to strength. It's a fiction, an addiction, and a tacit conspiracy'.. Martin Amis
'Man has almost constant occasion for the help of his brethren, and it is in vain for him to expect it from their benevolence only.'.. Adam Smith
'Expectation is the root of all heartache.'.. William Shakespeare
'Why are women... so much more interesting to men than men are to women?'.. Virginia Woolf
'The important thing is to know how to take all things quietly.'.. Michael Faraday
'Evil is unspectacular and always human, and shares our bed and eats at our own table.'.. W H Auden
'A precedent embalms a principle.'.. Benjamin Disraeli
'The fashionable woman wears clothes. The clothes don't wear her.'.. Mary Quant
'Talk that does not end in any kind of action is better suppressed altogether.'.. Thomas Carlyle
'Friendship is certainly the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love'.. Jane Austen
'I used to think anyone doing anything weird was weird. Now I know that it is the people that call others weird that are weird'.. Paul McCartney
'Every war when it comes, or before it comes, is represented not as a war but as an act of self-defense against a homicidal maniac'.. George Orwell
'Happiness can exist only in acceptance.'.. George Orwell
'My goal is simple. It is a complete understanding of the universe, why it is as it is and why it exists at all.'.. Stephen Hawking
'Death is the only pure, beautiful conclusion of a great passion.'.. D H Lawrence
'Nothing that is worth knowing can be taught'.. Oscar Wilde
'He was a dreamer, a thinker, a speculative philosopher... or, as his wife would have it, an idiot.'.. Douglas Adams
'Melancholy, indeed, should be diverted by every means but drinking.'.. Samuel Johnson
'I used to desire many, many things, but now I have just one desire, and that's to get rid of all my other desires'.. John Cleese
'I've got a great ambition to die of exhaustion rather than boredom.'.. Thomas Carlyle
'The average Englishman goes 6 months without crying depending on the Football results'.. Frank Skinner
'The individual is not accountable to society for his actions in so far as these concern the interests of no person but himself.'.. John Stuart Mill
'Oh, what a shock. My career must be slipping. This is the first time I've been available to pick up an award.'.. Michael Caine