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Famous British Quotes
'What is reading, but silent conversation.'.. Charles Lamb
'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 a man's wit be wandering, let him study the mathematics.'.. Sir Francis Bacon
'A woman uses her intelligence to find reasons to support her intuition'.. GK Chesterton
'I don't pretend to understand the Universe - it's a great deal bigger than I am.'.. Thomas Carlyle
'Happy the people whose annals are vacant.'.. Thomas Carlyle
'When I was a nurse my favourite assignment was the anorexia ward. I sometimes had 17 dinners'.. Jo Brand
'I would much prefer to be a judge than a coal miner because of the absence of falling coal'.. Peter Cook
'There is no education like adversity.'.. Benjamin Disraeli
'No bird soars too high if he soars with his own wings.'.. William Blake
'Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past'.. George Orwell
'Anybody who's been married to a man for forty odd years knows he's all talk'.. Michael Parkinson
'Bad humor is an evasion of reality; good humor is an acceptance of it.'.. Malcolm Muggeridge
'The nation that secures control of the air will ultimately control the world.'.. Alexander Graham Bell
'There are a terrible lot of lies going about the world, and the worst of it is that half of them are true.'.. Winston Churchill
'When I am dead, I hope it may be said: His sins were scarlet, but his books were read'.. Hilaire Belloc
'My Father had a profound influence on me, he was a lunatic.'.. Spike Milligan
'At the side of the everlasting why, is a yes, and a yes, and a yes.'.. E M Forster
'There are no such things as Flowers there are only gladdened Leaves.'.. John Ruskin
'No brilliance is needed in the law. Nothing but common sense, and relatively clean finger nails.'.. Sir John Mortimer
'The remedy is worse than the disease.'.. Sir Francis Bacon
'I think people should be free to engage in any sexual practices they choose; they should draw the line at goats though.'.. Elton John
'History will see advertising as one of the real evil things of our time. It is stimulating people constantly to want things, want this, want that.'.. Malcolm Muggeridge
'I never knew a man come to greatness or eminence who lay abed late in the morning.'.. Jonathan Swift
'Subtlety may deceive you; integrity never will.'.. Oliver Cromwell
'Think globally, act locally.'.. Paul McCartney
'One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes a revolution in order to establish a dictatorship'.. George Orwell
'Each generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it'.. George Orwell
'The purpose of getting power is to be able to give it away'.. Aneurin Bevan
'A dirty joke is a sort of mental rebellion.'.. George Orwell