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Famous British Quotes
'Our own heart, and not other men's opinions form our true honor.'.. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
'People say it gets better but it doesn't. It just gets different, that's all.'.. Maggie Smith
'The aim of a joke is not to degrade the human being, but to remind him that he is already degraded'.. George Orwell
'Lies are sufficient to breed opinion, and opinion brings on substance'.. Sir Francis Bacon
'Laziness has become the chief characteristic of journalism, displacing incompetence.'.. Sir Kingsley Amis
'One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes a revolution in order to establish a dictatorship'.. George Orwell
'Long run is a misleading guide to current affairs. In the long run we are all dead.'.. John Maynard Keynes
'Summer has set in with its usual severity'.. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
'An orgy looks particularly alluring seen through the mists of righteous indignation'.. Malcolm Muggeridge
'Tact is the art of making a point without making an enemy.'.. Isaac Newton
'One of the things being in politics has taught me is that men are not a reasoned or reasonable sex'.. Margaret Thatcher
'I am humble enough to know I have made mistakes but politically astute enough to know that I have forgotten what they are'.. Michael Heseltine
'There are no such things as Flowers there are only gladdened Leaves.'.. John Ruskin
'The greatest good you can do for another is not just to share your riches but to reveal to him his own.'.. Benjamin Disraeli
'Happy the people whose annals are vacant.'.. Thomas Carlyle
'He who knows only his own side of the case knows little of that.'.. John Stuart Mill
'Love is staying up all night with a sick child - or a healthy adult.'.. David Frost
'There is no me. I do not exist. There used to be a me but I had it surgically removed'.. Peter Sellers
'But the answer to how to live is to stop thinking about it. And just to live. But you're doing that anyway. However you intellectualise it, you still just live.'.. Damien Hirst
'Exhilaration is that feeling you get just after a great idea hits you, and just before you realize what`s wrong with it.'.. Rex Harrison
'If I wasnt an actor I would probably be a psychopath'.. Terence Stamp
'My neighbour asked if he could use my lawnmower and I told him of course he could, so long as he didn't take it out of my garden.'.. Eric Morecambe
'Now that I know what I want, I don't have to hold on to it quite so much.'.. Lucien Freud
'Every man desires to live long, but no man wishes to be old.'.. Jonathan Swift
'I think that by ignoring the show you're ignoring the audience who put you there'.. Simon Cowell
'Childhood is measured out by sounds and smells and sights, before the dark hour of reason grows.'.. John Betjeman
'I am not struck so much by the diversity of testimony as by the many-sidedness of truth.'.. Stanley Baldwin
'Better three hours too soon than a minute too late.'.. William Shakespeare
'Without frugality none can be rich, and with it very few would be poor.'.. Samuel Johnson
'In modern business it is not the crook who is to be feared most, it is the honest man who doesn't know what he is doing'.. William Wordsworth