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Famous British Quotes
'The best part of a holiday is not so much to be resting yourself as to see all the other fellows busy working'.. Kenneth Grahame
'Discretion is the perfection of reason, and a guide to us in all the duties of life.'.. Walter Scott
'When you choose your friends, don't be short-changed by choosing personality over character.'.. Somerset Maugham
'General principles... are to the facts as the root and sap of a tree are to its leaves'.. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
'Economic advance is not the same thing as human progress'.. John Clapham
'The world is a stage, but the play is badly cast.'.. Oscar Wilde
'A friend is a gift you give yourself.'.. Robert Louis Stevenson
'A man never tells you anything until you contradict him.'.. George Bernard Shaw
'An author who speaks about their own books is almost as bad as a mother who speaks about her own children.'.. Benjamin Disraeli
'A difference of taste in jokes is a great strain on the affections.'.. George Eliot
'Knowledge is power.'.. Sir Francis Bacon
'Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.'.. John Locke
'Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable'.. Sir Francis Bacon
'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
'I don't pretend to understand the Universe - it's a great deal bigger than I am.'.. Thomas Carlyle
'Love works a different way in different minds, the fool it enlightens and the wise it blinds'.. John Dryden
'Someone told me that each equation I included in the book would halve the sales.'.. Stephen Hawking
'Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past'.. George Orwell
'Man's love is of man's life a part; it is a woman's whole existence. In her first passion, a woman loves her lover, in all the others all she loves is love.'.. Lord Byron
'I work for a Government I despise for ends I think criminal.'.. John Maynard Keynes
'Authority has every reason to fear the skeptic, for authority can rarely survive in the face of doubt'.. Vita Sackville-West
'Christianity will go. It will vanish and shrink. I needn't argue with that; I'm right and I will be proved right.'.. John Lennon
'To me there has never been a higher source of earthly honor or distinction than that connected with advances in science'.. Isaac Newton
'Boldness is a mask for fear, however great.'.. John Dryden
'Deep-versed in books and shallow in himself.'.. John Milton
'The greatest problem about old age is the fear that it may go on too long.'.. A J P Taylor
'Our main business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand'.. Thomas Carlyle
'Power is not a means, it is an end'.. George Orwell
'My definition of an intellectual is someone who can listen to the William Tell Overture without thinking of the Lone Ranger.'.. Billy Connolly
'Don't accept the old order. Get rid of it.'.. John Lydon (Johnny Rotten)