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Famous British Quotes
'All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others'.. George Orwell
'The best car safety device is a rear-view mirror with a cop in it'.. Dudley Moore
'A good book is the precious lifeblood of a master spirit.'.. John Milton
'How little do they see what is, who frame their hasty judgments upon that which seems'.. Robert Southey
'He was a dreamer, a thinker, a speculative philosopher... or, as his wife would have it, an idiot.'.. Douglas Adams
'Laws are like cobwebs, which may catch small flies, but let wasps and hornets break through'.. Jonathan Swift
'History develops, art stands still.'.. E M Forster
'Wives are like gilt-edged stocks. The more you have, the greater your dividends.'.. Rex Harrison
'When I make a joke I always laugh quickly so there is no doubt about it'.. Somerset Maugham
'It is better to live rich than to die rich.'.. Samuel Johnson
'He would make a lovely corpse.'.. Charles Dickens
'I'll give you my opinion of the human race in a nutshell... their heart's in the right place, but their head is a thoroughly inefficient organ.'.. Somerset Maugham
'Our patience will achieve more than our force.'.. Edmund Burke
'Life is easy to chronicle, but bewildering to practice.'.. E M Forster
'An unexciting truth may be eclipsed by a thrilling lie.'.. Aldous Huxley
'The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age, which mean never losing your enthusiasm.'.. Aldous Huxley
'Men of my age live in a state of continual desperation.'.. Vita Sackville-West
'I don't believe that the public knows what it wants; this is the conclusion that I have drawn from my career.'.. Charlie Chaplin
'Parliament must not be told a direct untruth, but it's quite possible to allow them to mislead themselves'.. Norman Tebbit
'Asparagus inspires gentle thoughts.'.. Charles Lamb
'The longer you look at an object, the more abstract it becomes, and, ironically, the more real.'.. Lucien Freud
'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
'Honour sinks where commerce long prevails.'.. Oliver Goldsmith
'What really matters is what you do with what you have.'.. H G Wells
'The avoidance of taxes is the only intellectual pursuit that still carries any reward'.. John Maynard Keynes
'A lover without indiscretion is no lover at all.'.. Thomas Hardy
'Nature, to be commanded, must be obeyed.'.. Sir Francis Bacon
'Humour is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.'.. Virginia Woolf
'My favorite sexual fantasy is smearing my body in chocolate and being left alone in a room to eat it'.. Jo Brand
'We've discovered that the less we do, the more money we make.'.. Eric Idle