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50 Wise And Witty Quotes From Your Favorite British Boys

The difference between doing something and not doing something is doing something. 
Holly Riordan
August 3, 2016
“That’s the other thing I learned that day, that the truth, however shocking or uncomfortable, in the end leads to liberation and dignity.”
— Ricky Gervais, Best Life
Tagged: Truth, dignity, Liberation
“Just because you're offended, doesn't mean you're right.”
— Ricky Gervais, 1000 Amazing Quotes
Tagged: offended, Right And Wrong, controversial
“The best advice I've ever received is, 'No one else knows what they're doing either.'”
— Ricky Gervais, Words from the Wise: Over 6,000 of the Smartest Things Ever Said
Tagged: Advice, Life, Confusion
“It’s a strange myth that atheists have nothing to live for. It’s the opposite. We have nothing to die for. We have everything to live for.”
— Ricky Gervais, Outsoaring the Shadow: Atheistic thoughts on life and death
Tagged: atheism, Religion, Death, Life
“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, My Booky Wook
Tagged: Vegetarian, Drugs, Drug Addiction
“We all need something to help us unwind at the end of the day. You might have a glass of wine, or a joint, or a big delicious blob of heroin to silence your silly brainbox of its witterings but there has to be some form of punctuation, or life just seems utterly relentless.”
— Russell Brand, My Booky Wook: A Memoir of Sex, Drugs, and Stand-Up
Tagged: Relaxation, Life, Drugs
“I want to change the world, and do something valuable and beautiful. I want people to remember me before I'm dead, and then more afterwards.”
— Russell Brand, My Booky Wook
Tagged: Change, Value, beauty, Meaning
“Say I feel all sad and self-indulgent, then get stung by a wasp, my misery feels quite abstract and I long just to be in spiritual pain once more. Damn you tiny assassin, clad in yellow and black, how I crave my former innocence where melancholy was my only trial.”
— Russell Brand, Articles of Faith
Tagged: Sadness, Pain, Spiritual
“To this day, I feel a fierce warmth for women that have the same disregard for the social conventions of sexual protocol as I do. I love it when I meet a woman and her sexuality is dancing across her face, so it's apparent that all we need to do is nod and find a cupboard.”
— Russell Brand, My Booky Wook
Tagged: Sex, sexuality, Women
“Two languages in one brain? No one can live at that speed!”
— Eddie Izzard, Definite Article
Tagged: bilingual, Language, Intelligence
“Books are no more threatened by Kindle than stairs by elevators.”
— Stephen Fry, The Biteback Dictionary of Humorous Literary Quotations
Tagged: Books, Reading, kindle, ebooks
“No adolescent ever wants to be understood, which is why they complain about being misunderstood all the time.”
— Stephen Fry, Moab Is My Washpot
Tagged: teenagers, Misunderstood, complaints
“I will defend the absolute value of Mozart over Miley Cyrus, of course I will, but we should be wary of false dichotomies. You do not have to choose between one or the other. You can have both.”
— Stephen Fry, The Fry Chronicles
Tagged: Music, Choices, miley cyrus, Mozart
“It is the useless things that make life worth living and that make life dangerous too: wine, love, art, beauty. Without them life is safe, but not worth bothering with.”
— Stephen Fry, Moab Is My Washpot
Tagged: Love, Art, beauty, Life
“Education is the sum of what students teach each other between lectures and seminars.”
— Stephen Fry, We Are Such Stuff As Dreams Are Made On
Tagged: Education, Learning, Students
“Sex without smiling is as sickly and as base as vodka and tonic without ice.”
— Stephen Fry, Moab Is My Washpot
Tagged: Sex, smiling, vodka, Alcohol
“My life amounts to no more than one drop in a limitless ocean. Yet what is any ocean, but a multitude of drops?”
— David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas
Tagged: Life, Meaning, Universe
“Books don't offer real escape, but they can stop a mind scratching itself raw.”
— David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas
Tagged: Books, Reading, Escape
“You say you're 'depressed.' All I see is resilience. You are allowed to feel messed up and inside out. It doesn't mean you're defective. It just means you're human.”
— David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas
Tagged: Depression, human, Resilience
“We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love.”
— David Mitchell, The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet
Tagged: Hate, Love, Religion
“Murderers! Stop murdering. Everyone will die eventually. Just sit down and be patient.”
— Russell Brand, My Booky Wook
Tagged: Death, Murder, Patience
“I missed him, of course, but sometimes close friendships have a tidal beat that pulls you towards different shores though the ocean that connects you remains.”
— Russell Brand, Booky Wook 2: This Time It's Personal
Tagged: Missing, Friendship, Distance
“The difference between doing something and not doing something is doing something.”
— James Corden, May I Have Your Attention, Please?: The Autobiography
Tagged: Action, differences
“It doesn't help anyone to judge their happiness or career by looking at where others may or may not be. Dad said it best: 'All the time you're looking left and right at other people, you're neglecting what's in front of you. If you focus on looking straight ahead, you can take the odd glance at the future.' He's got a way of saying things sometimes that just puts everything into perspective.”
— James Corden, May I Have Your Attention, Please?: The Autobiography
Tagged: Perspective, Happiness, comparison
“It's strange how things seem to come full circle. You know what I mean? I'm sure you do. The way your life seems to drift along with no set path, then something good happens to you and you can trace the line that brought you there back to a specific disappointment or rejection you suffered in the past. It's nice that things can level out that way.”
— James Corden, May I Have Your Attention Please?
Tagged: full circle, Life, Disappointment, Rejection
“I think honesty is the most heroic quality one can aspire to.”
— Daniel Radcliffe, Naturalopy: The Complete Reference: Naturalopy
Tagged: Honesty, Hero, Personality
“I've never been one of the cool people at school, but then again, I don't get the people who are cool. It's not that I don't like them, it's just that they don't interest me.”
— Daniel Radcliffe, Daniel Radcliffe: No Ordinary Wizard
Tagged: School, cool, Reputation
“You never know what's around the corner. It could be everything. Or it could be nothing. You keep putting one foot in front of the other, and then one day you look back and you've climbed a mountain.”
— Tom Hiddleston, The Tom Hiddleston Handbook
Tagged: Future, Opportunity, risks
“What's my guilty pleasure? The thing is, I never feel guilty about pleasures.”
— Tom Hiddleston, Chasing Shadows
Tagged: guilty pleasure, Guilt, Happiness
“I don't think anyone, until their soul leaves their body, is past the point of no return.”
— Tom Hiddleston, The Tom Hiddleston Handbook
Tagged: Soul, Change, Hope