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'The trouble with British Rail passengers is that they think the railways are being run for their benefit'.. Jeremy Clarkson
'Childhood is measured out by sounds and smells and sights, before the dark hour of reason grows.'.. John Betjeman
'It takes little talent to see what lies under one's nose, a good deal to know in what direction to point that organ.'.. W H Auden
'The love of a mother is the veil of a softer light between the heart and the heavenly Father'.. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
'Compromise is the best and cheapest lawyer.'.. Robert Louis Stevenson
'In me the tiger sniffs the rose.'.. Siegfried Sassoon
'Full, saturated colours have an emotional significance I want to avoid.'.. Lucien Freud
'The golden rule is that there are no golden rules.'.. George Bernard Shaw
'An actor is something less than a man, while an actress is something more than a woman.'.. Richard Burton
'If there ever comes a day when we can't be together, keep me in your heart, I'll stay there forever.'.. A A Milne
'Boldness is a mask for fear, however great.'.. John Dryden
'I have taken more out of alcohol than alcohol has taken out of me.'.. Winston Churchill
'Familiar acts are beautiful through love.'.. Percy Bysshe Shelley
'If my critics saw me walking over the Thames they would say it was because I couldn't swim'.. Margaret Thatcher
'I feel monotony and death to be almost the same.'.. Charlotte Bronte
'The job of the artist is always to deepen the mystery.'.. Francis Bacon
'Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go.'.. Oscar Wilde
'I am prepared to go anywhere, provided it be forward.'.. David Livingstone
'Without humility there can be no humanity.'.. John Buchan
'We shape our buildings; thereafter they shape us.'.. Winston Churchill
'I've sometimes thought of marrying - and then I've thought again.'.. Noel Coward
'The world is a place on which England is to be found'.. GK Chesterton
'An agent is a person who is sore because an actor gets 90% of what they make.'.. Elton John
'I've done the most awful rubbish in order to have somewhere to go in the morning'.. Richard Burton
'Nothing is more obstinate than a fashionable consensus.'.. Margaret Thatcher
'Life is a comedy for those who think... and a tragedy for those who feel'.. Horace Walpole
'The worst enemy of life, freedom and the common decencies is total anarchy; their second worst enemy is total efficiency.'.. Aldous Huxley
'Acting is half shame, half glory. Shame at exhibiting yourself, glory when you can forget yoursel'.. John Gielgud
'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
'Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies.'.. John Donne