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'Saw a wedding in the church. It was strange to see what delight we married people have to see these poor fools decoyed into our condition.'.. Samuel Pepys
'Love is blind.'.. Geoffrey Chaucer
'Better to reign in hell than serve in heaven'.. John Milton
'Golf is so popular simply because it is the best game in the world at which to be bad.'.. A A Milne
'A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of.'.. Jane Austen
'Anyone can tell the truth, but only very few of us can make epigrams.'.. Somerset Maugham
'All mankind... being all equal and independent, no one ought to harm another in his life, health, liberty or possessions.'.. John Locke
'The trouble with political jokes is that they get elected'.. Tim Brooke-Taylor
'Do not try to live forever. You will not succeed.'.. George Bernard Shaw
'Agitation is the marshalling of the conscience of a nation to mold its laws.'.. Robert Peel
'My reputation grows with every failure.'.. George Bernard Shaw
'Every war when it comes, or before it comes, is represented not as a war but as an act of self-defense against a homicidal maniac'.. George Orwell
'If we don't end war, war will end us.'.. H G Wells
'A friend is a gift you give yourself.'.. Robert Louis Stevenson
'Comedy, we may say, is society protecting itself - with a smile.'.. J B Priestley
'Everyone seems to fear dying alone. I have never understood this - who wants to die and be polite at the same time'.. Quentin Crisp
'What though youth gave love and roses, Age still leaves us friends and wine.'.. Thomas More
'It's very hard to be a gentleman and a writer.'.. Somerset Maugham
'Modesty seldom resides in a breast that is not enriched with nobler virtues.'.. Oliver Goldsmith
'I wonder what fool it was that first invented kissing.'.. Jonathan Swift
'I never had lunch in Brighton without wanting to take a woman to bed in the afternoon'.. John Osborne
'Remember that you are an Englishman, and have consequently won first prize in the lottery of life.'.. Cecil Rhodes
'If a farmer fills his barn with grain, he gets mice. If he leaves it empty, he gets actors'.. Walter Scott
'What is reading, but silent conversation.'.. Charles Lamb
'We are a small country with a large sense of its own importance'.. David Walliams
'I sometimes think that God in creating man somewhat overestimated his ability.'.. Oscar Wilde
'When one is writing a novel in the first person, one must be that person.'.. Daphne du Maurier
'I am not aware that any community has a right to force another to be civilized.'.. John Stuart Mill
'A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty'.. Winston Churchill
'The creative habit is like a drug. The particular obsession changes, but the excitement, the thrill of your creation lasts'.. Henry Moore