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February 2012: Leisure, Luxury and Retail Heaven in Leeds

Those who don’t know the thriving city of Leeds – the UK’s biggest legal and financial hub outside London – may still have a very ...More
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'Golf is a day spent in a round of strenuous idleness.'.. William Wordsworth

'I do not believe in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.'.. Thomas Carlyle

'Rolf Harris is a difficult man to hate but that shouldnt stop us trying'.. A A Gill

'My favorite sexual fantasy is smearing my body in chocolate and being left alone in a room to eat it'.. Jo Brand

'The limits of the possible can only be defined by going beyond them into the impossible.'.. Arthur C Clarke

'I sometimes think that God in creating man somewhat overestimated his ability.'.. Oscar Wilde

'To succeed with the opposite sex, tell her you're impotent. She can't wait to disprove it.'.. Cary Grant

'Work is the curse of the drinking classes.'.. Oscar Wilde

'Human blunders usually do more to shape history than human wickedness.'.. A J P Taylor

'I do not want a husband who honours me as a queen, if he does not love me as a woman.'.. Elizabeth I

'I'm not as thrilled with myself as I used to be.'.. Oliver Reed

'I like not only to be loved, but to be told I am loved.'.. George Eliot

'You know the worst thing about oral sex? The view.'.. Maureen Lipman

'If we open a quarrel between past and present, we shall find that we have lost the future'.. Winston Churchill

'Live as long as you may, the first twenty years are the longest half of your life.'.. Robert Southey

'Papa, potatoes, poultry, prunes and prism, are all very good words for the lips.'.. Charles Dickens

'It is widely held that too much wine will dull a man's desire. Indeed it will in a dull man'.. John Osborne

'It takes courage to make a fool of yourself'.. Charlie Chaplin

'Youth smiles without any reason. It is one of its chiefest charms.'.. Thomas Gray

'A critic is a man who knows the way but can't drive the car.'.. Kenneth Tynan

'Well may your heart believe the truths I tell; 'Tis virtue makes the bliss, where'er we dwell.'.. Wilkie Collins

'To forget oneself is to be happy.'.. Robert Louis Stevenson

'Happiness can exist only in acceptance.'.. George Orwell

'One sometimes finds what one is not looking for.'.. Alexander Fleming

'History develops, art stands still.'.. E M Forster

'We always have been, we are, and I hope that we always will be detested in France'.. Duke of Wellington

'A good thing never ends.'.. Mick Jagger

'It is the nature of all greatness not to be exact.'.. Edmund Burke

'Animals are my friends... and I don't eat my friends.'.. George Bernard Shaw

'If God did not intend for us to eat animals, then why did he make them out of meat?'.. John Cleese

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