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'In all intellectual debates, both sides tend to be correct in what they affirm, and wrong in what they deny'.. John Stuart Mill
'Ideas shape the course of history.'.. John Maynard Keynes
'Everywhere in life, the true question is not what we gain, but what we do.'.. Thomas Carlyle
'A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of.'.. Jane Austen
'Every exit is an entry somewhere else.'.. Sir Tom Stoppard
'A play should give you something to think about. When I see a play and understand it the first time, then I know it can't be much good.'.. T S Eliot
'Life is wasted on the living'.. Douglas Adams
'Every man's memory is his private literature.'.. Aldous Huxley
'Be just before you are generous.'.. Richard Sheridan
'My face looks like a wedding-cake left out in the rain.'.. W H Auden
'Art, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere.'.. GK Chesterton
'My boat can sleep 6 people that know each other well or 1 prude'.. Peter Ustinov
'I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many unsigned poems, was a woman'.. Virginia Woolf
'Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children.'.. George Bernard Shaw
'I hate the word `hate`.'.. Peter Cushing
'You fall out of your Mothers womb, crawl across open country under fire and crawl in to your grave'.. Quentin Crisp
'Fill your paper with the breathings of your heart.'.. William Wordsworth
'Education begins the gentleman, but reading, good company and reflection must finish him.'.. John Locke
'Mad Dogs and Englishmen go out in the midday sun'.. Noel Coward
'It is the nature of all greatness not to be exact.'.. Edmund Burke
'A smile abroad is often a scowl at home.'.. Alfred Lord Tennyson
'The best car safety device is a rear-view mirror with a cop in it'.. Dudley Moore
'If you aren't in over your head, how do you know how tall you are?'.. T S Eliot
'Other nations use 'force'; we Britons alone use 'Might'.'.. Evelyn Waugh
'To wait idly is the worst of conditions.'.. Robert Falcon Scott
'My Father had a profound influence on me, he was a lunatic.'.. Spike Milligan
'An explanation of cause is not a justification by reason'.. C S Lewis
'It was a very simple team talk. All I used to say was: 'Whenever possible, give the ball to George'.. Matt Busby
'Great countries are those that produce great people.'.. Benjamin Disraeli
'All movements go too far.'.. Bertrand Russell