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'Good and bad men are less than they seem.'.. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
'An actor is something less than a man, while an actress is something more than a woman.'.. Richard Burton
'Heresies are experiments in man's unsatisfied search for truth.'.. H G Wells
'I thought coq au vin was love in a lorry'.. Victoria Wood
'I exist in a state of almost perpetual hysteria.'.. Sting
'I do detest everything which is not perfectly mutual.'.. Lord Byron
'Courage is found in unlikely places.'.. J R R Tolkien
'Our patience will achieve more than our force.'.. Edmund Burke
'England is not all the world.'.. Mary, Queen of Scots
'Pleasure is none, if not diversified.'.. John Donne
'The greatest man is he who forms the taste of a nation; the next greatest is he who corrupts it.'.. Joshua Reynolds
'Cowards die many times before their deaths; the valiant never taste of death but once'.. William Shakespeare
'Great literature should do some good to the reader: must quicken his perception though dull, and sharpen his discrimination though blunt, and mellow the rawness of his personal opinions'.. A E Housman
'If a man's wit be wandering, let him study the mathematics.'.. Sir Francis Bacon
'The more highly public life is organized the lower does its morality sink'.. E M Forster
'Golf is a day spent in a round of strenuous idleness.'.. William Wordsworth
'The silliest woman can manage a clever man; but it needs a very clever woman to manage a fool.'.. Rudyard Kipling
'It is widely held that too much wine will dull a man's desire. Indeed it will in a dull man'.. John Osborne
'If the best man's faults were written on his forehead, he would draw his hat over his eyes.'.. Thomas Gray
'Everything's complicated, even those things that seem flat in their bleakness or sadness'.. Nick Hornby
'Filth and old age, I'm sure you will agree, are powerful wardens upon chastity.'.. Geoffrey Chaucer
'If you've got a big mouth and you're controversial, you're going to get attention.'.. Simon Cowell
'Every man at the bottom of his heart believes that he is a born detective.'.. John Buchan
'A man that hoards up riches and enjoys them not, is like an ass that carries gold and eats thistles'.. Richard Burton
'Who overcomes by force, hath overcome but half his foe.'.. John Milton
'I became one of the Stately Homos of England'.. Quentin Crisp
'The individual is not accountable to society for his actions in so far as these concern the interests of no person but himself.'.. John Stuart Mill
'Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal.'.. T S Eliot
'Money is like manure, of very little use except it be spread.'.. Sir Francis Bacon
'It is very good advice to believe only what an artist does, rather than what he says about his work.'.. David Hockney