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'Every new opinion, at its starting, is precisely in a minority of one.'.. Thomas Carlyle
'A clear and innocent conscience fears nothing.'.. Elizabeth I
'I am acquainted with no immaterial sensuality so delightful as good acting'.. Lord Byron
'If equal affection cannot be, let the more loving be me.'.. W H Auden
'People who say it cannot be done should not interrupt those who are doing it'.. George Bernard Shaw
'One of the disadvantages of wine is that it makes a man mistake words for thoughts.'.. Samuel Johnson
'I should like to say that good batsman are born, not made; but my long experience comes up before me, and tells me that it is not so.'.. W G Grace
'In politics, there is no use looking beyond the next fortnight.'.. Joseph Chamberlain
'As love without esteem is capricious and volatile; esteem without love is languid and cold.'.. Jonathan Swift
'I like to give my inhibitions a bath now and then.'.. Oliver Reed
'Remember that you are an Englishman, and have consequently won first prize in the lottery of life.'.. Cecil Rhodes
'Satire is a sort of glass, wherein beholders do generally discover everybody's face but their own.'.. Jonathan Swift
'If Galileo had said in verse that the world moved, the inquisition might have let him alone'.. Thomas Hardy
'Make yourself an honest man, and then you may be sure there is one less rascal in the world'.. Thomas Carlyle
'Successful investing is anticipating the anticipations of others.'.. John Maynard Keynes
'No man was ever so completely skilled in the conduct of life, as not to receive new information from age and experience.'.. Jonathan Swift
'Coincidences are spiritual puns.'.. GK Chesterton
'It is my settled opinion that no one is attracted to a political career in the first place unless he is socially or emotionally crippled'.. Auberon Waugh
'In Italy the whole country is a theatre and the worst actors are on the stage'.. George Bernard Shaw
'Deprivation is for me what daffodils were for Wordsworth.'.. Philip Larkin
'To get a job where the only thing you have to do in your career is to make people laugh-well, it's the best job in the world'.. Ronnie Barker
'A man never tells you anything until you contradict him.'.. George Bernard Shaw
'The world is like a grand staircase, some are going up and some are going down.'.. Samuel Johnson
'Good sense about trivialities is better than nonsense about things that matter'.. Max Beerbohm
'Oh, what a shock. My career must be slipping. This is the first time I've been available to pick up an award.'.. Michael Caine
'Laws are like cobwebs, which may catch small flies, but let wasps and hornets break through'.. Jonathan Swift
'Being powerful is like being a lady. If you have to tell people you are, you aren't'.. Margaret Thatcher
'A man may be so much of everything that he is nothing of anything.'.. Samuel Johnson
'The difference between a bad artist and a good one is: the bad artist seems to copy a great deal; the good one really does'.. William Blake
'Better not be at all than not be noble.'.. Alfred Lord Tennyson