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'We have always found the Irish a bit odd. They refuse to be English.'.. Winston Churchill
'How little do they see what is, who frame their hasty judgments upon that which seems'.. Robert Southey
'It is not reasonable that those who gamble with men's lives should not stake their own.'.. H G Wells
'He travels best that knows when to return.'.. Thomas More
'Nonsense and beauty have close connections.'.. E M Forster
'If you can't annoy somebody, there's little point in writing.'.. Sir Kingsley Amis
'No one rises so high as he who knows not whither he is going.'.. Oliver Cromwell
'The poetry of the earth is never dead.'.. John Keats
'The main object of religion is not to get a man into heaven, but to get heaven into him'.. Thomas Hardy
'Great discoveries and improvements invariably involve the cooperation of many minds'.. Alexander Graham Bell
'Doubt, of whatever kind, can be ended by action alone.'.. Thomas Carlyle
'The toilets at a local police station have been stolen. Police say they have nothing to go on'.. Ronnie Barker
'You know, somebody actually complimented me on my driving today. They left a little note on the windscreen, it said 'Parking Fine.''.. Tommy Cooper
'Society needs to condemn a little more and understand a little less.'.. John Major
'The first condition of progress is the removal of censorship.'.. George Bernard Shaw
'There is a wisdom of the head, and a wisdom of the heart.'.. Charles Dickens
'Power without principle is barren, but principle without power is futile'.. Tony Blair
'I found longer races boring. I found the mile just perfect.'.. Roger Bannister
'Borrow trouble for yourself, if that's your nature, but don't lend it to your neighbours'.. Rudyard Kipling
'History is written by the victors.'.. Winston Churchill
'You want to be foretold the weather? it is bad enough when it comes without having the misery of knowing about it beforehand'.. Jerome K Jerome
'Nothing puzzles me more than the time and space; and yet nothing troubles me less.'.. Charles Lamb
'It's the one thing I actively don't like: just being recognized'.. Ricky Gervais
'I believe in getting in to hot water. It keeps you clean'.. GK Chesterton
'America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between'.. Oscar Wilde
'Eating words has never given me indigestion.'.. Winston Churchill
'I went into the business for the money, and the art grew out of it. If people are disillusioned by that remark, I can't help it. It's the truth.'.. Charlie Chaplin
'Consequences are unpitying.'.. George Eliot
'Marriage is a very good thing, but I think it's a mistake to make a habit out of it.'.. Somerset Maugham
'Militant feminists, I take my hat off to them. They don't like that'.. Milton Jones