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'A person may cause evil to others not only by his actions but by his inaction'.. John Stuart Mill
'The worst enemy of life, freedom and the common decencies is total anarchy; their second worst enemy is total efficiency.'.. Aldous Huxley
'There will always be an England even if its in Hollywood'.. Bob Hope
'We pay when old for the excesses of youth.'.. J B Priestley
'I thought I'd begin by reading a poem by Shakespeare, but then I thought, why should I? He never reads any of mine.'.. Spike Milligan
'What is reading, but silent conversation.'.. Charles Lamb
'Don't talk to me about a man's being able to talk sense; everyone can talk sense. Can he talk nonsense?'.. William Pitt (The Younger)
'There but for the grace of God goes God'.. Winston Churchill
'All our discontents about what we want appeared to spring from the want of thankfulness for what we have.'.. Daniel Defoe
'If you fell down yesterday, stand up today.'.. H G Wells
'Politics is the ability to foretell what is going to happen tomorrow, next week, next month and next year. And to have the ability afterwards to explain why it didn't happen.'.. Winston Churchill
'Advertising is legalized lying.'.. H G Wells
'We are all here on earth to help others; what on earth the others are here for I don't know.'.. W H Auden
'A gentleman is one who never hurts anyone's feelings unintentionally'.. Oscar Wilde
'There seem to me to be very few facts, at least ascertainable facts, in politics'.. Robert Peel
'The Beduin could not look for God within him: he was too sure that he was within God.'.. T E Lawrence
'No distance of place or lapse of time can lessen the friendship of those who are thoroughly persuaded of each other's worth'.. Robert Southey
'One is certain of nothing but the truth of one's own emotions.'.. E M Forster
'There is nothing constant in this world but inconsistency.'.. Jonathan Swift
'They can't censor the gleam in my eye.'.. Charles Laughton
'Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.'.. T S Eliot
'Cast is everything.'.. Ridley Scott
'I doubt whether classical education ever has been or can be successfully carried out without corporal punishment'.. George Orwell
'He that undervalues himself will undervalue others, and he that undervalues others will oppress them'.. Samuel Johnson
'Criticism, that fine flower of personal expression in the garden of letters'.. Joseph Conrad
'All men are liable to error; and most men are, in many points, by passion or interest, under temptation to it.'.. John Locke
'animals have the vowel sounds; man only can utter consonants'.. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
'I can only go one way. I've not got a reverse gear.'.. Tony Blair
'We started off trying to set up a small anarchist community, but people wouldn't obey the rules.'.. Alan Bennett
'A poet is a professional maker of verbal objects.'.. W H Auden