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'I do detest everything which is not perfectly mutual.'.. Lord Byron
'In general, pride is at the bottom of all great mistakes.'.. John Ruskin
'The worst enemy of life, freedom and the common decencies is total anarchy; their second worst enemy is total efficiency.'.. Aldous Huxley
'Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.'.. Bertrand Russell
'He who seeks rest finds boredom. He who seeks work finds rest.'.. Dylan Thomas
'Business today consists in persuading crowds.'.. T S Eliot
'No man can be an agnostic who has a sense of humour.'.. E M Forster
'Conventionality is not morality.'.. Charlotte Bronte
'Catholics are just protestants protesting against protestantism'.. D H Lawrence
'My opinion is that a poet should express the emotion of all the ages and the thought of his own.'.. Thomas Hardy
'Art has to move you and design does not, unless it's a good design for a bus.'.. David Hockney
'A tavern is a place where madness is sold by the bottle.'.. Jonathan Swift
'Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard are sweeter.'.. John Keats
'What is easy is seldom excellent.'.. Samuel Johnson
'Always live in the ugliest house on the street - then you don't have to look at it.'.. David Hockney
'English consists entirely of foreign words pronounced wrongly'.. Bob Hope
'The past is a great place and I don't want to erase it or to regret it, but I don't want to be its prisoner either'.. Mick Jagger
'It was a very simple team talk. All I used to say was: 'Whenever possible, give the ball to George'.. Matt Busby
'Make all you can, save all you can, give all you can.'.. John Wesley
'It is very good advice to believe only what an artist does, rather than what he says about his work.'.. David Hockney
'In English villages you turn over a stone and never know what might creep out'.. Agatha Christie
'Divorce is a game played by lawyers.'.. Cary Grant
'A man, as a general rule, owes very little to what he is born with - a man is what he makes of himself'.. Alexander Graham Bell
'I sometimes feel that more lousy dishes are presented under the banner of pate than any other.'.. Sir Kingsley Amis
'If I could I would always work in silence and obscurity, and let my efforts be known by their results.'.. Emily Bronte
'Music is the best means we have of digesting time.'.. W H Auden
'Bexhill on Sea is a peck on the cheek whilst Hastings is a lolloping tongue down the throat'.. Jo Brand
'It is obvious that we can no more explain a passion to a person who has never experienced it than we can explain light to the blind.'.. T S Eliot
'Architecture aims at Eternity.'.. Christopher Wren
'No legacy is so rich as honesty.'.. William Shakespeare