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'When you've seen a nude infant doing a backward somersault you know why clothing exists'.. Stephen Fry
'All that a husband or wife really wants is to be pitied a little, praised a little, and appreciated a little'.. Oliver Goldsmith
'When I make a joke I always laugh quickly so there is no doubt about it'.. Somerset Maugham
'I thought coq au vin was love in a lorry'.. Victoria Wood
'To see a world in a grain of sand and heaven in a wild flower Hold infinity in the palms of your hand and eternity in an hour'.. William Blake
'Pleasure and action make the hours seem short.'.. William Shakespeare
'I have frequently gained my first real insight into the character of parents by studying their children'.. Arthur Conan Doyle
'My character and good name are in my own keeping. Life with disgrace is dreadful. A glorious death is to be envied'.. Horatio Nelson
'Vices are sometimes only virtues carried to excess!'.. Charles Dickens
'Nothing, like something, happens anywhere.'.. Philip Larkin
'Death is no different whined at than withstood.'.. Philip Larkin
'If we do not maintain justice, justice will not maintain us.'.. Sir Francis Bacon
'Writing is an antidote for loneliness.'.. Steven Berkoff
'He that will enjoy the brightness of sunshine, must quit the coolness of the shade'.. Samuel Johnson
'Difficulties are just things to overcome'.. Ernest Shackleton
'Man is nature's sole mistake.'.. W S Gilbert
'If someone's dumb enough to offer me a million dollars to make a picture, I'm certainly not dumb enough to turn it down.'.. Elizabeth Taylor
'It has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all the others that have been tried'.. Winston Churchill
'Make yourself an honest man, and then you may be sure there is one less rascal in the world'.. Thomas Carlyle
'The most romantic, if not the most beautiful, place in Scotland'.. Walter Scott
'Discretion is the perfection of reason, and a guide to us in all the duties of life.'.. Walter Scott
'Man's silence is wonderful to listen to.'.. Thomas Hardy
'It is easy to answer the ultimate questions - it saves you bothering with the immediate ones.'.. John Osborne
'Love is 2 minutes and 52 seconds of squelching noises'.. John Lydon (Johnny Rotten)
'I am not young enough to know everything.'.. Oscar Wilde
'The disease which inflicts bureaucracy and what they usually die from is routine'.. John Stuart Mill
'The pollen count, now that’s a difficult job. Especially if you’ve got hay fever'.. Milton Jones
'Don't clap too hard - it's a very old building.'.. John Osborne
'If you had a face like mine, you'd punch me right on the nose, and I'm just the fella to do it.'.. Stan Laurel
'In our time political speech and writing are largely the defense of the indefensible'.. George Orwell