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'An agent is a person who is sore because an actor gets 90% of what they make.'.. Elton John
'He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches.'.. George Bernard Shaw
'A precedent embalms a principle.'.. Benjamin Disraeli
'Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together.'.. George Eliot
'I have often thought what a melancholy world this would be without children, and what an inhuman world without the aged'.. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
'Everyone has his day and some days last longer than others.'.. Winston Churchill
'It's very hard to be a gentleman and a writer.'.. Somerset Maugham
'Give the enemy not only a road for flight, but also a means of defending it.'.. Thomas Hardy
'A sure cure for seasickness is to sit under a tree.'.. Spike Milligan
'There is no instinct like that of the heart.'.. Lord Byron
'Dancing is the poetry of the foot.'.. John Dryden
'Soldiers are citizens of death's grey land, drawing no dividend from time's tomorrows'.. Siegfried Sassoon
'It is the mark of a truly intelligent person to be moved by statistics'.. George Bernard Shaw
'The delicate balance between modesty and conceit is popularity.'.. Max Beerbohm
'I think in terms of the day's resolutions, not the years'.'.. Henry Moore
'I have a memory like an elephant. In fact, elephants often consult me.'.. Noel Coward
'Show me the man you honor, and I will know what kind of man you are.'.. Thomas Carlyle
'Love in all eight tones and all five semitones of the word's full octave.'.. Stephen Fry
'Dancing is a perpendicular expression of a horizontal desire.'.. George Bernard Shaw
'The British tourist is always happy abroad as long as the natives are waiters'.. Robert Morley
'I'm a holy man minus the holiness.'.. E M Forster
'A man may be so much of everything that he is nothing of anything.'.. Samuel Johnson
'It is so pleasant to come across people more stupid than ourselves. We love them at once for being so'.. Jerome K Jerome
'People say it gets better but it doesn't. It just gets different, that's all.'.. Maggie Smith
'I like not only to be loved, but to be told I am loved.'.. George Eliot
'Keep your faith in God, but keep your powder dry.'.. Oliver Cromwell
'I think that making love is the best form of exercise.'.. Cary Grant
'You can give without loving, but you can never love without giving.'.. Robert Louis Stevenson
'If you are cast in a different mould to the majority, it is no merit of yours: Nature did it.'.. Charlotte Bronte
'Long hair is an unpardonable offense which should be punishable by death.'.. Morrissey