Winston Churchill
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'We wander for distraction, but we travel for fulfillment.'.. Hilaire Belloc

'Memorial services are the cocktail parties of the geriatric set.'.. Harold Macmillan

'Poverty of course is no disgrace, but it is damned annoying.'.. William Pitt (The Younger)

'The higher the building the lower the morals.'.. Noel Coward

'The truth that is suppressed by friends is the readiest weapon of the enemy.'.. Robert Louis Stevenson

'I do not want a husband who honours me as a queen, if he does not love me as a woman.'.. Elizabeth I

'People to whom nothing has ever happened cannot understand the unimportance of events.'.. T S Eliot

'Wives are like gilt-edged stocks. The more you have, the greater your dividends.'.. Rex Harrison

'Long hair is an unpardonable offense which should be punishable by death.'.. Morrissey

'A resolution to avoid an evil is seldom framed till the evil is so far advanced as to make avoidance impossible'.. Thomas Hardy

'I am playing all the right notes, but not necessarily in the right order.'.. Eric Morecambe

'No man is good enough to be another's master.'.. William Morris

'Never trust a man, who when left alone with a tea cosey... Doesn't try it on.'.. Billy Connolly

'If you set out to be liked, you would be prepared to compromise on anything at any time, and you would achieve nothing'.. Margaret Thatcher

'The first condition of understanding a foreign country is to smell it.'.. Rudyard Kipling

'Do not try to live forever. You will not succeed.'.. George Bernard Shaw

'It is a cliche that most cliches are true, but then like most cliches, that cliche is untrue'.. Stephen Fry

'Do what you haven't done is the key, I think.'.. Ridley Scott

'If I were compelled to choose between living in west bromwich or florence I would make straight for west bromwich'.. J B Priestley

'You will find that the woman who is really kind to dogs is always one who has failed to inspire sympathy in men'.. Max Beerbohm

'Art is our chief means of breaking bread with the dead.'.. W H Auden

'Motherhood: All love begins and ends there.'.. Robert Browning

'I love argument, I love debate. I don't expect anyone just to sit there and agree with me, that's not their job'.. Margaret Thatcher

'Don't clap too hard - it's a very old building.'.. John Osborne

'Strange to see how a good dinner and feasting reconciles everybody.'.. Samuel Pepys

'Little children are still the symbol of the eternal marriage between love and duty.'.. George Eliot

'The only statistics you can trust are the ones who can falsify yourself'.. Winston Churchill

'We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.'.. Winston Churchill

'I dont hold with abroad and think foreigners speak English when our backs are turned'.. Quentin Crisp

'By indignities men come to dignities.'.. Sir Francis Bacon

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