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'Proud people breed sad sorrows for themselves.'.. Emily Bronte
'Beware of snobbery; it is the unwelcome recognition of one's own past failings'.. Cary Grant
'Everybody loves you when you're six foot in the ground.'.. John Lennon
'You only require two things in life: your sanity and your wife.'.. Tony Blair
'Television has bought murder back in to the home - where it belongs'.. Alfred Hitchcock
'Any fool can write a novel but it takes real genius to sell it.'.. James G Ballard
'All conservatism is based upon the idea that if you leave things alone you leave them as they are. But you do not. If you leave a thing alone you leave it to a torrent of change'.. GK Chesterton
'A good gulp of hot whiskey at bedtime - it's not very scientific but it helps'.. Alexander Fleming
'Love-making is an art which must be studied.'.. Ivor Novello
'The golden rule is that there are no golden rules.'.. George Bernard Shaw
'One should always be in love. That is the reason one should never marry.'.. Oscar Wilde
'We often repent of our first thoughts, and scarce ever of our second'.. Horace Walpole
'No man is useless while he has a friend.'.. Robert Louis Stevenson
'Man is nature's sole mistake.'.. W S Gilbert
'Melancholy, indeed, should be diverted by every means but drinking.'.. Samuel Johnson
'Liberal: a power worshipper without power.'.. George Orwell
'Death is no different whined at than withstood.'.. Philip Larkin
'If Galileo had said in verse that the world moved, the inquisition might have let him alone'.. Thomas Hardy
'It wasn't until late in life that I discovered how easy it is to say "I don't know."'.. Somerset Maugham
'Dangerous foreigners begin at Calais and dont stop until you get to Bombay where they play cricket and speak English'.. Clement Attlee
'Money can't buy you happiness but it does bring you a more pleasant form of misery.'.. Spike Milligan
'Like most of those who study history, he (Napoleon III) learned from the mistakes of the past how to make new ones.'.. A J P Taylor
'You know, somebody actually complimented me on my driving today. They left a little note on the windscreen, it said 'Parking Fine.''.. Tommy Cooper
'Art can never exist without naked beauty displayed.'.. William Blake
'I'll go through life either first class or third, but never in second.'.. Noel Coward
'Boredom is the legitimate kingdom of the philanthropic.'.. Virginia Woolf
'The best research for playing a drunk is being a British actor for 20 years'.. Michael Caine
'If a nation could not prosper without the enjoyment of perfect liberty and perfect justice, there is not in the world a nation which could ever have prospered.'.. Adam Smith
'Both read the Bible day and night, but thou read black where I read white'.. William Blake
'Ambition - it is the last infirmity of noble minds.'.. J M Barrie