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'The creative habit is like a drug. The particular obsession changes, but the excitement, the thrill of your creation lasts'.. Henry Moore
'Nothing puzzles me more than the time and space; and yet nothing troubles me less.'.. Charles Lamb
'I have a face like the behind of an elephant.'.. Charles Laughton
'If they make it illegal to wear the veil at work, bee keepers are going to be furious'.. Milton Jones
'A clear and innocent conscience fears nothing.'.. Elizabeth I
'All meanings, we know, depend on the key of interpretation.'.. George Eliot
'All good things which exist are the fruits of originality.'.. John Stuart Mill
'Love seeketh not itself to please, nor for itself hath any care, but for another gives its ease, and builds a Heaven in Hell's despair'.. William Blake
'O, what a tangled web we weave when first we practise to deceive!'.. Walter Scott
'I thought how unpleasant it is to be locked out; and I thought how it is worse, perhaps, to be locked in.'.. Virginia Woolf
'You can always count on Americans to do the right thing - after they've tried everything else.'.. Winston Churchill
'The essence of being human is that one does not seek perfection'.. George Orwell
'In every American there is an air of incorrigible innocence, which seems to conceal a diabolical cunning.'.. A E Housman
'You will be better advised to watch what we do instead of what we say.'.. A A Milne
'Melancholy, indeed, should be diverted by every means but drinking.'.. Samuel Johnson
'A man seldom thinks with more earnestness of anything than he does of his dinner'.. Samuel Johnson
'If you want to see my monument, look around you'.. Christopher Wren
'Long hair is an unpardonable offense which should be punishable by death.'.. Morrissey
'What is written without effort is in general read without pleasure.'.. Samuel Johnson
'Money can't buy you happiness but it does bring you a more pleasant form of misery.'.. Spike Milligan
'The worst of revolutions is a restoration'.. Charles James Fox
'I went into the business for the money, and the art grew out of it. If people are disillusioned by that remark, I can't help it. It's the truth.'.. Charlie Chaplin
'We may be a small island, but we are not a small people.'.. Edward Heath
'Nowadays you can go anywhere in the world in a few hours, and nothing is fabulous any more'.. Roald Dahl
'A dirty joke is a sort of mental rebellion.'.. George Orwell
'I don’t understand bus lanes. Why do poor people have to get to places quicker than I do?'.. Jeremy Clarkson
'Let us not forget that we can never go farther than we can persuade at least half of the people to go'.. Hugh Gaitskell
'English consists entirely of foreign words pronounced wrongly'.. Bob Hope
'All political power is a trust'.. Charles James Fox
'The true definition of a snob is one who craves for what separates men rather than for what unites them'.. John Buchan