Winston Churchill
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'I had a dream that I was awake and I woke up to find myself asleep.'.. Stan Laurel

'Immortality is really desirable, I guess. In terms of images, anyway.'.. Damien Hirst

'Her virtue was that she said what she thought, her vice that what she thought didn't amount to much.'.. Peter Ustinov

'Success is the child of audacity.'.. Benjamin Disraeli

'An ounce of mother is worth a pound of clergy.'.. Rudyard Kipling

'I want to live my life so that my nights are not full of regrets.'.. D H Lawrence

'Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs.'.. William Shakespeare

'We've discovered that the less we do, the more money we make.'.. Eric Idle

'Let others hail the rising sun: I bow to that whose course is run.'.. David Garrick

'A man's as old as he's feeling. A woman as old as she looks.'.. Samuel Taylor Coleridge

'God never made His work for man to mend.'.. John Dryden

'I think that making love is the best form of exercise.'.. Cary Grant

'It is so pleasant to come across people more stupid than ourselves. We love them at once for being so'.. Jerome K Jerome

'What's done can't be undone.'.. William Shakespeare

'In times of joy, all of us wished we possessed a tail we could wag.'.. W H Auden

'WH Auden didnt love God, he just fancied him'.. Stephen Spender

'Love is 2 minutes and 52 seconds of squelching noises'.. John Lydon (Johnny Rotten)

'Having one child makes you a parent; having two you are a referee.'.. David Frost

'From the middle of life onward, only he remains vitally alive who is ready to die with life'.. Samuel Johnson

'Any woman who understands the problems of running a home will be nearer to understanding the problems of running a country'.. Margaret Thatcher

'However I dress it up, I was a spy and I am not proud of it'.. Christine Keeler

'It is only in the world of objects that we have time and space and selves.'.. T S Eliot

'Those who will not reason, are bigots, those who cannot, are fools, and those who dare not, are slaves'.. Lord Byron

'Good and bad men are less than they seem.'.. Samuel Taylor Coleridge

'Take away love and our earth is a tomb.'.. Robert Browning

'The avoidance of taxes is the only intellectual pursuit that still carries any reward'.. John Maynard Keynes

'I left England when I was 4 when I discovered that I couldnt be king'.. Bob Hope

'Humour is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.'.. Virginia Woolf

'Football wasn't meant to be run by linesmen and air traffic control.'.. Tommy Docherty

'I like work; it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours.'.. Jerome K Jerome

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