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'I am one of those who would rather sink with faith than swim without it.'.. Stanley Baldwin
'Are you going to come quietly, or do I have to use earplugs?'.. Spike Milligan
'A woman, especially, if she have the misfortune of knowing anything, should conceal it as well as she can'.. Jane Austen
'Any fool can write a novel but it takes real genius to sell it.'.. James G Ballard
'You can give without loving, but you can never love without giving.'.. Robert Louis Stevenson
'Integrity is so perishable in the summer months of success.'.. Vanessa Redgrave
'Science must have originated in the feeling that something was wrong.'.. Thomas Carlyle
'I don't mind how much my Ministers talk, so long as they do what I say'.. Margaret Thatcher
'In love as in sport, the amateur status must be strictly maintained.'.. Robert Graves
'War would end if the dead could return.'.. Stanley Baldwin
'Life appears to me too short to be spent in nursing animosity, or registering wrongs.'.. Charlotte Bronte
'You want to be foretold the weather? it is bad enough when it comes without having the misery of knowing about it beforehand'.. Jerome K Jerome
'Media is just a word that has come to mean bad journalism.'.. Graham Greene
'When everyone is somebody, then no one's anybody.'.. W S Gilbert
'The fact of the matter is that most actors are shy people.'.. Roger Moore
'There is no education like adversity.'.. Benjamin Disraeli
'Learn from your dreams what you lack.'.. W H Auden
'I'm every bourgeois nightmare - a Cockney with intelligence and a million dollars'.. Michael Caine
'Neither a borrower nor a lender be.'.. William Shakespeare
'True it is that covetousness is rich, modesty starves.'.. John Milton
'Great countries are those that produce great people.'.. Benjamin Disraeli
'Love is only a dirty trick played on us to achieve continuation of the species.'.. Somerset Maugham
'The only possible way there would be an uprising in this country would be if they banned caravanning and car boot sales'.. Victoria Wood
'We are not just here to manage capitalism but to change society and to define its finer values'.. Tony Benn
'A room hung with pictures is a room hung with thoughts.'.. Joshua Reynolds
'Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested.'.. Sir Francis Bacon
'If I have seen further than others, it is by standing upon the shoulders of giants'.. Isaac Newton
'Except a living man, there is nothing more wonderful than a book.'.. Charles Kingsley
'England is not all the world.'.. Mary, Queen of Scots
'I think that by ignoring the show you're ignoring the audience who put you there'.. Simon Cowell