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'Artists are like everybody else.'.. Damien Hirst
'A clear and innocent conscience fears nothing.'.. Elizabeth I
'Certainly nothing is unnatural that is not physically impossible.'.. Richard Sheridan
'War would end if the dead could return.'.. Stanley Baldwin
'Better never than late.'.. George Bernard Shaw
'All slang is metaphor, and all metaphor is poetry.'.. GK Chesterton
'Saw a wedding in the church. It was strange to see what delight we married people have to see these poor fools decoyed into our condition.'.. Samuel Pepys
'All wealth is the product of labour.'.. John Locke
'There is no instinct like that of the heart.'.. Lord Byron
'Subtlety may deceive you; integrity never will.'.. Oliver Cromwell
'The true definition of a snob is one who craves for what separates men rather than for what unites them'.. John Buchan
'Life is ours to be spent, not to be saved.'.. D H Lawrence
'Coincidences are spiritual puns.'.. GK Chesterton
'Selfishness is the greatest curse of the human race.'.. W E Gladstone
'A man with God is always in the majority.'.. John Knox
'I feel monotony and death to be almost the same.'.. Charlotte Bronte
'A woman uses her intelligence to find reasons to support her intuition'.. GK Chesterton
'I hate publicity, and I have contrived to survive to be an old woman without it, except in the homey atmosphere of Agricultural Shows'.. Beatrix Potter
'Are you going to come quietly, or do I have to use earplugs?'.. Spike Milligan
'He was a bold man that first eat on oyster.'.. Jonathan Swift
'This diamond has so many carats it's almost a turnip.'.. Richard Burton
'Little children are still the symbol of the eternal marriage between love and duty.'.. George Eliot
'Experience is the child of thought, and thought is the child of action.'.. Benjamin Disraeli
'Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.'.. Bertrand Russell
'Surround yourself with human beings. They are easier to fight for than principles'.. Ian Fleming
'Other nations use 'force'; we Britons alone use 'Might'.'.. Evelyn Waugh
'I'm a holy man minus the holiness.'.. E M Forster
'A belief is like a guillotine, just as heavy, just as light.'.. David Hockney
'You know, I go to the theatre to be entertained. I don’t want to see plays about rape, sodomy and drug addiction...I can get all that at home'.. Peter Cook
'The news is always bad, even when it sounds good'.. Aldous Huxley