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'An unexciting truth may be eclipsed by a thrilling lie.'.. Aldous Huxley
'Great discoveries and improvements invariably involve the cooperation of many minds'.. Alexander Graham Bell
'For success, attitude is equally as important as ability.'.. Walter Scott
'A ruffled mind makes a restless pillow.'.. Charlotte Bronte
'I have long held the view that if a Vet cannot catch his patient there is not much to worry about'.. James Herriot
'Though lovers be lost love shall not.'.. Dylan Thomas
'Better to reign in hell than serve in heaven'.. John Milton
'There might be 1 finger on the button, but there will be 15 fingers on the safety catch'.. Harold Macmillan
'Music is everybody's possession. It's only publishers who think that people own it.'.. John Lennon
'Life could be wonderful if people would leave you alone.'.. Charlie Chaplin
'The truth is rarely pure and never simple.'.. Oscar Wilde
'A man may devote himself to death and destruction to save a nation; but no nation will devote itself to death and destruction to save mankind.'.. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
'It is not reasonable that those who gamble with men's lives should not stake their own.'.. H G Wells
'No one can read with profit that which he cannot learn to read with pleasure.'.. Thomas Hardy
'No man is an island, entire of itself'.. John Donne
'When people tell you how young you look, they are telling you how old you are.'.. Cary Grant
'My whole life is waiting for the questions to which I have prepared answers.'.. Sir Tom Stoppard
'Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same.'.. Oscar Wilde
'Success is the child of audacity.'.. Benjamin Disraeli
'A prudent question is one-half of wisdom.'.. Sir Francis Bacon
'Let us not forget that we can never go farther than we can persuade at least half of the people to go'.. Hugh Gaitskell
'It is a cliche that most cliches are true, but then like most cliches, that cliche is untrue'.. Stephen Fry
'Everything I've ever told you, including this, is a lie'.. Peter Cook
'My unhealthy affection for my second daughter has waned. Now I despise all my seven children equally.'.. Evelyn Waugh
'I always tell a man not to use the word always'.. Robert Walpole
'In politics, guts is all'.. Barbara Castle
'One cannot really be a Catholic and grown up.'.. George Orwell
'Human blunders usually do more to shape history than human wickedness.'.. A J P Taylor
'There is no education like adversity.'.. Benjamin Disraeli
'The fickleness of the women I love is only equalled by the infernal constancy of the women who love me'.. George Bernard Shaw