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'We have always found the Irish a bit odd. They refuse to be English.'.. Winston Churchill
'All heiresses are beautiful.'.. John Dryden
'In modern business it is not the crook who is to be feared most, it is the honest man who doesn't know what he is doing'.. William Wordsworth
'It is justice, not charity, that is wanting in the world.'.. Mary Shelley
'All I ask is the chance to prove that money can't make me happy.'.. Spike Milligan
'The things most people want to know about are usually none of their business.'.. George Bernard Shaw
'I have frequently gained my first real insight into the character of parents by studying their children'.. Arthur Conan Doyle
'Remember the dignity of your womanhood. Do not appeal, do not beg, do not grovel. Take courage, join hands, stand beside us, fight with us.'.. Christabel Pankhurst
'We are just an advanced breed of monkeys on a minor planet of a very average star. But we can understand the Universe. That makes us something very special.'.. Stephen Hawking
'Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man'.. Sir Francis Bacon
'I wouldn't dream of taking life as it comes. It may not be colour co-ordinated'.. Julian Clary
'But there, everything has its drawbacks, as the man said when his mother-in-law died, and they came down upon him for the funeral expenses'.. Jerome K Jerome
'The nation that secures control of the air will ultimately control the world.'.. Alexander Graham Bell
'Enlightened people seldom or never possess a sense of responsibility'.. George Orwell
'If you're holding out for universal popularity, I'm afraid you will be in this cabin for a very long time.'.. J K Rowling
'Like most of those who study history, he (Napoleon III) learned from the mistakes of the past how to make new ones.'.. A J P Taylor
'We forge the chains we wear in life.'.. Charles Dickens
'Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past'.. George Orwell
'Outside every fat man there was an even fatter man trying to close in.'.. Sir Kingsley Amis
'Sure I am of this, that you have only to endure to conquer.'.. Winston Churchill
'Without humility there can be no humanity.'.. John Buchan
'All wealth is the product of labour.'.. John Locke
'Being pregnant is an occupational hazard of being a wife.'.. Queen Victoria
'Virtue is the fount whence honour springs.'.. Christopher Marlowe
'Like the measles, love is most dangerous when it comes late in life.'.. Lord Byron
'Silence is the most perfect expression of scorn.'.. George Bernard Shaw
'You will put on a dress of guilt and shoes with broken high ideals.'.. Roger McGough
'Borrow trouble for yourself, if that's your nature, but don't lend it to your neighbours'.. Rudyard Kipling
'I have long held the view that if a Vet cannot catch his patient there is not much to worry about'.. James Herriot
'It was easier to conquer it than to know what to do with it.'.. Horace Walpole