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'So much of left-wing thought is a kind of playing with fire by people who don't even know that fire is hot'.. George Orwell
'We always love those who admire us; we do not always love those whom we admire.'.. Rupert Brooke
'I don't think I am any good. If I thought I was any good, I wouldn't be.'.. John Betjeman
'Early in life I had noticed that no event is ever correctly reported in a newspaper'.. George Orwell
'I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them.'.. Ian Fleming
'When a man is tired of London, he is tired of life; for there is in London all that life can afford.'.. Samuel Johnson
'Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not; a sense of humor to console him for what he is.'.. Sir Francis Bacon
'Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.'.. Winston Churchill
'I`ve arrived, and to prove it, I`m here.'.. Max Bygraves
'In our time political speech and writing are largely the defense of the indefensible'.. George Orwell
'The most happy marriage I can picture or imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman'.. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
'Death is the sound of distant thunder at a picnic.'.. W H Auden
'Being deaf and partially blind means I don't really watch TV. I wouldn't know what to do with a remote control.'.. Eric Sykes
'The difference between Socrates and Jesus? The great conscious and the immeasurably great unconscious'.. Thomas Carlyle
'I have no intention of uttering my last words on stage. A couple of depraved young girls and room service will do me fine'.. Peter O’Toole
'The Pistols were like my work of art. They were my canvas'.. Malcolm McLaren
'Love seeketh not itself to please, nor for itself hath any care, but for another gives its ease, and builds a Heaven in Hell's despair'.. William Blake
'Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel.'.. Samuel Johnson
'The first and simplest emotion which we discover in the human mind, is curiosity.'.. Edmund Burke
'All mankind... being all equal and independent, no one ought to harm another in his life, health, liberty or possessions.'.. John Locke
'It is only when you see people looking ridiculous that you realize just how much you love them'.. Agatha Christie
'One man's wage increase is another man's price increase.'.. Harold Wilson
'I am prepared to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter.'.. Winston Churchill
'An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered'.. GK Chesterton
'Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.'.. George Bernard Shaw
'No man is regular in his attendance at the House of Commons until he is married.'.. Benjamin Disraeli
'Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.'.. Rudyard Kipling
'Most sets of values would give rise to universes that, although they might be very beautiful, would contain no one able to wonder at that beauty.'.. Stephen Hawking
'He who laughs most, learns best.'.. John Cleese
'If you want to eat well in England, eat three breakfasts.'.. Somerset Maugham