Winston Churchill
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'Money can't buy you happiness but it does bring you a more pleasant form of misery.'.. Spike Milligan

'They say an actor is only as good as his parts. Well my parts have done me pretty well'.. Barbara Windsor

'Honour sinks where commerce long prevails.'.. Oliver Goldsmith

'You write with ease to show your breeding, but easy writing's curst hard reading.'.. Richard Sheridan

'You only require two things in life: your sanity and your wife.'.. Tony Blair

'Better never than late.'.. George Bernard Shaw

'In politics, guts is all'.. Barbara Castle

'The real tragedy of the poor is the poverty of their aspirations'.. Adam Smith

'I am not a heavy drinker. I can sometimes go for hours without touching a drop.'.. Noel Coward

'It is not good to cross the bridge before you get to it.'.. Judi Dench

'Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings.'.. Samuel Johnson

'One sees great things from the valley; only small things from the peak.'.. GK Chesterton

'For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbors and laugh at them in our turn?'.. Jane Austen

'Friendship is Love without his wings'.. Lord Byron

'Dickens is one of those authors who are well worth stealing.'.. George Orwell

'A yawn is a silent shout'.. GK Chesterton

'I try to avoid looking forward or backward, and try to keep looking upward.'.. Charlotte Bronte

'Every time you liberate a woman, you liberate a man'.. Emmeline Pankhurst

'I have no consistency, except in politics; and that probably arises from my indifference to the subject altogether'.. Lord Byron

'Nothing is so fatal to religion as indifference.'.. Edmund Burke

'There is no such thing as darkness; only a failure to see.'.. Malcolm Muggeridge

'A man's friendships are one of the best measures of his worth.'.. Charles Darwin

'Their's not to make reply, Their's not to reason why, Their's but to do and die'.. Alfred Lord Tennyson

'Pessimist: One who, when he has the choice of two evils, chooses both'.. Oscar Wilde

'I think if Keith Moon was here today and you asked him to recall most of his early life or most of his life, he wouldn't be able to recall it.'.. Roger Daltrey

'I went window shopping today! I bought four windows.'.. Tommy Cooper

'Only a mediocre person is always at his best.'.. Somerset Maugham

'History is written by the victors.'.. Winston Churchill

'Enlightened people seldom or never possess a sense of responsibility'.. George Orwell

'Whenever a separation is made between liberty and justice, neither, in my opinion, is safe.'.. Edmund Burke

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