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'All vital truth contains the memory of all that for which it is not true.'.. D H Lawrence
'Anxiety is the hand maiden of creativity.'.. T S Eliot
'There are grounds for cautious optimism that we may now be near the end of the search for the ultimate laws of nature.'.. Stephen Hawking
'I've never intended to be controversial but it's very easy to be controversial in pop music because nobody ever is'.. Morrissey
'The age of chivalry is past. Bores have succeeded to dragons.'.. Charles Dickens
'I can't stand innuendo. When I see one in a script I whip it out immediately'.. Kenneth Williams
'You know the worst thing about oral sex? The view.'.. Maureen Lipman
'There is no such thing as darkness; only a failure to see.'.. Malcolm Muggeridge
'I always wanted to be an explorer, but - it seemed I was doomed to be nothing more than a very silly person.'.. Michael Palin
'Three minutes thought would suffice to sort this out but thought is irksome and three minutes is a long time'.. A E Housman
'Eating words has never given me indigestion.'.. Winston Churchill
'I think you should take your job seriously, but not yourself - that is the best combination'.. Judi Dench
'Except a living man, there is nothing more wonderful than a book.'.. Charles Kingsley
'I am determined that my children shall be brought up in their father's religion, if they can find out what it is.'.. Charles Lamb
'Every man desires to live long, but no man wishes to be old.'.. Jonathan Swift
'Dancing is the poetry of the foot.'.. John Dryden
'The trouble with political jokes is that they get elected'.. Tim Brooke-Taylor
'Mountains are the beginning and the end of all natural scenery.'.. John Ruskin
'The block of granite which was an obstacle in the pathway of the weak, became a stepping-stone in the pathway of the strong.'.. Thomas Carlyle
'Fortune brings in some boats that are not steered.'.. William Shakespeare
'War is a quarrel between two thieves too cowardly to fight their own battle.'.. Thomas Carlyle
'With two small children, I haven't had a wash since 2001 so the chance to go shopping is way down the list. It is something I do intend to get'.. Jo Brand
'Elegance is inferior to virtue.'.. Mary Shelley
'The thing with Hi-Tech is that you always end up using scissors'.. David Hockney
'I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat.'.. Winston Churchill
'There were many times my pants were so thin I could sit on a dime and tell if it was heads or tails.'.. Jonathan Swift
'Adventure is not outside man; it is within.'.. George Eliot
'Democracy means government by discussion, but it is only effective if you can stop people talking'.. Clement Attlee
'One should always play fairly when one has the winning cards.'.. Oscar Wilde
'The length of a film should be directly determined by the endurance of the human bladder'.. Alfred Hitchcock