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'Society needs to condemn a little more and understand a little less.'.. John Major
'You cannot teach old dogs new tricks.'.. Joseph Chamberlain
'He was one of those men who possess almost every gift, except the gift of the power to use them.'.. Charles Kingsley
'The worst enemy of life, freedom and the common decencies is total anarchy; their second worst enemy is total efficiency.'.. Aldous Huxley
'It is our responsibilities, not ourselves, that we should take seriously.'.. Peter Ustinov
'God never made His work for man to mend.'.. John Dryden
'The perfect love affair is one which is conducted entirely by post.'.. George Bernard Shaw
'Taste is the only morality. Tell me what you like and I'll tell you what you are'.. John Ruskin
'I hate people who think it's clever to take drugs... like custom officers'.. Jack Dee
'I used to go missing a lot...Miss Canada, Miss United Kingdom, Miss World.'.. George Best
'May not the complaint, that common people are above their station, often take its rise in the fact of uncommon people being below theirs?'.. Charles Dickens
'Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.'.. Bertrand Russell
'I doubt whether classical education ever has been or can be successfully carried out without corporal punishment'.. George Orwell
'People are wrong when they say opera is not what it used to be. It is what it used to be. That is what's wrong with it.'.. Noel Coward
'Silence is the most perfect expression of scorn.'.. George Bernard Shaw
'To see a world in a grain of sand and heaven in a wild flower Hold infinity in the palms of your hand and eternity in an hour'.. William Blake
'A State without the means of some change is without the means of its conservation.'.. Edmund Burke
'Those who have no hope pass their old age shrouded with an inward gloom'.. Wilfred Owen
'Militant feminists, I take my hat off to them. They don't like that'.. Milton Jones
'Nothing is too wonderful to be true if it be consistent with the laws of nature'.. Michael Faraday
'But the answer to how to live is to stop thinking about it. And just to live. But you're doing that anyway. However you intellectualise it, you still just live.'.. Damien Hirst
'Men can only be happy when they do not assume that the object of life is happiness'.. George Orwell
'My neighbour asked if he could use my lawnmower and I told him of course he could, so long as he didn't take it out of my garden.'.. Eric Morecambe
'The true definition of a snob is one who craves for what separates men rather than for what unites them'.. John Buchan
'When hospitality becomes an art it loses its very soul.'.. Max Beerbohm
'Do not allow to slip away from you freedoms the people who came before you won with such hard knocks.'.. D H Lawrence
'There are hardly two things more peculiarly English than Welsh rarebit and Irish stew'.. GK Chesterton
'I became a great runner because if you are a kid in Leeds called Sebastian you have to be'.. Sebastian Coe
'The greatest pleasure I know is to do a good action by stealth and have it found out by accident.'.. Charles Lamb
'Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.'.. Oscar Wilde