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'England and America are two countries separated by the same language.'.. George Bernard Shaw
'Modesty seldom resides in a breast that is not enriched with nobler virtues.'.. Oliver Goldsmith
'When a man is wrapped up in himself, he makes a pretty small package'.. John Ruskin
'A poet is a professional maker of verbal objects.'.. W H Auden
'We are a small country with a large sense of its own importance'.. David Walliams
'I have the body of an eighteen year old. I keep it in the fridge.'.. Spike Milligan
'In all intellectual debates, both sides tend to be correct in what they affirm, and wrong in what they deny'.. John Stuart Mill
'Man is an animal that makes bargains: no other animal does this - no dog exchanges bones with another.'.. Adam Smith
'The thing with Hi-Tech is that you always end up using scissors'.. David Hockney
'The love of a mother is the veil of a softer light between the heart and the heavenly Father'.. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
'Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it.'.. George Bernard Shaw
'Never trust a man, who when left alone with a tea cosey... Doesn't try it on.'.. Billy Connolly
'A day wasted on others is not wasted on one's self.'.. Charles Dickens
'For my part, I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move.'.. Robert Louis Stevenson
'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
'Taste is the only morality. Tell me what you like and I'll tell you what you are'.. John Ruskin
'We know what happens to people who stay in the middle of the road. They get run down.'.. Aneurin Bevan
'You can preach a better sermon with your life than with your lips.'.. Oliver Goldsmith
'Parliament must not be told a direct untruth, but it's quite possible to allow them to mislead themselves'.. Norman Tebbit
'Poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese'.. GK Chesterton
'Save your money. You're going to need twice as much money in your old age as you think'.. Michael Caine
''May my last breath be drawn from a pipe and exhaled in a pun''.. Charles Lamb
'Life is made of ever so many partings welded together.'.. Charles Dickens
'Bad humor is an evasion of reality; good humor is an acceptance of it.'.. Malcolm Muggeridge
'No benevolent man ever lost altogether the fruits of his benevolence.'.. Adam Smith
'A man's as old as he's feeling. A woman as old as she looks.'.. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
'I was court-martialled in my absence, and sentenced to death in my absence, so I said they could shoot me in my absence.'.. Thomas Hardy
'A fashion is nothing but an induced epidemic.'.. George Bernard Shaw
'One sees great things from the valley; only small things from the peak.'.. GK Chesterton
'Keep violence in the mind where it belongs.'.. Brian Aldiss