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'Writing is an antidote for loneliness.'.. Steven Berkoff

'You will put on a dress of guilt and shoes with broken high ideals.'.. Roger McGough

'The hard part is getting to the top of Page 1'.. Sir Tom Stoppard

'The world is a place on which England is to be found'.. GK Chesterton

'In my opinion, most of the great men of the past were only there for the beer - the wealth, prestige and grandeur that went with the power.'.. A J P Taylor

'Theres only one thing worse than an Estate Agent but that can be safely lanced, drained and surgically dressed.'.. Stephen Fry

'I'd like to grow very old as slowly as possible.'.. Charles Lamb

'Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.'.. George Bernard Shaw

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

'Give a little love to a child, and you get a great deal back.'.. John Ruskin

'My face looks like a wedding-cake left out in the rain.'.. W H Auden

'I went out with this girl the other night, she wore this real slinky number...She looked great going down the stairs'.. Milton Jones

'A slavish bondage to parents cramps every faculty of the mind.'.. Mary Shelley

'They are most deceived that trusteth most in themselves.'.. Elizabeth I

'She said, 'I'm your biggest fan,' and I said, 'Who are you?' She said, 'Paris Hilton''.. Ricky Gervais

'Despair is the conclusion of fools.'.. Benjamin Disraeli

'Progress is not an illusion, it happens, but it is slow and invariably disappointing'.. George Orwell

'To enjoy freedom we have to control ourselves.'.. Virginia Woolf

'In heaven an angel is nobody in particular.'.. George Bernard Shaw

'The dread of evil is a much more forcible principle of human actions than the prospect of good.'.. John Locke

'Man hands on misery to man. It deepens like a coastal shelf. Get out as early as you can, and don't have any kids yourself'.. Philip Larkin

'Fortunate indeed the child who first sees the light of day in that romantic town'.. Andrew Carnegie

'I am not young enough to know everything.'.. J M Barrie

'Those who don't know history are destined to repeat it.'.. Edmund Burke

'The perfect love affair is one which is conducted entirely by post.'.. George Bernard Shaw

'England and America are two countries separated by the same language.'.. George Bernard Shaw

'I think we have all experienced passion that is not in any sense reasonable.'.. Stephen Fry

'Fond memory brings the light of other days around me.'.. Thomas More

'Disease generally begins that equality which death completes.'.. Samuel Johnson

'Dancing is the poetry of the foot.'.. John Dryden

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