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'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
'One way of looking at speech is to say it is a constant stratagem to cover nakedness.'.. Harold Pinter
'Circumstances are beyond human control, but our conduct is in our own power.'.. Benjamin Disraeli
'All fantasy should have a solid base in reality.'.. Max Beerbohm
'Happy the people whose annals are vacant.'.. Thomas Carlyle
'Science is the great antidote to the poison of enthusiasm and superstition.'.. Adam Smith
'Most people perform well in a crisis - when the spotlight is on them; it's on the Sunday afternoons of this life, when no-one is looking, that the spirit falters.'.. Alan Bennett
'Women are naturally secretive, and they like to do their own secreting.'.. Arthur Conan Doyle
'When one is writing a novel in the first person, one must be that person.'.. Daphne du Maurier
'Contrariwise, if it was so, it might be; and if it were so, it would be; but as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic.'.. Lewis Carroll
'A puritan is a person who pours righteous indignation into the wrong things'.. GK Chesterton
'A woman, the more curious she is about her face, is commonly the more careless about her house.'.. Ben Jonson
'Riches are a good hand maiden, but a poor mistress.'.. Sir Francis Bacon
'We think too much and feel too little.'.. Charlie Chaplin
'Deprivation is for me what daffodils were for Wordsworth.'.. Philip Larkin
'Our incomes are like our shoes; if too small, they gall and pinch us; but if too large, they cause us to stumble and to trip.'.. John Locke
'He was about as useful as a one-legged man at an arse kicking contest.'.. Rowan Atkinson
'Until you understand a writer's ignorance, presume yourself ignorant of his understanding'.. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
'To make your children capable of honesty is the beginning of education.'.. John Ruskin
'Men may be popular without being ambitious, but there is hardly an ambitious man who does not try to be popular.'.. Lord North
'Criticism, that fine flower of personal expression in the garden of letters'.. Joseph Conrad
'My boyfriend had a sex manual but he was dyslexic. I was lying there and he was looking for my vinegar'.. Victoria Wood
'I find it rather easy to portray a businessman. Being bland, rather cruel and incompetent comes naturally to me'.. John Cleese
'Most sets of values would give rise to universes that, although they might be very beautiful, would contain no one able to wonder at that beauty.'.. Stephen Hawking
'Cowards die many times before their deaths; the valiant never taste of death but once'.. William Shakespeare
'I am in that temper that if I were under water I would scarcely kick to come to the top'.. John Keats
'But better die than live mechanically a life that is a repetition of repetitions.'.. D H Lawrence
'If I were compelled to choose between living in west bromwich or florence I would make straight for west bromwich'.. J B Priestley
'Books shouldn't be daunting,they should be funny,exciting & wonderful'.. Roald Dahl
'The whole annual produce of the land and labour of every country...naturally divides itself into three parts; the rent of the land, the wages of labour, and the profits of stock'.. Adam Smith