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'Men love in haste, but they detest at leisure.'.. Lord Byron
'A week is a long time in politics.'.. Harold Wilson
'A cricketer's life is a life of splendid freedom, healthy effort, endless variety, and delightful good fellowship'.. W G Grace
'Education: the inculcation of the incomprehensible into the indifferent by the incompetent'.. John Maynard Keynes
'I wanted above all else not to be like my mum.'.. Julie Walters
'Although prepared for martyrdom, I preferred that it be postponed.'.. Winston Churchill
'Few have been taught to any purpose who have not been their own teachers.'.. Joshua Reynolds
'The trouble with British Rail passengers is that they think the railways are being run for their benefit'.. Jeremy Clarkson
'I see music as one language. If one musical form eats its own tail, it dies. So it needs to be a mongrel, it needs to be hybridised.'.. Sting
'It is my settled opinion that no one is attracted to a political career in the first place unless he is socially or emotionally crippled'.. Auberon Waugh
'He was gifted with the sly, sharp instinct for self-preservation that passes for wisdom among the rich.'.. Evelyn Waugh
'Old men are dangerous: it doesn't matter to them what is going to happen to the world'.. George Bernard Shaw
'A State without the means of some change is without the means of its conservation.'.. Edmund Burke
'Nothing that is morally wrong can be politically right.'.. W E Gladstone
'Life is a comedy for those who think... and a tragedy for those who feel'.. Horace Walpole
'Knowledge is power.'.. Sir Francis Bacon
'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
'Ambition - it is the last infirmity of noble minds.'.. J M Barrie
'I'm not a great one for looking back.'.. Ian Botham
'I felt my mother about the place. I don't think she haunts me, but I wouldn't put it past her.'.. Julie Walters
'You had better have one King than five hundred'.. Charles II
'From a drop of water a logician could infer the possibility of an Atlantic or a Niagara without having seen or heard of one or the other.'.. Arthur Conan Doyle
'The main object of religion is not to get a man into heaven, but to get heaven into him'.. Thomas Hardy
'Capitalism is the astounding belief that the most wickedest of men will do the most wickedest of things for the greatest good of everyone'.. John Maynard Keynes
'Be yourself is about the worst advice you can give to some people.'.. J B Priestley
'It is the test of a good religion whether you can joke about it.'.. GK Chesterton
'Life contains but two tragedies. One is not to get your heart's desire; the other is to get it.'.. George Bernard Shaw
'Strange to see how a good dinner and feasting reconciles everybody.'.. Samuel Pepys
'Business today consists in persuading crowds.'.. T S Eliot
'Almost every man wastes part of his life attempting to display qualities which he does not possess'.. Samuel Johnson