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'The greatest good you can do for another is not just to share your riches but to reveal to him his own.'.. Benjamin Disraeli
'Difficulties mastered are opportunities won.'.. Winston Churchill
'In our time political speech and writing are largely the defense of the indefensible'.. George Orwell
'People say you should read your criticism because it will make you a better person but it doesn't. It just makes you a sad bitter old showbiz nightmare'.. Jo Brand
'I think that by ignoring the show you're ignoring the audience who put you there'.. Simon Cowell
'Dinner parties are given most in the middle classes by way of revenge'.. William M Thackeray
'A lover without indiscretion is no lover at all.'.. Thomas Hardy
'The trouble with children is that they are non-returnable'.. Quentin Crisp
'If we open a quarrel between past and present, we shall find that we have lost the future'.. Winston Churchill
''Tis the last rose of summer Left blooming alone; All her lovely companions Are faded and gone.'.. Thomas More
'If a farmer fills his barn with grain, he gets mice. If he leaves it empty, he gets actors'.. Walter Scott
'Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.'.. Benjamin Disraeli
'Unlimited power corrupts the possessor.'.. William Pitt (The Younger)
'Adapt or perish, now as ever, is nature's inexorable imperative.'.. H G Wells
'There are books of which the backs and covers are by far the best parts.'.. Charles Dickens
'Progress is not an illusion, it happens, but it is slow and invariably disappointing'.. George Orwell
'God not only plays dice, He also sometimes throws the dice where they cannot be seen.'.. Stephen Hawking
'A slavish bondage to parents cramps every faculty of the mind.'.. Mary Shelley
'Art, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere.'.. GK Chesterton
'Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.'.. T S Eliot
'It is not how much one makes but to what purpose one spends.'.. John Ruskin
'It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend.'.. John Dryden
'Life is ours to be spent, not to be saved.'.. D H Lawrence
'I've sometimes thought of marrying - and then I've thought again.'.. Noel Coward
'Art is the most passionate orgy within man's grasp.'.. John Donne
'Greenwich possesses the best air, the best prospect and the best conversation'.. Daniel Defoe
'A minute's success pays the failure of years.'.. Robert Browning
'I'd the upbringing a nun would envy. Until I was fifteen I was more familiar with Africa than my own body'.. Joe Orton
'So little done, so much to do.'.. Cecil Rhodes
'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