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'She said, 'I'm your biggest fan,' and I said, 'Who are you?' She said, 'Paris Hilton''.. Ricky Gervais
'Diplomats were invented simply to waste time.'.. David Lloyd George
'As with the Christian religion, the worst advertisement for Socialism is its adherents'.. George Orwell
'Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.'.. George Bernard Shaw
'My dreams were all my own; I accounted for them to nobody; they were my refuge when annoyed - my dearest pleasure when free'.. Mary Shelley
'How much easier it is to be critical than to be correct.'.. Benjamin Disraeli
'I'm not afraid of dying I just don't want to be there when it happens.'.. Spike Milligan
'The principle of the Gothic architecture is infinity made imaginable.'.. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
'Difficulties are just things to overcome'.. Ernest Shackleton
'I have often thought what a melancholy world this would be without children, and what an inhuman world without the aged'.. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
'Absence - that common cure of love.'.. Lord Byron
'One's life has many compartments.'.. Harold Pinter
'Not what I have, but what I do is my kingdom.'.. Thomas Carlyle
'My wife is a sex object - every time I ask for sex, she objects.'.. Les Dawson
'There is a wisdom of the head, and a wisdom of the heart.'.. Charles Dickens
'A diplomat these days in nothing, but a head waiter who is allowed to sit down occasionally.'.. Peter Ustinov
'Everyone ought to bear patiently the results of his own conduct.'.. William Shakespeare
'Always be a little kinder than necessary.'.. J M Barrie
'On the whole, human beings want to be good, but not too good, and not quite all the time'.. George Orwell
'Books like friends, should be few and well-chosen.'.. Samuel Johnson
'I never knew a man come to greatness or eminence who lay abed late in the morning.'.. Jonathan Swift
'An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last.'.. Winston Churchill
'Egotism is the source and summary of all faults and miseries.'.. Thomas Carlyle
'TV is as injurious to the soul as fast food is to the body'.. Quentin Crisp
'I have called this principle, by which each slight variation, if useful, is preserved, by the term of Natural Selection.'.. Charles Darwin
'It is justice, not charity, that is wanting in the world.'.. Mary Shelley
'Give him enough rope and he will hang himself.'.. Charlotte Bronte
'Let us not forget that we can never go farther than we can persuade at least half of the people to go'.. Hugh Gaitskell
'I had a dream that I was awake and I woke up to find myself asleep.'.. Stan Laurel
'A man with God is always in the majority.'.. John Knox