Winston Churchill
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'Now this is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning'.. Winston Churchill

'Nobody ever died of laughter.'.. Max Beerbohm

'Never the time and the place and the loved one all together!'.. Robert Browning

'I think when the full horror of being fifty hits you, you should stay home and have a good cry'.. Alan Bleasdale

'In human relationships, kindness and lies are worth a thousand truths'.. Graham Greene

'Soul meets soul on lovers' lips.'.. Percy Bysshe Shelley

'We know what we are, but know not what we may be.'.. William Shakespeare

'Love is blind.'.. Geoffrey Chaucer

'I could not live in a country so miserable as to possess no castles'.. John Ruskin

'How much easier it is to be critical than to be correct.'.. Benjamin Disraeli

'I am not a heavy drinker. I can sometimes go for hours without touching a drop.'.. Noel Coward

'Genius at first is little more than a great capacity for receiving discipline'.. George Eliot

'No battle is worth fighting except the last one.'.. Enoch Powell

'My boyfriend had a sex manual but he was dyslexic. I was lying there and he was looking for my vinegar'.. Victoria Wood

'A cynic is a man who knows the price of everything but the value of nothing'.. Oscar Wilde

'Life is like a very short visit to a toyshop between birth and death.'.. Desmond Morris

'Great countries are those that produce great people.'.. Benjamin Disraeli

'I used to think anyone doing anything weird was weird. Now I know that it is the people that call others weird that are weird'.. Paul McCartney

'There was no respect for youth when I was young, and now that I am old, there is no respect for age, I missed it coming and going'.. J B Priestley

'It is not true that drink changes a man's character. It may reveal it more clearly.'.. John Osborne

'The essence of being human is that one does not seek perfection'.. George Orwell

'Nothing that is worth knowing can be taught'.. Oscar Wilde

'Life could be wonderful if people would leave you alone.'.. Charlie Chaplin

'Who overcomes by force, hath overcome but half his foe.'.. John Milton

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

'Be yourself is about the worst advice you can give to some people.'.. J B Priestley

'It is the heart always that sees, before the head can see.'.. Thomas Carlyle

'My biggest regret in life is saving David Frost from drowning'.. Peter Cook

'Silence is the most perfect expression of scorn.'.. George Bernard Shaw

'If I played Hamlet, they`d call it a horror film'.. Peter Cushing

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