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'So much of left-wing thought is a kind of playing with fire by people who don't even know that fire is hot'.. George Orwell
'I am certainly an ought and not a must.'.. E M Forster
'The fact of the matter is that most actors are shy people.'.. Roger Moore
'How much easier it is to be critical than to be correct.'.. Benjamin Disraeli
'I then realized my appearance was a bit odd. My right leg was no longer with me. It had caught somewhere in the top of the cockpit as I tried to leave my Spitfire.'.. Douglas Bader
'I'm an optimist, but an optimist who carries a raincoat.'.. Harold Wilson
'Ideas shape the course of history.'.. John Maynard Keynes
'When childhood dies, its corpses are called adults.'.. Brian Aldiss
'What is reading, but silent conversation.'.. Charles Lamb
'Time you enjoy wasting, was not wasted.'.. John Lennon
'The light, that lies In woman's eyes, Has been my heart's undoing.'.. Thomas More
'If you've got a big mouth and you're controversial, you're going to get attention.'.. Simon Cowell
'Be not afraid of greatness: some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them'.. William Shakespeare
'The most important of my discoveries have been suggested to me by my failures'.. Humphry Davy
'Rules are for the obedience of fools and the guidance of wise men.'.. Douglas Bader
'A room without books is like a body without a soul.'.. GK Chesterton
'The worst moment for the atheist is when he is really thankful and has nobody to thank.'.. Dante G Rossetti
'I hate the word `hate`.'.. Peter Cushing
'A yawn is a silent shout'.. GK Chesterton
'For most of history, Anonymous was a woman.'.. Virginia Woolf
'Criticism, that fine flower of personal expression in the garden of letters'.. Joseph Conrad
''Tis the last rose of summer Left blooming alone; All her lovely companions Are faded and gone.'.. Thomas More
'Whichever party is in office, the Treasury is in power.'.. Harold Wilson
'No bird soars too high if he soars with his own wings.'.. William Blake
'A person may cause evil to others not only by his actions but by his inaction'.. John Stuart Mill
'The highest possible stage in moral culture is when we recognize that we ought to control our thoughts.'.. Charles Darwin
'Possession isn't nine-tenths of the law. It's nine-tenths of the problem'.. John Lennon
'I think we have all experienced passion that is not in any sense reasonable.'.. Stephen Fry
'Be yourself is about the worst advice you can give to some people.'.. J B Priestley
'Like all great travellers, I have seen more than I remember, and remember more than I have seen.'.. Benjamin Disraeli