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'Language is not only the vehicle of thought, it is a great and efficient instrument in thinking'.. Humphry Davy
'You can give without loving, but you can never love without giving.'.. Robert Louis Stevenson
'Fill your paper with the breathings of your heart.'.. William Wordsworth
'The thing about imagination is that by the very act of putting it down, there must be some truth in one's own imagination.'.. Dennis Potter
'The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit.'.. Somerset Maugham
'Agitation is the marshalling of the conscience of a nation to mold its laws.'.. Robert Peel
'One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making new discoveries'.. A A Milne
'I'm not a great one for looking back.'.. Ian Botham
'The main facts in human life are five: birth, food, sleep, love and death'.. E M Forster
'A diplomat is a man who thinks twice before he says nothing.'.. Edward Heath
'The kind of people who always go on about whether a thing is in good taste invariably have very bad taste'.. Joe Orton
'This is the first age that's ever paid much attention to the future, which is a little ironic since we may not have one'.. Arthur C Clarke
'There might be 1 finger on the button, but there will be 15 fingers on the safety catch'.. Harold Macmillan
'I'd sooner be called a successful crook than a destitute monarch.'.. Charlie Chaplin
'Fertilizer does no good in a heap, but a little spread around works miracles all over.'.. Richard Sheridan
'Do not allow to slip away from you freedoms the people who came before you won with such hard knocks.'.. D H Lawrence
'It is not reasonable that those who gamble with men's lives should not stake their own.'.. H G Wells
'In the end, the love you take is equal to the love you make.'.. Paul McCartney
'A professor is someone who talks in someone else's sleep.'.. W H Auden
'God is the perfect poet.'.. Robert Browning
'Prudence is a rich, ugly, old maid courted by incapacity.'.. William Blake
'A woman uses her intelligence to find reasons to support her intuition'.. GK Chesterton
'Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.'.. T S Eliot
'All fantasy should have a solid base in reality.'.. Max Beerbohm
'Every time you liberate a woman, you liberate a man'.. Emmeline Pankhurst
'A man may devote himself to death and destruction to save a nation; but no nation will devote itself to death and destruction to save mankind.'.. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
'Until you understand a writer's ignorance, presume yourself ignorant of his understanding'.. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
'Diplomacy, is the art of letting somebody else have your way.'.. David Frost
'A woman that does a mans work is just a lazy cow'.. Jo Brand
'Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons'.. Bertrand Russell