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'I have a memory like an elephant. In fact, elephants often consult me.'.. Noel Coward
'My whole life is waiting for the questions to which I have prepared answers.'.. Sir Tom Stoppard
'God is the perfect poet.'.. Robert Browning
'I don't pretend we have all the answers. But the questions are certainly worth thinking about.'.. Arthur C Clarke
'I took on the sins of everybody, of a generation, really'.. Christine Keeler
'There is a pleasure in being mad which none but madmen know.'.. John Dryden
'If you have men who will only come if they know there is a good road, I don't want them. I want men who will come if there is no road at all.'.. David Livingstone
'If a nation could not prosper without the enjoyment of perfect liberty and perfect justice, there is not in the world a nation which could ever have prospered.'.. Adam Smith
'I think we have all experienced passion that is not in any sense reasonable.'.. Stephen Fry
'Ending a sentence with a preposition is something up with which I will not put.'.. Winston Churchill
'The worst moment for the atheist is when he is really thankful and has nobody to thank.'.. Dante G Rossetti
'I always arrive late at the office, but I make up for it by leaving early.'.. Charles Lamb
'Being powerful is like being a lady. If you have to tell people you are, you aren't'.. Margaret Thatcher
'Remember the dignity of your womanhood. Do not appeal, do not beg, do not grovel. Take courage, join hands, stand beside us, fight with us.'.. Christabel Pankhurst
'May not the complaint, that common people are above their station, often take its rise in the fact of uncommon people being below theirs?'.. Charles Dickens
'I spent many years laughing at Harry Secombe's singing until somebody told me that it wasn't a joke.'.. Spike Milligan
'Better belly burst than good liquor be lost.'.. Jonathan Swift
'Kings govern by means of popular assemblies only when they cannot do without them'.. Charles James Fox
'It is better to lose health like a spendthrift than to waste it like a miser.'.. Robert Louis Stevenson
'Football wasn't meant to be run by linesmen and air traffic control.'.. Tommy Docherty
'He who laughs most, learns best.'.. John Cleese
'The light, that lies In woman's eyes, Has been my heart's undoing.'.. Thomas More
'Religion stands, the Church blocking the sun.'.. Stephen Spender
'It is the heart always that sees, before the head can see.'.. Thomas Carlyle
'Tolerance is another word for indifference.'.. Somerset Maugham
'That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons of history.'.. Aldous Huxley
'There is frequently more to be learned from the unexpected questions of a child than the discourses of men'.. John Locke
'One sometimes finds what one is not looking for.'.. Alexander Fleming
'The cruelest lies are often told in silence.'.. Robert Louis Stevenson
'Such as we are made of, such we be.'.. William Shakespeare